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Bang for the buck
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6600k if going consumer lineup 5820k if going enthusiast. 6700k has become a far better bet since it can now be consistently had for sub £290 with the 5820k creeping up to £330+
6700k/ z170 leaves you with no likely meaningful upgrade route though. As the drop in top flight kabylake CPU will be another 4c/8t CPU on the same 14nm process with a slightly tweaked design (probably comparable to the 4770k to 4790k....)
6700k/ z170 leaves you with no likely meaningful upgrade route though. As the drop in top flight kabylake CPU will be another 4c/8t CPU on the same 14nm process with a slightly tweaked design (probably comparable to the 4770k to 4790k....)
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Might depend how long your intending to 'game' on and what you play. I remember people saying that a quad core q6600 was poor value for gaming because you could buy a cheaper dual core e 8400 which clocked higher and performed better in some games at the time. In the long run the q6600 had far more longevity. When cannonlake comes out in 2017 high end mainstream gpu's will be 6+ cores and you'll be stuck with quad cores on z170. Before I bought my x99 setup I had an x58 setup when if I had gone cheaper at the time I could have gone for an i7 1156 chip. The latter would not have tided me over till x99 however so would have cost me more overall.
If you buying a well featured mother board then x99 wont cost much more than a 6700k/z170 setup. In games and apps where an oc skylake excels an oc 5820k is right behind I but where the 5820k excels it pulls far away from an oc'd 6700k
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Yup
This is something I've come to realise too late. Wish I had thought that through better. Very nearly went X99 as well.
That said, I'm sure the 6700k will be fine fort gaming for quite a while yet.
That is a bit of an anomaly though and you sacrifice future bios updates and it wont be available for too much longer... Intel stamped down on that one pretty quick, you may as well now pay £40 more and get a 6600k that will have a better resale value and no headaches down the line if you need to update your bios to get something to work (who remembers needing a bios update to get a 970/980gtx to work?) Sure if your talking processing power per pound a more lowly chip may win out but it will also hit the buffers far quicker in terms of performance. The 5820k is hardly poor value for money if you give it a suitable application and when you factor in bang for the buck in terms of longevity will last a lot longer than a cheap and cheerful combo bought today that will need to be replaced in a year to 18 months....
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A lot of games coming out now and in the near future are quad core minimum. The op doesn't say what 'bang for the buck' he's talking about but as this is an enthusiast web site its not unreasonable to assume that the chip should be competently run modern games and apps at a reasons min resolution ( 1080 today). If a CPU cant even run modern games and apps then its pretty poor vfm.....
Good luck getting support if you have a problem with a new card or bit of software down the line. Intel most certainly did stamp it out.. No new motherboards are being made with the bios necessary to oc these chips
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