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is the 6700K more powerful than 3770K?

Yes, but its not worth it as an upgrade, unless you do something that requires all the new connectivity options from the mobo
 
Definitely more powerful clock for clock, but not by enough to be a worthwhile upgrade if you already have one.
 
I'm building a 3rd system rather than upgrading an existing one, so I grabbed a 6700K and Maximus VIII Impact and ran it side-by-side with my existing Sandy Bridge i5 2500 system. The Skylake is noticeably quicker in most things, but even against Sandy Bridge it's not big enough for the sheer expense if you're upgrading.

I still maintain that for a very similar amount of money it's better value to grab a 5820K and cheap X99 board rather than i7 6700K. The only reason I didn't is because I got a stonking deal on the Impact board that I just couldn't match for the Asrock X99-E ITX.
 
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Yes it is more powerful. It's 3 generations later, intel have slowed down, but not that much.

Is it worth upgrading if you overclock your 3770k? That's what you should be asking.
 
=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
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Yeah it might even come in cheaper than the 6700K did at launch.

The 6800K is the bottom tier of Broadwell -E. Priced circa £275 according to leaks. Like the 5820K before it.

6 cores / 8 threads. Quad channel memory support. Massive performance from leaked benchies. Def worth going for that over the 6700K imho. I know where my money would go anyway. Probably will go on it as well :P
 
a 3770k is still decent and will be for a good while yet. the thing is some newer games show advances some dont.

its all down to whether the game devs push on or not.

there is differences in other areas aswell. most people dont game 24/7 so that needs to be considered.
 
I have 3770K, yes 6700K is more powerful than 3770K.

Here was 6700K reviews posted in 2015 showed no difference in gaming performance but never showed actually power consumption at load until I saw hardwareunboxed.com review published on 19 April 2016 blew me away that 6700K is the highest gaming performance chip with the lowest power consumption.

Guess it bit too late for me to get 6700K now as Kaby Lake and Zen CPUs launch in Q4 2016, if sites back in 2015 published 6700K gaming power consumption just like hardwareunboxed.com and I would had bought 6700K in 2015.

I found interesting DigitalFoundry review on 8 March 2016 compared Skylake 6700K with Haswell-E CPUs in games. Surprised there was no difference with 4, 6, 8 cores and 6700K remained the highest performance chip with the lowest power consumption.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-what-is-the-fastest-gaming-cpu

Here probably still no difference with Skylake 6700K and Broadwell-E 6800K in games performance.
 
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