i7 6700k vs i5 6600k?

[RobertG05]

Which processor should I get, money is not a problem.

[3 Lions]

Depends on what you want to use it for. 

[RobertG05]

Just now, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

Depends on what you want to use it for. 

just gaming

[3 Lions]

Just now, RobertG05 said:

just gaming

The i5 6600K will do you just fine then. 

[EPPHO]

What resolution you play on and what GPU you have?

[RobertG05]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

What resolution you play on and what GPU you have?

1080p, but plan to play higher soon, gtx 1060 founders

[RobertG05]

1 minute ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

The i5 6600K will do you just fine then. 

i have the money for an i7, is there a marginal difference?

[EPPHO]

Just now, RobertG05 said:

1080p, but plan to play higher soon, gtx 1060 founders

i5 6600k

[3 Lions]

Just now, RobertG05 said:

i have the money for an i7, is there a marginal difference?

The i7 only makes sense if you are going to be doing lots of video editing and rendering which uses the 4 cores and 8 threads, gaming just uses 4 cores so the threads on the i7 are basically useless. 

[Praesi]

The 6700k is faster in Gaming, but the 6600k has everything you need and will do just fine.

[Creed1]

Overclock a 6600k. 

[DarkBlade2117]

10 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

The i7 only makes sense if you are going to be doing lots of video editing and rendering which uses the 4 cores and 8 threads, gaming just uses 4 cores so the threads on the i7 are basically useless. 

Not true. Many games are starting to utilize 8 threads such as Witcher 3, utilize 8 threads, In 1080p, he would see it most beneficial to get an i7 over an i5 and most importantly, the OP never knows what he would be doing. I never had an interest in streaming, recording, editing ect until I actually had a PC that could do it. (Blah blah i3, eh, takes a lot of tinkering but I can recording, stream, edit ect. 720p60FPS 90% of games)