Intel i7-5820K vs Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Kabylake

[Azcexk]

like the title says which one should i get i dont care about the budget i just need a good processor that will not bottle neck whit the zotac 1080 AMP extreme im building a rig that will be used for the next 3-4 years and then i will upgrade but i will upgrade the little stuff

 

[mcconkeymike]

I'm wanting to see what people have to say about this as well. I've been contemplating the 5820k for a while myself.

 

[Azcexk]

I'm wanting to see what people have to say about this as well. I've been contemplating the 5820k for a while myself.

yeah i just need something good because i have an AMD FX8320 and it will bottleneck whit my zotac 1080 amp extreme

 

[mcconkeymike]

Oh yeah, the 8320 will bottleneck the hell out of the GTX 1080. I hope that you are at least running 1440p or 4k with that, otherwise you are kind of wasting your 1080.

 

[gillhooley]

What are you doing with the PC? Gaming 6700k has higher clock and will blow away the 5820K for most games as the 6 cores are not optimized. If you are doing a bunch of productivity and rendering work the 5820K is the way to go as the extra cores and threads are going to crush the 4 core 6700K.

 

[Azcexk]

Oh yeah, the 8320 will bottleneck the hell out of the GTX 1080. I hope that you are at least running 1440p or 4k with that, otherwise you are kind of wasting your 1080.

i guess i still have nothing in mind for the 1080 but i will come up whit something

 

[Eximo]

From all reviews thus far it looks like the i7-7700k and i7-6700k are indistinguishable when run at the same clock speed. The 7700k does have the advantage of a guaranteed 4.5Ghz boost clock, though a few reviewers managed 5Ghz out of it. Reviews of retail processors that were sent as samples was somewhat less good.

For the majority of contemporary games those fast cores will come in handy.

The 5820k or 6800k don't offer much in my opinion. You get the extra cores, but with less potential overclock, but not the all the extra PCIe lanes. 5830k or 6850k is a good choice if you plan on a lot of GPUs and/or expansion cards and really need the quad channel memory. But they are more power hungry, so cooling is a factor when it comes to overclocking.

200 series motherboards offer some more features as standard, but a few out there are neat, with up to 3 M.2 slots. Looks like they are all competing for the LED lighting effects and, on a few boards, lots of onboard fan control.

 

[Azcexk]

From all reviews thus far it looks like the i7-7700k and i7-6700k are indistinguishable when run at the same clock speed. The 7700k does have the advantage of a guaranteed 4.5Ghz boost clock, though a few reviewers managed 5Ghz out of it. Reviews of retail processors that were sent as samples was somewhat less good.

For the majority of contemporary games those fast cores will come in handy.

The 5820k or 6800k don't offer much in my opinion. You get the extra cores, but with less potential overclock, but not the all the extra PCIe lanes. 5830k or 6850k is a good choice if you plan on a lot of GPUs and/or expansion cards and really need the quad channel memory. But they are more power hungry, so cooling is a factor when it comes to overclocking.

200 series motherboards offer some more features as standard, but a few out there are neat, with up to 3 M.2 slots. Looks like they are all competing for the LED lighting effects and, on a few boards, lots of onboard fan control.

well i just need 1 GPU which will be the zotac 1080 amp and i dont plan on having 2 of them which one is the best in your opinion for gaming and 4K?

 

[Eximo]

Well I don't recommend trying 4K gaming with a single 1080, since it just isn't quite up to the task. If you don't mind tweaking settings down, and running some games at lower resolutions you can always get a more powerful GPU later on.

But for a single GPU system, the i7-6700k or i7-7700k are ideal.

i7-7700k and a Z270 motherboard is probably going to be on the order of 20% more expensive than an equivalent i7-6700k and a Z170.

 

[Azcexk]

Well I don't recommend trying 4K gaming with a single 1080, since it just isn't quite up to the task. If you don't mind tweaking settings down, and running some games at lower resolutions you can always get a more powerful GPU later on.

But for a single GPU system, the i7-6700k or i7-7700k are ideal.

i7-7700k and a Z270 motherboard is probably going to be on the order of 20% more expensive than an equivalent i7-6700k and a Z170.

nah i dont care about the price ill take the i7-7700k and i want to get the asus strix