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6700 non K vs 5820k

Soldato
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In the process of slowly building up a new PC for myself I currently have a 5820k @4.4Ghz ,32gb ram top end board and 1080ti . My kids currently have a 6700 non k 16gb ram R9 290x they game at 1080p and I'm not looking to change that anytime soon and I'm keeping my 1080ti for a while(until getting a 3000 series is easier) . Is it worth me swapping them over to my 5820k for when they end up with 1080ti eventually or do you think the 6700 non k will suffice. It would literally be drop my mobo and cpu into their case they currently have everything already including a big enough PSU

They are 6 and 7 so PC time is heavily supervised and consists of a mix of work related and creativity and some mild gaming such as lego and racing games and they aren't really of an age where framerate is priority. As long as a game is playable they don't seem to mind if it's on minimum or maximum settings.

The surplus of whatever is decided will be sold and the funds used to help with the costs of my upgrade.
 
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I can't be sure but I can't imagine it is worth doing - unless you get really lucky with overclocking BCLK and all core turboing probably won't get your much more per thread performance vs an overclocked 5820K and some games are starting to see a benefit from the extra cores such as Cyberpunk 2077.
 
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In the process of slowly building up a new PC for myself I currently have a 5820k @4.4Ghz ,32gb ram top end board and 1080ti . My kids currently have a 6700 non k 16gb ram R9 290x they game at 1080p and I'm not looking to change that anytime soon and I'm keeping my 1080ti for a while(until getting a 3000 series is easier) . Is it worth me swapping them over to my 5820k for when they end up with 1080ti eventually or do you think the 6700 non k will suffice. It would literally be drop my mobo and cpu into their case they currently have everything already including a big enough PSU

They are 6 and 7 so PC time is heavily supervised and consists of a mix of work related and creativity and some mild gaming such as lego and racing games and they aren't really of an age where framerate is priority. As long as a game is playable they don't seem to mind if it's on minimum or maximum settings.

The surplus of whatever is decided will be sold and the funds used to help with the costs of my upgrade.


it depends up until a couple of months ago I was running the i5-6600 and they would run 99% of the games I wanted to play the only time it would struggle was on massive online shooters like bf5 and warzone

neither suitable for children under 16 tbh

the 6700 will run lego and racing games perfectly
 
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With 6 cores the 5820 will last longer, so if it was me, I'd sell the 6700.

The only negative I can think of, is that since it's HEDT the 5820 system's power consumption will likely be higher, at idle and load.
 
Soldato
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You also get 28 PCIe gen 3 lanes with the 5820 and quad channel RAM. The X99 mobo will probably be better as well. I use a 5930K for my work pc, dont play games on it any more though and run at stock.
I did mess with the BIOS and accidentally set it so it boosted to 4.6Ghz once and it did a super PI 1M in 8.5s which is fast so if you clock the 5820 it should be better for games that dont use many threads and much better for ones that do.
 
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5820k is better but funnily enough it fetches less second hand. 50 -60 quid for a 5820k. 6700 non k fetches 60 -80.

sell the 6700 keep the 5820k. its still a good gaming cpu overclocked its similar to a stock 8700k. just under a 3600.
 
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5820k is better but funnily enough it fetches less second hand. 50 -60 quid for a 5820k. 6700 non k fetches 60 -80.

sell the 6700 keep the 5820k. its still a good gaming cpu overclocked its similar to a stock 8700k. just under a 3600.

I know it can reach 4.4Ghz without much fuss and with 2 extra cores I suppose your right. It makes sense to keep the 5820k long term.
 
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