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Gaming cpu

Donzie

Donzie

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Guys building my first gaming pc and was wondering what would be better for it.
Proformance over price at this moment in time.
i7 6700k 4.0ghz or i7 5930k 3.5ghz.
Will be mainly for AAA titles such as battlefront and fallout 4 for example.

Thanks very much for anyone's help.
 
Maybe look at a 5820K? Cheaper than the 6700K, will probably OC to near the same level, and has 2 extra cores for when/if games use more cores?

Could use the extra £60 saved for a better gfx card etc?
 
The 5820K is cheaper than the 6700K, but what motherboard have you got?

Both run on different sockets so bare that in mind when considering, a 2011 mobo is going to cost you on average almost double what a 1151 will, and you'll also have to get DDR4 RAM if you havent already (which, granted, is not all that much more expensive than DDR3)
 
Tropicocity said:
The 5820K is cheaper than the 6700K, but what motherboard have you got?

Both run on different sockets so bare that in mind when considering, a 2011 mobo is going to cost you on average almost double what a 1151 will, and you'll also have to get DDR4 RAM if you havent already (which, granted, is not all that much more expensive than DDR3)
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A decent z170 board is a lot more than half the price of a comparable x99 board
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Ocuk prices

X99 most expensive (excl dual socket board as not comparable) £ 410 x99 godlike

Z170 most expensive £420, GA-Z170X-Gaming G1

Ocuk have a limited range if x99 boards available but other boards can be had elsewhere starting at about £160, cheapest z170 I just under £100 here. Given that an i7 skylake 6700k is about £60-100 more expensive when in stock there is very little to recommend an i7 skylake with a small per core clock/ipc advantage over a haswell-e chip with a superior motherboard chipset, core and thread count

David Bisset said:
5820k is enough cheaper that you can get an appropriate mobo and have change left over, as even the cheap 2011-3 ones are high-end.
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This as well
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
6700k is better for gaming and the 5820 is not going to clock as high as the i7.
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6700 gets about 4.6ghz average overclocked 5820k gets about 4.5ghz so they clock pretty much the same. Moat games they perform pretty much the same.

Few games that can use more than 4 cores the 5820k will be better.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
6700k is better for gaming and the 5820 is not going to clock as high as the i7.
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Load of crap. Skylake clocks marginally higher than the 5820k. It's minuscule. 5820k won't bottleneck you for a long time, so 'better for gaming' only exists in synthetic benchmarks.

If anything the 5820k will start to shine in a year or two due to DX12. Consoles run on 6 cores+ so ports will no doubt make use of that where they can.
 
Wrong, clear advantage to skylake over haswell in a number of games in the tests below, large increase in some games. So yeah higher IPC over them extra two cores you will never likely use whilst gaming.

 
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The CPU is not the bottleneck, the GPU is.

Buying into skylake when its so expensive is pretty stupid. You say cores but again, if he plans to keep the CPU for a few years, then DX12 will likely bring 6 cores into the mix, because again, that's what the consoles use and a big part of DX12 is getting devs to utilise them all fully, which will carry over to the PC.
 
OP is also building his first rig, so he's a big of a greenhorn by thinking of the 5930k in the first place.

He'd be better off getting a 4790k and using the saved money towards more GPU grunt imo.
 
Personally Ive ended up going 5820k route. Got a price of £270 for one delivered which I think seems fair. By far the most ive ever sunk on a cpu but it seems to be the best to go for.
 
Tephnos said:
OP is also building his first rig, so he's a big of a greenhorn by thinking of the 5930k in the first place.

He'd be better off getting a 4790k and using the saved money towards more GPU grunt imo.
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I don't need any GPU I have 3 Titan X at my disposal. Why I want to build my own I have upgraded all my old pc just part by part but I want to move up from 1150 low end to a better cpu and motherboard. The whole part of the debate of the 5930k is the extra 40 lanes over the 16 of skylakes for gaming. As I would buy the Asus x99-we to take advantage of the lanes to run at 16 each.
 
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