lga 2011-v3 Gaming

[MalboroPirate]

I know this may have been asked somewhere before, but since this is my first time treading into intel waters i figured i'd ask. but i'm looking to play ARMA 3 and Battlefield one. I have no idea what i'm looking for in one of these processors.

 

[scuzzycard]

The 6-core CPUs are just fine for gaming - 5820K and 5930K are Haswell-E and the 6800K and 6850K are Broadwell-E. Haswell-E chips tend to overclock higher, but the new Broadwell-E chips have faster stock speeds, and are about 5% faster clock-for-clock. The 5930K and the 6850K have 40 PCI-E lanes versus 28 lanes for the other two and are required for 4-way SLI or, on some motherboards, 3-way SLI as well.

 

[Knox902]

If you are just gaming forget about 2011 and look to getting a 1151 z170 board with a 6700k. Price to performance you will end up with a faster system. Most games won't even look at anything beyond 4 cores. Dx12 and Vulcan are helping with this but we are not there yet.