I7 6700K For MULTITASKING???

[Iver Hicarte]

I know for a fact that the i7 6700k is a fast processor. But can it handle real life situations like multitasking??? For example: Rendering a 5 min 1080p 60 fps video in sony vegas in mp4 format while playing some games at the same time at ultra settings and at the same time again, encoding a video in handbrake at the mp4 format. Can the 6700k handle that kind of multitasking???

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

 

[Hlsgsz]

I know for a fact that the i7 6700k is a fast processor. But can it handle real life situations like multitasking??? For example: Rendering a 5 min 1080p 60 fps video in sony vegas in mp4 format while playing some games at the same time at ultra settings and at the same time again, encoding a video in handbrake at the mp4 format. Can the 6700k handle that kind of multitasking???

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

No, not really. It's too much. Reallistically though, those things should be done one at a time for effieciency.
Don't get me wrong, teh CPU will do all those things at once, but it will neither be efficient in tgoise rendering tasks nor will it game properly.

 

[Jan_26]

Those tasks will be seriously competing for resources. Especially since encoding last years scales across multiple cores really well.

You could do some tricks to push your chances higher by setting each demanding process priority and cpu affinity.

But still I'd agree with Hlsgsz - do those one at a time, you can also take advantage in scheduling the tasks and or putting them in a queue (handbrake supported a queue if I remember correctly).

 

[13thmonkey]

If you had a true 6/8 core machine (not an FX), you could use affinity to limit the number of cores handbrake uses, but it'll suck up all the resource it can.

 

[Cypherdude]

I know for a fact that the i7 6700k is a fast processor. But can it handle real life situations like multitasking??? For example: Rendering a 5 min 1080p 60 fps video in sony vegas in mp4 format while playing some games at the same time at ultra settings and at the same time again, encoding a video in handbrake at the mp4 format. Can the 6700k handle that kind of multitasking???

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

Why would you want to do all that simultaneously? You could render the 5 min video in Vegas and encode video in Handbrake simultaneously with an i7-6700K no problem. I could do that with my i7. Just make sure you have at least 16 GB RAM.

As for doing the gaming at max settings simultaneously, that would be NO. No system could do that, except maybe a 6 core i7-6850K because it runs at 3.6-3.8 GHz. The i7-6850K not only has 6 cores running at high speed, but the i7 6800K-6950K CPU's are quad channel RAM capable. The i7-6700K only runs in dual channel RAM.

If you had a Asus X99-E WS/USB 3.1 Motherboard and 4 of the fastest RAM sticks on it, 3200 MHZ, maybe. You would need 4 or 8 RAM sticks to run at quad channel speed. The fastest speed RAM the Asus X99-E WS/USB 3.1 Motherboard accepts is 3200 MHz.

Even with the above top performing components, you may get stuttering or dropped frames in your games. There's so much sharing of resources, memory controller, SSD controller, etc..., it may not work. However, with such a fast system, the rendering and encoding would finish very quickly while you're in your game and the stuttering or dropped frames would cease.

This is my desktop system. See the first and last minute.

 

[kanewolf]

Use task prioritization. Set the encoding and rendering to below normal priority so that they don't take as much resource. They will be preempted and won't accomplish as much of their job. Task prioritization in Windows is an underused capability IMO.

 

[Iver Hicarte]

Guys, I will mot be doing this tasks simultaneously. I'm just future proofing, if the i7 6700k can handle such multitasking. Anyways thanks for your informative answers!

 

[Hlsgsz]

Guys, I will mot be doing this tasks simultaneously. I'm just future proofing, if the i7 6700k can handle such multitasking. Anyways thanks for your informative answers!

Wel if those are the things you are interested in and you want to "future proof", have a look at the i7 6900K.