Hows this?

[TubsAlwaysWins]

How is this for a build? Will be gaming and doing desktop work on it and stuff. Anything that is terrible?

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/NqQ4pb

[deleted_member_030719]

Personally, I would've saved the money from the i7-6800k and gone for an i7-6700k.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Just now, Jed M said:

Personally, I would've saved the money from the i7-6800k and gone for an i7-6700k.

Really? Because the whole idea would be cores are really useful to me sometimes. (I like my programs)

[deleted_member_030719]

7 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

Really? Because the whole idea would be cores are really useful to me sometimes. (I like my programs)

Unless you're using a lot of intensive programs, and 6700k would be best.

[Enderman]

What "work" do you do?

Are you a video editor or data analyst?

[brob]

1 hour ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

Really? Because the whole idea would be cores are really useful to me sometimes. (I like my programs)

Can you elaborate please.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

17 hours ago, brob said:

Can you elaborate please.

I just use lots of programs at once and I would like alot of cores so each runs smoothly

[brob]

2 hours ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

I just use lots of programs at once and I would like alot of cores so each runs smoothly

Most desktop applications spend over 90% of their time idle or waiting for i/o. Couple that with the way the o/s handles multi-tasking and one should find that a 4-core hyperthreaded cpu can handle most desktop work smoothly.

 

Where more cores make a difference is in cpu intensive applications that are highly multi-threaded. Environments with lots of active programs do not necessarily match this pattern. In fact they may do better with higher clocked cores, rather than more, but slower cores.