Question I5-6600K (but not a Z motherboard) vs. OCed 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Gen CPUs (kids gaming lab) ?

[Titanion]

I am adding an i5-6600K / 16GB DDR4 (Default 3.5 GHz + Turbo, B250 chipset) based computer to my gaming lab (for older games), and I am wondering where this will be in a hierarchy compared with overclocked quad core 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation based computers (i5-2500K, i5-3570K, i5-4670K, i7-4770K). These other computers are all overclocked to 4.4ish GHz with 16GB+ of DDR3 ram.

With all other factors being equal, just pretend, are they all going to be better than the stock 6600K with DDR4? Or are there newer games that just will do better even with a slower CPU speed but with the newer Skylake and the faster DDR4 ram. I have a couple GTX 1070s that I move to the better gaming machines.

I'm still thinking the i5-3570K and i5-4670K, definitely i7-4770K, at 4.4 GHz will be better that the i5-6600K at 3.5+. Which would you put the GTX 1070 into? Thanks

 

[CelicaGT]

It's gonna depend on each application (game). But for the most part clockspeed is king for what you are doing. I'm not sure what 3.5+ Ghz is going to translate into in use but my 6700HQ (3.5Ghz single core boost IIRC) in my laptop got shown the door by my 4790K at 4.7Ghz all core OC. Set up the rigs, throw some benches at them and leave the 1070's in the winners. Might be a fun time.

 

[boju]

Better ipc of the 6600k, at base speed, and faster ddr4 ram is probably going to be better vs older overclocked i5s. The i7 with extra threads could make decisions more interesting, in older and also newer titles. I'd say 4770k would have the edge where multi threaded loads are concerned.

Motherboard for 6600k, I'm assuming less miles on the clock, could be a consideration too. If you already have the systems then yeah do what @CelicaGT suggested and bench a winner.

 

[TerryLaze]

I'm still thinking the 3570K and 4570K, definitely 4770K, at 4.4 GHz will be better that the 6600K at 3.5+.

It will probably be at 3.9 ,so at full turbo, all the time during games, it will only drop below that on demanding things.

I think they will all be around the same with differences only noticeable in benchmarks, especially with a weaker card like the 1070.

 

[thestryker]

AVX2 was introduced with Haswell which makes anything quad core 4th Gen+ not too bad for all sorts of gaming. 6th Gen is probably going to be faster than anything before 4th Gen (unless your older CPUs are 4c/8t then there would likely be an advantage when a workload goes over 4 cores).