Prebuilt rig decision for a gaming friend.

Karateyid · 14 Oct 2015 at 19:21

I've posted earlier about a mate who wants to update his rig.. He only games on it and doesn't doe any video encoding or anything fancy... Purely as a gaming machine which of these 2 would you pick??

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-125-OG&groupid=43&catid=2475&subcat=2485 I5 6600K

or
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-122-OG&groupid=43&catid=2475&subcat=3082 I7 5820

budget is pretty much the same..

wellibob · 14 Oct 2015 at 19:27

Pure Gaming Skylake. Everything else X99.

mickyflinn · 14 Oct 2015 at 20:45

At that price point the 5820k would be my choice, i7 over i5 plus 8gb ram more.

Karateyid · 15 Oct 2015 at 08:29

Was kinda leaning towards the haswell e build.. he's going to have it for a few years by which time I guess they will have released some games that utilise more cores..