Help Ordering CPU soon 6700k or 5820k

[silosmith]

Hi everyone I am upgrading from an 8350 and thinking about the new 6700k or the 5820k . I normally play wow on 3 - 27 inch monitors - 1 4k and 2 1080 monitors. Sometimes I'm running all 3 monitors at 1080p max ultra settings & sometimes I just use the 4k monitor on ultra settings on wow or battlefield 4 running with no problems with my 295x2. I never had and intel chip before and didn't do too much research back when I built this pc so more cores look better to me at the time. lmfao Don't kill me please, I see now that more cores are not always everything. I am still a noob when it comes to building a pc lol.  So the final thing is the motherboard and the chipset x99 or z170. When I look around on the forum and other sites and videos it looks like the x99 is really good but the z170 is the latest. I saw linus video about the 2 mother boards but i am still lost as to which 1 to pick. Any help will be good thanks.

[don_svetlio]

X99

[rafazafar]

work/production = 5820k
otherwise = 6700k

ps. please follow your own topics.

 

 

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[Chasem121]

Unless you are going to be video editing, I would go for the 6700k

[afyeung]

Why? the 6700k is so awkwardly priced and has zero real benefit over the 5820k which is cheaper and has 50% more cores. 

[Hiebly]

5820K gets my vote. 2 more cores > ~7% IPC increase imo

[Chasem121]

Why? the 6700k is so awkwardly priced and has zero real benefit over the 5820k which is cheaper and has 50% more cores. 

The 6700k has better per core performance and those extra cores are going not going to help him any when he games, it will also get him into the latest socket type which will help with future upgradability.

[jnmbhj]

5820k has more pci-e lanes. Its a better option if you want to have multiple pci-e cards or video cards (2+). Unless you get a motherboard that has a pcie chip. Also 5820k is better for encoding and rendering. 6700k is prob going to give you the best performance in games (for now) 

[DarkBlade2117]

The 6700k has better per core performance and those extra cores are going not going to help him any when he games, it will also get him into the latest socket type which will help with future upgradability.

By the time you have to upgrade a 5820k or 6700k a new socket will be out anyways

[jnmbhj]

The 6700k has better per core performance and those extra cores are going not going to help him any when he games, it will also get him into the latest socket type which will help with future upgradability.

as for socket types. Well you know how it goes. Everything there is a update, the socket changes. Unless its a processor refresh. (but that usually is not worth upgrading to) And now a days games are actually using more than 4 cores. (Newer titles do) Some of the older games made in 2013 to 2014 only need 4 cores. And back then a i5 = i7 in games. Now things are starting to get a bit different. 

[DXMember]

only x99

only hardcore

[Megatron]

5820k,  isn't Dx12  able to take advantage of more cores now or in the future?

[afyeung]

The 6700k has better per core performance and those extra cores are going not going to help him any when he games, it will also get him into the latest socket type which will help with future upgradability.

The better per core performance won't help too much in games while cpu intensive tasks can use up all 6 cores. There is really no reason to choose the 6700k over the 5820k except that the Z170 boards look a lot better. Also besides that you probably won't need the 5820k's extra cores anyways. That being said, the 5820k is still the superior CPU by a wide margin. 

[Darkseth]

5820k,  isn't Dx12  able to take advantage of more cores now or in the future?

We wil have to see it...

 

 

@ Thread: What are the current prices on the 6700k and 5820k in your country?

In mine (germany) the 5820k costs 25€ more, but the Motherboards are easy 100€ more expensive.

 

 

Why? the 6700k is so awkwardly priced and has zero real benefit over the 5820k which is cheaper and has 50% more cores. 

 

How about, it gets Cooler (less TDP),  can consume over 100 Watt less during Load (if you OC the 5820k to 4 ghz, which you SHOULD, or it will be slower), and 100-150 bucks more expensive?

I think those are legit benefits

 

 

Btw: if i am not mistaken, WoW doesnt care about many Cores. It only wants high clock speed (and Hyperthreading has like ZERO benefit for WoW.).

So, without OC, the 6700k will outperform the 5820k. By how much, i can't say.

IF you OC the 5820k, it might catch up, but at the cost of a higher platform price, and a higher power consumption.

 

However, BF4 might profite a little. But you have to wage, how big the difference is,  and how much the actual price difference for the whole Platform is.

 

for PURE Gaming... Honestly, You will probably won't notice ANY benefit from the 6-core 5820k in the next Years.

 

Also, see here: 

 

I find the 3D Mark bench quite interesting.

Despite the 5820/5930k has 50% more Cores, it performs only 25%~ faster in the Physic part (which is completely CPU bound)

[Fetzie]

The 6700k has better per core performance and those extra cores are going not going to help him any when he games, it will also get him into the latest socket type which will help with future upgradability.

 

Given Intel's past history, upgrading on the same socket when you already have the i7 really won't be worth it. The LGA2011v3 upgrade path is slightly more credible, with Broadwell-E bringing 8 and 10 core CPUs.

[96Evo]

5820k single core is not that bad anyway, it not like it extremely weak, it still strong in single thread so it not even a problem. If going 170 then get 6700 is better.

if you gonna build a new pc and you deciding between those 2 cpu then I wouyld say 5820k. You can get a lot of stuff done, in term of gaming you wont suffer anything and when more dx12 come out and you compared it to the 6700k there will be no different since the load will be distributed on all core evenly and there will be no cpu bottleneck anyway. Also you have more pcie lane for sli/xfire. 

 

I think you should go for 5820k and be sure to find a mobo that has an m.2 pcie 3.0 4x. SO if you gonna pair it with 950 pro or hyperX predator then u wont have to suffer the bandwidth limnitation of those drive and they can run at their full potential. Or u can wait for broadwell-E if u want. It will be using the x99 and stuff, the mobo maker should do a refresh of their board sooner or later

[silosmith]

Thanks for all the help looks like 80% of you guys said got with the 5820k so might just pick it up. It is going for about 100.00$ less than the 6700k so i save some money there for my motherboard I guess.   I live next to a microcenter so i will just pick it up in store.

[Purgent]

5820k... you're absolutely splitting hairs in IPC and it has an extra 2c/4t

[Guest]

Thanks for all the help looks like 80% of you guys said got with the 5820k so might just pick it up. It is going for about 100.00$ less than the 6700k so i save some money there for my motherboard I guess.   I live next to a microcenter so i will just pick it up in store.

Oh hell yeah, get it over the 6700k for $100 less. I got my 5820k for only $299 when they were in low demand, Microcenter rocks.

[kameshss]

work/production = 5820k

otherwise = 6700k

ps. please follow your own topics.

 

no point in selecting 6700k by paying the same price of 5820k imo.

[rafazafar]

no point in selecting 6700k by paying the same price of 5820k imo.

depends on where u live, the prices are different.

platform prices are also very different.

im only commenting about the cpus, not thier worths.

if u wanna talk about price/performance, then use an older gen 1231v3/4790k

[kameshss]

depends on where u live, the prices are different.

platform prices are also very different.

im only commenting about the cpus, not thier worths.

if u wanna talk about price/performance, then use an older gen 1231v3/4790k

I agree.

 

But I was commenting if the price of 6700k and 5820k is same, getting 5820k is far better is what I said.

 

And here

 

X99

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($374.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.88 @ OutletPC) 

Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($143.98 @ Newegg) 

Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($42.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $586.84

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-10 04:40 EST-0500

 

Z170

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($416.83 @ Amazon) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.88 @ OutletPC) 

Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($89.99 @ Micro Center) 

Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($42.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $574.69

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-10 04:40 EST-0500

 

Now, I'd definitely go for the 5820k and OC and get same or better Single Core performance than 6700k

[jjohnthedon1]

I'd consider the 5820k vs the 4790k because of the price difference between haswell and skylake isn't worth it

[flipped_bit]

I'll add another vote for the 5820K.  The platform is more future proof in that you have an upgrade path to 40 CPU PCI lanes with 8 cores should you ever need it.

 

The 6700K does have higher IPC, but if you overclock the 5820K to the 6700K's native clock rate the difference in performance won't be noticeable.  And if you get a decent chip you should be able to clock it to the low-to-mid 4GHz range without issue.

[silosmith]

ok cool i am sold 5820k it is for sure .