Looking to buy a gaming PC £850

You really should read the FAQs a couple more times, especially the competitors parts. Anyway, if you want a gaming pc, 6600k will do the job, pair it with your existing gpu, 8 gigs of ram and a evga or a superflower of 550-650 watts and you'll be golden. When new gpus come out, upgrade that if you want.

If you are talking about a content creation pc, i doubt 850 money will cut it :/

Edit: buy a aio if it's a 240, I've seen good air coolers perform same as more expensive 120 aio ones
 
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I think this one should probably just be chalked up as "ignorant, beyond help" and left to die.
It's been explained multiple times that a 6 core setup for gaming will only be worthwhile if the extra PCIe lanes are needed (which without SLI, they aren't) and the X99 is going to be hamstringing his setup as it won't overclock. Games still work better with faster single cores but...
Then all the competitor naming, even after it's pointed out.

There's some folks just won't even remotely be reasoned with.
 
The 6 core Intel Core i7 5820K will only offer limited performance increase in a few titles but very few and far between compared to the mainstream Intel Core i7 6700K and we will only be talking about 2-4 FPS increase (Microsoft Flight Simulator X jumps to mind), Also in no competitors names or prices on this forum please as it has been pointed out to you a number of times.

The biggest single part that will effect your gaming performance is the graphics card that is in the system which in your current spec isn't listed, which I personally find very strange as it only total's around the £700 mark currently. You will need some kind of discreet graphic's if you do with the X99 platform as well because the last time I checked they don't have an integrated graphic processing unit on the CPU where as the Intel Core i7 6700K does (the onboard is not really suitable for gaming either on that note but does sometimes come in handy for fault finding).
 
Ethermaster said:
The 6 core Intel Core i7 5820K will only offer limited performance increase in a few titles but very few and far between compared to the mainstream Intel Core i7 6700K and we will only be talking about 2-4 FPS increase (Microsoft Flight Simulator X jumps to mind), Also in no competitors names or prices on this forum please as it has been pointed out to you a number of times.

The biggest single part that will effect your gaming performance is the graphics card that is in the system which in your current spec isn't listed, which I personally find very strange as it only total's around the £700 mark currently. You will need some kind of discreet graphic's if you do with the X99 platform as well because the last time I checked they don't have an integrated graphic processing unit on the CPU where as the Intel Core i7 6700K does (the onboard is not really suitable for gaming either on that note but does sometimes come in handy for fault finding).
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I have the XFX R7970 I'm using right now

For more info on specs
http://www.passmark.com/index.html

might go with Asus X99 RAMPAGE V EXTREME rank 11 in http://www.passmark.com/baselines/top.html
 
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jedipower said:
I have the XFX R7970 I'm using right now

For more info on specs
http://www.passmark.com/index.html
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You didn't make that point clear and I'm well aware of the spec's of the AMD HD7970 thanks :)

I personally would be looking to upgrade from that card, its getting very long in the tooth now as well and performs around the GTX 960 mark, maybe rather then buying a new PC just an upgrade would have a better return in terms of price to performance. This is depend though solely on your current configuration.
 
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