Tech Advice: i5 and 980 or i7 and 970

[G-amp]

Hi,

So i just wanted to ask for some tech advice. I'm planning on building a PC for gaming, editing, multitasking you know all that good stuff. But, my question is: does the i7 (6700k) really affect gaming, multitasking, and editing that much or should i just get an i5 (6600k) and get a GTX 980 instead of the GTX 970 i would've gotten if i were to go with the i7.

 

Thanks in Advance.

And Have a Good Day.

[stealth80]

depends on the use of the PC, generally AMD have the better cards now disregarding the 980ti/titan unless you want CUDA/lower power usage. I would say this isn't the time to upgrade with Polaris/Pascal inc in a few months. If it were me I would wait and save some more $$$ and go X99 with one of the new cards. Direct X 12 will prefer more cores

[mkylem]

I, personally, would go with the 6700K and the 970. The 6700K has hyperthreading, the 6600K doesn't. Plus, it would be better for encoding with Premiere than a 6600K + 980. Just make sure you have 16 GB of RAM! You won't regret it!

[mkylem]

But, if you are getting your parts soon, you may want to wait until the next series of NVidia GPUs are released. That's what I'm doing

[i respawn.]

10 minutes ago, G-amp said:

Hi,

So i just wanted to ask for some tech advice. I'm planning on building a PC for gaming, editing, multitasking you know all that good stuff. But, my question is: does the i7 (6700k) really affect gaming, multitasking, and editing that much or should i just get an i5 (6600k) and get a GTX 980 instead of the GTX 970 i would've gotten if i were to go with the i7.

 

Thanks in Advance.

And Have a Good Day.

If you are into multitasking and video editing you would definitely want an i7.i5 on the other hand is enough for gaming, while i7 is better and does improve performence.the 5820k again has 6 cores and equals to 6700k in other terms which would be a better option if u have a compatible motherboard.no difference between 5820k and 6700k for gaming though.

[Majestic]

Aren't there some C232/236 consumer boards? Why not a Xeon V5?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1225 V5 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($216.95 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus E3 PRO GAMING V5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($145.00 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GB Twin Frozr Video Card  ($465.54 @ B&H) 
Total: $827.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-25 06:26 EDT-0400

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($369.95 @ B&H) 
Motherboard: Asus Z170I PRO GAMING Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($159.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card  ($295.00 @ Newegg) 
Total: $824.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-25 06:26 EDT-0400

 

You'd only miss out on overclocking. But you'd have hyperthreading and a 980.

[Praesi]

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