6600k vs 6700k Coming from 4790k

[Daniel Woodward]

Hi All,

I just wanted some other opinions on this as I am having trouble deciding what to do. I am currently running a 2 year old 4790k Z97 based system but I am soon upgrading to a Z170 based system with more RAM and the ability to have a full speed NVMe SSD installed along with the ability to do SLI which I am currently lacking.

However I am having a hard time deciding whether to splash the extra and get a 6700k vs a 6600k. From all of the bench marks and stuff the 6600k seems to be similar in performance to my current 4790k which is already beyond my needs, but is their any reason I should consider the 6700k at all? Almost every review seems to put it the same as the 6600k but more expensive.

I was just wondering what everyone else thought about it....

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I don't think at this point it's worth the jump.

 

[Daniel Woodward]

I don't think at this point it's worth the jump.

So you don't think it is worth upgrading at all or you just don't think the £100 jump from the 6600k to the 6700k isn't worth it?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I don't think it's worth it , not yet the 4790k is still a top tier CPU.

 

[InvalidError]

If you want a meaningful upgrade for an i7-4790k, you should look at the i7-6850k. Anything less is a sidegrade at best.

Unless you are continuously doing IO-intensive stuff, you will gain very little real-world performance from going from 6Gbps SATA to 4xPCIe 2.0 NVMe, and even less from PCIe 2.0 to 3.0 NVMe.

Unless you have maxed out your motherboard's memory configuration (32GB for four DDR3 DIMMs), I'd simply upgrade that and call it a day instead of spending $300+ on a new platform to gain less than 10% worth of performance.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Contains a good overall comparison of many CPU's.
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVErmVESTBM"][/video]

 

[frank_hnd]

like you said, your current build is already more than enough for your needs. no need to upgrade anytime soon.
a regular 6Gbps SSD if all the luxury you need. cutting down 10secs (HDD) to 2secs (SSD) is a good difference, but cutting down 2Secs to 1Sec (NVMe) it not worth it at the moment, specially with the prices for those drives.