i7 6700k or i5 6600k or i7 4790k ? OMG

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So, i've been searching over and over again, which one should i take -_- since i have now i7 2600k, i kinda feel that i need new cpu now. So i've been searching and just cant decide since some1 says that 6700k is better then 4790k and others are just telling opposite ...

Im not sure, but in my country i cant find 6700k, so dunno should 6700 be enought?

In few tests i saw that 4790k is better then 6700k and for gaming ( what will i do the most ) gets 5 fps more ?

Dunno now should i mybe considere to get i5 6600k, since performance is almost the same for i7 6700k ?

I have by my side, gtx 980 ti g1, 16 gb of ram, 800w power and now just need mobo + cpu. Help me plz


99% of the time is GAMING and Streaming.
 
Since either machine will require a motherboard upgrade, you might as well get the 6700K. It might perform slightly lower in some games, but the difference is usually minimal, and going with the 6700K means you get the more modern platform which much more connectivity.

Either one of the 6700K, 6700, or 6600K should work fine. The 6700 is a locked version of the 6700K, so you cannot overclock it, but that is basically the only difference. The 6600K, on the other hand, does not have hyper-threading. Thus, although it will probably perform better than your 2600K in most daily tasks, it will actually perform worse in some scenarios.

However, since you already have RAM, you might want to take that into account. The 6000 series only works with DDR4 RAM (and some weird varieties of DDR3). So the old RAM from your 2600K won't work; you'll need to buy new. The 4790K does use DDR3; this would be about the only advantage to choosing the 4790K.

Also take into account that, in most cases, the difference between your current CPU and these new ones is very small. Only very specific games will benefit noticeably from it.
 
The i5 6600k will do the job almost as good as the i7s in gaming, because games don't profit that much from hyperthreading.

But if you got the money to spend go i7-6700k. It's better than the 4790k and will be the fastest one overall, even in games.
I wouldn't go for the 4790k in this situation, because there is already a newer i7. Except if you get it like for half the price of the 6700k.

Difference between these 3 will be minimal in gaming but it's: 6700k > 4790k > 6600k

Soooo, not wanting to spend that much: 6600k
Money doesn't matter: 6700k
 
I would agree, the op is already using an i7 and if streaming may be using the hyperthreading. There's very little difference between the 4790k and 6700k, depending on price difference in their region a 4790k could be cheaper and give basically the same performance as the 6700k. Not to mention being able to reuse the ram.

Prices may be more favorable in other places but going on u.s. prices, the 5820k would be a better option yet. As mentioned an upgrade of any sort would require a new motherboard. For heavy multitasking the 5820k would be the best choice if it's competitive in price where the op is at. It too would require ddr4 ram and would benefit in a 4way kit (4x4gb for 16gb of ram) since the x99 runs memory in quad channel. The 5820k on pcpartpicker is less than the 6700k in not just the u.s. but in gbp and euro's as well. Skylake has been having a supply issue and their prices are ridiculous.
 
It is more then just a CPU upgrade it's a platform upgrade he's be able to make good use of M.2 SSDs and and they have additional PCI-E lanes so he can real get one screaming. Check out the specs on the Samsung 950 Pro.

Just to further muddy water how about a i7-5820K Haswell E 2011-3 set-up. That is a six core with hyper threading and it is cheaper then the 6th gens and you can overclock the heck out of it.
 
Well im streaming alot with arround 5-6 programs in the background. The thing is, sinc im in retarded country, we dont havr here ( YET ) k version of 6700, so dunno should i take only 6700 with z170 mobo ?

4790k = 360 euros
6700 = 350 euros

So what should i do now ??
 


4790k for sure.
Higher clock rates from the factory (K CPUs are always clocked higher) plus you can OC even more.
And you don't need new RAM. 😛
So it's faster and in the end even a lot cheaper. :)
 
The cpu may not be cheaper but the 6700 isn't clocked as fast as the 4790k and since you won't have to buy new ram with the 4790k the final price will be cheaper. 4790k + reusing old ram = 360 euro, 6700 + ddr4 ram you have to buy = maybe 380 euro. There are z97 motherboards that handle m.2 and sata express drives also. Skylake does have higher speed m.2 support but not many m.2 drives out there and not many people using them.

Skylake's filled with a lot of good theories just not a whole lot of practicality or performance in practice over haswell, especially for the higher cost associated with it. A 6700 and 4790k aren't really apples to apples, a 4790 and 6700 would be closer and chances are the 4790 is cheaper since it's a non k also. Pcpartpicker's lineup of parts/price for euro (deutschland) has similar prices to the op.

4790k - 348 euro
6700 - 328 euro
6700k - 419 euro

The only reason the prices are so close is comparing the previous faster k series to the newer non k slower i7.

Edit: given those prices, I'd go with the 4790k, the 5820k turns out to be much differently priced and doesn't provide the same value it does in other regions. Since you need a pc so soon that seems to be the best choice of the two in my opinion. Newer/slower isn't worth it over slightly older but faster. Even taking into account ipc improvements, the stock clock speed of the 4790k already makes up for it even before overclocking it.
 
I agree with the general conclusion to go with the 4790K. If you're doing fine with your current system, you won't miss a lot of the things in the Skylake motherboards. You are also not rendering or anything like that, so going for a 5820K would be rather overkill, but streaming definitely benefits from the extra cores, so you'll still want hyper-threading. The 4790K seems like a good choice, then.