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6800k or 7700k

6700k and spend rest on cooling. My 6700k @ 4.7 with my gtx1080 run so well, I just can't imagine things getting much better. BF1 runs so well I have to sometimes double check that the settings are maxed out. For anything where two extra cores will be beneficial, you could probably just wait a few seconds more.
 
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IvanDobskey said:
As Although as we already know, it's just a slightly higher clocked 6700k...
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Is that really the case though? Just like Pascal is Maxwell refresh according to some :).

For gaming, personally, you can't go wrong with a 7700k. It'll be the safe option too vs the AMD unknowns until they're proven. Problem is, the 7700k probably won't be good value. It wasn't that long ago Haswell-E was recommended over the 6700K due to the pricing of those but with recently price drops the 6700K has recently been in the right zone vs the current expensve Skylake-E range.

I watched a video recently showing in some games how much the current chips perform in games and it can be much more than the 2-5% increases people keep talking about each gen, ie, 30%+ performance can been seen between the 3700k and 6700k in some games apparently which conflicts with the 2-5% increase in performance some call out when a new chip arrives. I guess the latest tech will always work better with the latest other tech too (cpu, mem, gpu etc)
 
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