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From these two the 6700K. It will be cheaper and will perform as good if not better compared to 5820K, since it has a higher stock clock. Nevertheless, if all you really want to do is just game and general day-to-day stuff, you can easily save some money and buy the i5 6600K, because almost all games only utilize up to 4 cores and hyperthreading isn't really going to add to the gaming performance of your rig. You can easily save those extra 100-150$ and spend them instead on an i7 on a better graphics card. 

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Hi, My name is Ankit Ghag, am from India, and soon am planning to upgrade my PC from head to toe and am currently stuck on which processor should I be buying. My options are the latest skylake i7 6700K or the i7 5820K. I will be using my PC mainly for Gaming. Which one amongst these will be suitable for my need?

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for gaming? just go for an i5 6600K and a stronger GPU :3.

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Hi, My name is Ankit Ghag, am from India, and soon am planning to upgrade my PC from head to toe and am currently stuck on which processor should I be buying. My options are the latest skylake i7 6700K or the i7 5820K. I will be using my PC mainly for Gaming. Which one amongst these will be suitable for my need?

6700k.

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Hi, My name is Ankit Ghag, am from India, and soon am planning to upgrade my PC from head to toe and am currently stuck on which processor should I be buying. My options are the latest skylake i7 6700K or the i7 5820K. I will be using my PC mainly for Gaming. Which one amongst these will be suitable for my need?

I'd go with the 6700K.

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Get the 6600k. Games don't take advantage of the extra threads, but they do take advantage of more powerful gpus. The key to getting the most out of a gaming pc is knowing how to spend your money.

Putting more than you have to in the cpu means you're spending less on the gpu, and games care a whole lot more about what gpu you have than what cpu you have.

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From these two the 6700K. It will be cheaper and will perform as good if not better compared to 5820K, since it has a higher stock clock. Nevertheless, if all you really want to do is just game and general day-to-day stuff, you can easily save some money and buy the i5 6600K, because almost all games only utilize up to 4 cores and hyperthreading isn't really going to add to the gaming performance of your rig. You can easily save those extra 100-150$ and spend them instead on an i7 on a better graphics card. 

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