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[Oshino Shinobu]

Well, the 6700K is better, there isn't a debate about that. 

 

What's the best value may change, depending on the situation.

[Philcat101]

Are you taking account for the price? Because the 6700k is better, but costs more.

If it is a factor, I recommend the 4790k.

[Nacho Marco Segui]

If it is your first build, i would go for the newer platform

[AresKrieger]

Price to performance or base performance? Really I vote 4790k if you plan to do high overclocks since the 6700k doesn't overclock as well, but you do lose some features and 5% ish stock performance (so a little ipc), either way the 4790k is a better bang for your buck. @KnigHTLol123

[Trik'Stari]

If it is your first build, i would go for the newer platform

^this.

 

More hardware longevity. Z97 is basically obsolete now.

[Lays]

Price to performance or base performance? Really I vote 4790k if you plan to do high overclocks since the 6700k doesn't overclock as well, but you do lose some features and 5% ish stock performance (so a little ipc), either way the 4790k is a better bang for your buck. @KnigHTLol123

 

The 6700k actually overclocks just as good on average, there is much less variance in batches from what I've seen.

 

Air cooled averages from around ~75,000 submissions on 4790k, and 15k on 6700k:

 

 

Water cooled averages:

 

[fabox]

The i7-4790k is still a beast but if you want to upgrade to Skylake, you have to get a new Motherboard and RAM. If you can afford a i7-6700k right now, buy it. 

[Moonzy]

for your first build, i recommend getting a newer platform like what Nacho Marco Segui above said
this is because if u plan to upgrade in the future, DDR4 will probably still be around, and the mobo might still be able to be re-used

but if u are upgrading from a DDR3 platform, u can get the 4790K to save some money

basically... first pc? skylake. Upgrading from DDR3 platform? 4790k

[AresKrieger]

The 6700k actually overclocks just as good on average, there is much less variance in batches from what I've seen.

 

Air cooled averages from around ~75,000 submissions on 4790k, and 15k on 6700k:

 

 

 

Water cooled averages:

 

 

 

I guess the 6700k is more consistent OCing then  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[bomerr]

I guess the 6700k is more consistent OCing then  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

6700k doesn't have the FIVR jacking up the CPU temps. 

 

My personally opinion is 5820k for multicore hyper threaded performance, 6600k for single core performance (or even 6500k with BLCK overclocking). 6700k is in a really bad price/performance place right now.