Will i5 6600K at it stock speeds bottleneck a GTX 1070 factory OC card?

[roogac]

As the title says, I am curious will the mentioned processor bottleneck a GTX 1070 factory oc-ed card? Would I be better off buying and 6700K and overclocking it? Will I get any more significant performance with 6700K (maybe better 0.1% lows) or is it just not worth buying purely for gaming and ocassional streaming?

 

[N3rdR4ge]

for purely for gaming and ocassional streaming, not worth it getting the 6700. you'd be fine with even a 6500 or 6600 if you arent overclocking. the 6500 is a better value. yes the 6700 will give you a a frame boost here and there. but, if your gonna dump another $100 in the cpu, why not do another $90, a lower chip and get a 1080?. that will give you a much better boost gaming wise. the cpu will cost much less to upgrade later.

GOOD gaming:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($339.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB G1 Gaming Video Card ($429.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $769.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-03 11:21 EDT-0400

GREAT gaming:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($204.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 8GB G1 Gaming Video Card ($654.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $859.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-03 11:21 EDT-0400

 

[Robert Cook]

if you are just gaming get an i5, if you want to stream you will need the i7, as you need extra CPU threads. at stock clocks and 1080p there will be a slight holdback in the most CPu demading games, but the beauty of the 600K is that is overclocks well, so getting to to 4.5 is easy and then it is perfect for any gaming. the 6700K at stock might not even cause a noticeable bottleneck, in many it will not. once again it OCs pretty well though.

 

[InvalidError]

The 6700k won't be significantly better than the 6600k for regular gaming. Since it sounds like you already own the 6600k, I wouldn't bother swapping it out.

If you don't already own either chip, then your best bet for bang-per-buck would be to wait for Zen and hope it at least forces a shakedown of Intel's pricing structure.

 

[roogac]

I will overclock 6600K when i get the money for watercooler. If i would be choosing 6700K I would have to wait another few months to get some more money down the road. So, I am asking if it is worth it to buy 6600K now, or wait a couple of months and buy 6700K and watercooler at the same time. For a start, I would just buy a cheap air cooler like Hyper 212X or TX3 to keep the system quiet and cool until upgrade.

As for ZEN, we don't really know when it will launch or what the exact price will be, so waiting could be good or either bad... I just don't want to wait for something i don't know nothing about... It just feels like i could wait for years because there is always something coming out that will be better... I don't want to get a ticket to a Hypetrain that could posibly crash so hard..

 

[Robert Cook]

well you mentioned streaming. if you want to stream your gameplay, then you will want an i7. if you mean streaming videos, then an i5 is fine.

 

[InvalidError]

It just feels like i could wait for years because there is always something coming out that will be better... I don't want to get a ticket to a Hypetrain that could posibly crash so hard..

Nothing substantially better has come out to the market in the past five years as far as CPUs are concerned. Zen is the closest thing to that we'll be seeing anywhere in the foreseeable future and the main reason to be excited about is that if it delivers anything close to what AMD claims it will, it will hopefully at least cause Intel to review its pricing structure.

If you don't mind current prices, then get the i7 if you plan to do a significant amount of game streaming and be done with it.