I7-6700HQ vs i7-6820HK

[Andr3w]

Evening,

Is there much of a difference between the i7-6700HQ and the i7-6820HK for a laptop?

All I've managed to find out so far is that the 6820HK is good for overclocking - which I won't be doing in my laptop (just gaming with a 1070)!

 

[Andrei23]

As it's such a PITA to replace components on a laptop and in some cases almost impossible to do so, it might be a better strategy in the long run to pay a bit more and get a more powerful CPU to start with.

 

[kaku]

i7-6820HK has +100MHz base and boost bump over i7-6700HQ (also +2MB cache), and can be overclocked too.

How useful that will be to you in a laptop is debatable. Personally things that would swing it for me would be available laptop chassis and price difference.

 

[alex_123_fra]

I'm still rocking a i7 2920xm overclocked to 4GHz and it works fine. Have upgraded GPU about 4 times in the same laptop with a 980m geing the latest. If you don't want to become CPU-bound (bearing in mind laptop GPUs have come on massively in the last couple of years), get the overclockable CPU.