6700k vs 5820k

[JGalsky]

Hello! I'm building my first PC soon and I wanted to know if I can install two 980 Ti video cards on a 6700k.  I know the 5820k has less PCIe lanes than a 5930k but I cannot afford the 5930k and I wanted to see of the 6700k is a good CPu for gaming and multi-tasking.  Thanks!

[thatguyyouknow75]

two 980tis wont have any issue on anything i5 and up in the intel lineup

[JGalsky]

Just now, thatguyyouknow75 said:

two 980tis wont have any issue on anything i5 and up in the intel lineup

Really? I heard that the 5920k doesn't work too well with a wifi card + 2 video cards... I kind of wanted a white mother board because of the rest of my hardware, and I cannot find an x99 white mother board.  I want to know if it's worth switching to Z170 just for looks.

[thatguyyouknow75]

its just a matter of how many pci lanes the chip supports but the fact of the matter is, if one card runs at x16 and the other at x8 you wont be able to tell the difference in games/rendering compared to x16 and x16

 

[JGalsky]

1 minute ago, thatguyyouknow75 said:

its just a matter of how many pci lanes the chip supports but the fact of the matter is, if one card runs at x16 and the other at x8 you wont be able to tell the difference in games/rendering compared to x16 and x16

 

Thanks!

[Kobathor]

5 minutes ago, thatguyyouknow75 said:

two 980tis wont have any issue on anything i5 and up in the intel lineup

Doing some quick searches it seems users experience bottlenecks with i5's and powerful SLI setups. I've found more than one person saying their 4690k's bottleneck their 980ti's (some people had bottleneck issues with 970's) where they were not getting optimal FPS for their graphics cards, especially compared to people with i7 setups in the same situations. Sad to say, i5's are not the absolute gaming destroyers people seem to believe they are here.

 

OP, 5820k is the best for you.

[JGalsky]

1 minute ago, Kobathor said:

Doing some quick searches it seems users experience bottlenecks with i5's and powerful SLI setups. I've found more than one person saying their 4690k's bottleneck their 980ti's (some people had bottleneck issues with 970's) where they were not getting optimal FPS for their graphics cards, especially compared to people with i7 setups in the same situations. Sad to say, i5's are not the absolute gaming destroyers people seem to believe they are here.

Ok, thanks for your response.  I will be getting three 60Hz monitors so anything over 60 fps won't be notticed (Correct me if I'm wrong).  Do you reccomend getting the 6700k over the Haswell-E CPUs just because there are really good looking Z170 motherboards?

[shdowhunt60]

It's a question of, would you rather have that 4-5fps in a given game today now, or would rather have the increased versatility from the extra two cores?

[Kobathor]

1 minute ago, JGalsky said:

Ok, thanks for your response.  I will be getting three 60Hz monitors so anything over 60 fps won't be notticed (Correct me if I'm wrong).  Do you reccomend getting the 6700k over the Haswell-E CPUs just because there are really good looking Z170 motherboards?

I see tons of X99 boards that look insanely cool.. Also, I'd pick performance over looks any day of the year.

About the FPS.. When you're talking about FPS vs refresh rate, yeah, you won't be able to notice over 60 FPS much. But, the higher the FPS paired with the refresh rates will give you a smoother experience (given you don't get much screen tearing.) 

[JGalsky]

4 minutes ago, shdowhunt60 said:

It's a question of, would you rather have that 4-5fps in a given game today now, or would rather have the increased versatility from the extra two cores?

That's what I'm trying to answer with all the information you guys give me... I do some milti-tasking like watch a youtube video + gaming, or video + a few documents, or some photo editing. I wanted to know if the 6700k is up for it.

[shdowhunt60]

Of course it is. If a ULV dual-core can do what quintessentially amounts to that, then a quad definitely can.

 

The thing I'm saying is that, a 6700K might get you 4-5 more FPS for games now. But that's not guaranteed in the future, as games become increasingly dependent on multi-threading. We're already seeing a bit of that happening with early DX12 titles like Ashes of the Singularity where extreme edition processors are outperforming the consumer quads.

 

In addition, as it stands now the 6700K is just more expensive than the 5820K. A lot of places are still selling it for $390+. The 5820K can easily be found for $350. You're going to be paying more for an X99 motherboard, but for the same price I would much rather have the 2 extra cores for that piece of mind.

[NumLock21]

15 minutes ago, JGalsky said:

That's what I'm trying to answer with all the information you guys give me... I do some milti-tasking like watch a youtube video + gaming, or video + a few documents, or some photo editing. I wanted to know if the 6700k is up for it.

Get a 5820K is has more lanes than a 6700K, 16 vs 28.