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i7-5820K or i7-6800K?

Currently the 6800k should be better for gaming, the 5820k better for video encoding.

I was saving for a 5820k system but ended up buying the 6800k this week instead. Reasons being that the motherboards and chips saved me about £100 and 16gig ram sticks dropped enough in price that only having 4 slots vs 8 didn't really matter any more.

Going forward though I suspect more cores will make more of a difference in more things but I'll just upgrade again in the future if I feel I need it and save £100 now.

Don't think overall there is much performance difference between them and both are very capable chips.
 
Grumbledook said:
Currently the 6800k should be better for gaming, the 5820k better for video encoding.

I was saving for a 5820k system but ended up buying the 6800k this week instead. Reasons being that the motherboards and chips saved me about £100 and 16gig ram sticks dropped enough in price that only having 4 slots vs 8 didn't really matter any more.

Going forward though I suspect more cores will make more of a difference in more things but I'll just upgrade again in the future if I feel I need it and save £100 now.

Don't think overall there is much performance difference between them and both are very capable chips.
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I think you mean 6700K and not 6800K
 
An overclocked 5820k is not bad for gaming, not thrown anything at mine yet that it hasn't ROFLCOPTER'ed, either rig will be beastly tho
 
Ah yeah I got the 6700k and 6800k muddled up. Apologies for that, I've not looked into it but I'd imagine the difference between the 6800k and 5820k is even less than compared to the 6700k.
 
5820k if decent will oc a little higher.in general.

gregster did a benchmark on firestrike i think it was and his scored 1200 at 4.4 . my 5820k at 4.6 scores 1326.

so not too much in it.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
5820k if decent will oc a little higher.in general.

gregster did a benchmark on firestrike i think it was and his scored 1200 at 4.4 . my 5820k at 4.6 scores 1326.

so not too much in it.
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He got 1213 in Cinebench R15, but my 5820K @ 4.5GHz got 1277 so doesn't look like there's any point in getting BW-E over HW-E especially as HW-E is a good bit cheaper. Glad I went with the 5820K over the 6800K - the Tom's Hardware review put me right off.
 
EvilSooty said:
He got 1213 in Cinebench R15, but my 5820K @ 4.5GHz got 1277 so doesn't look like there's any point in getting BW-E over HW-E especially as HW-E is a good bit cheaper. Glad I went with the 5820K over the 6800K - the Tom's Hardware review put me right off.
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yes a 5820k at right price is ideal at the moment.
 
Have been pondering this question myself over the past couple of days and I think it'll just come down to whatever the best deal/availability is on the day of purchase. Either will give great performance, especially for me coming from an ancient E8400!
 
5820k is the best option here for sure. So much more bang for buck. The BW E equivalent not clocking as high core and way off in cache.
 
littlepuppy said:
Can you decouple it?
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Cache is independent of core (has its own multplyer)

But Haswell will overclock cache better than Broadwell.

Haswell did get better overclocks over time, and OC socket helped cache overclock.
So you may see Broadwell get better with new steppings and motherboards.

Glad I went with 5820k in the end.
 
Broadwell -E will not be around for long this is as good as it gets the only improvements will be with the motherboard bios for over clocks. If buying to day I would stick with Haswell-E or wait it out for Skylake-E or X or what ever they are going to call it will be out in the new year.
 
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