6700k vs 6600k

[clone38]

I'm heading towards the 6600k as it will be for gaming almost got the funds but with the shops taking the mick with the price.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Cheers for the quick reply! Just watched another digital foundry video again where they put the i5 OC against previous i7's (stock) and I find it impressively pulls ahead of them. I'm leaning more and more towards the i5-6600K myself as well. Hope you'll get your right together soon mate! And when you do, do tell how you like it.

There are only a few chips available here, and at a premium because of it. I'll wait.

What motherboard you'll get? Going for the Asus Maximus VIII Hero myself. Put some G.Skill Trident Z in too - of it becomes more available too, not many sell it and there seems to be little to no stock at the moment.

 

[clone38]

I've already got the Gigabyte z170 gaming 7,got a free stick of 8gb 2600 corsair ram and I've bought another 8gb for it plus gigabyte offer a 4 yr warranty with this board

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Excellent! What resolution are you on?

 

[clone38]

2560x1440

 

[TheF34RChannel]

What I have on my wishlist as well. 144Hz?

 

[clone38]

Yeh it the Asus MG279Q ips monitor,had the rog swift before it but I wanted to try a ips monitor and boy I'm glad I have the colours are way better and it games the same ,so buttery smooth with the Titan X sc.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

However it's a Freesync monitor and you have an Nvidia card?

 

[clone38]

Yup it is ,reason why I sold the rog swift I didn't see any difference running g-sync on or off and the money I got for it payed for the new one.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Ah right. Good that you're happy with the purchase!

 

[Kaapstad]

Cheers for the quick reply! Just watched another digital foundry video again where they put the i5 OC against previous i7's (stock) and I find it impressively pulls ahead of them. I'm leaning more and more towards the i5-6600K myself as well. Hope you'll get your right together soon mate! And when you do, do tell how you like it.

There are only a few chips available here, and at a premium because of it. I'll wait.

What motherboard you'll get? Going for the Asus Maximus VIII Hero myself. Put some G.Skill Trident Z in too - of it becomes more available too, not many sell it and there seems to be little to no stock at the moment.

CPU comparisons should really be done at the same clockspeed or they can be very misleading.

There is another review site that does a lot of CPU comparisons where the newer more expensive ones get much higher fps when gaming but this is mostly down to the clockspeed. If all the CPUs were run at say 4.0ghz a lot of the fps advantages would be gone.

 

[clone38]

I would like to have the 6700k but the price is mad and I can't wait for it to come down,a 6600k a 4.5gz will do me I've found one for sale at £203(£212) delivered ,there is a guy selling oem 6600ks on another forum but they just don't warrant the price he's asking for them.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Absolutely true Kaapstad! My interest in the digital foundry vids is purely because they make the CPUs the bottleneck; I realise it doesn't represent a real life gaming scenario.

Clone: I think it will be a long while yet until the price of the i7 comes down to sensible levels, and can understand you cannot wait. As is, it's severely overpriced! Surely the i5 will do you good! And maybe you can do what I hope to do; chuck in a Kaby Lake i7 if it's affordable - and a proper boost with its HT in the first place.

 

[clone38]

The only reason I say that I can't wait any longer is I'm on a backup PC and the g850 cpu is killing my Titan X sc and I've got the money for the 6600k as I've never had a i5 I'm not sure if it suit me.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

I suspect you won't notice the difference when gaming is your thing, compared to an i7, if some of the solid reviews are to be believed. Your GPU will be the single most important thing still. Do give the i5 a nice overclock though! I've never had an i5 either but think I'll be alright for some time to come.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I suspect you won't notice the difference when gaming is your thing, compared to an i7, if some of the solid reviews are to be believed. Your GPU will be the single most important thing still. Do give the i5 a nice overclock though! I've never had an i5 either but think I'll be alright for some time to come.

He will with that CPU. That one part of Sandy iirc and is only a dual core. Upgrading to the newest quad core would really help push the TX further. Now if he upgraded from a quad core sandy to a Skylake quad core, the difference wouldn't be that noticeable but in Xfire/SLI it would help with frametimes- not enough to warrant an upgrade though.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

He will with that CPU. That one part of Sandy iirc and is only a dual core. Upgrading to the newest quad core would really help push the TX further. Now if he upgraded from a quad core sandy to a Skylake quad core, the difference wouldn't be that noticeable but in Xfire/SLI it would help with frametimes- not enough to warrant an upgrade though.

That's what I meant, the difference between the i5 and i7 Skylake, not his current back up chip - I should have been more specific. I feared going from an i7 SB to an i5 SL would be a performance hit of sorts, but I've come back from that thought currently.

 

[NeverBackDown]

That's what I meant, the difference between the i5 and i7 Skylake, not his current back up chip - I should have been more specific. I feared going from an i7 SB to an i5 SL would be a performance hit of sorts, but I've come back from that thought currently.

Ah then my bad, just read it wrong probably. You would certainly get a performance boost jumping from the SB to SL but it's not enough at all to warrant the asking price of SL

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Would that still be true, in your opinion, for going from an i7 SB to an i5 SL, and the price the i5 SL is? I'm not sure what parts you're referring to with each statement?

 

[NeverBackDown]

The performance of the I5 SL is more than likely faster than a I7 SB. Idk how much as I haven't looked into specifics but it is faster. Now to upgrade from SB to SL, since it is indeed faster is not worth it due to the asking price of SL since they are inflated above there standard price. Hopefully that made more sense