i7-3770 vs i5 6400K

[ekleduden]

Hi there!

I am buying a new (used) rig to save some money and I have two different choices at the moment. 

I have a GTX 970 4gb VRAM already, but I dont have the rest. The PC is going to be used primarily for gaming of new titles (BF1) and old ones like CS:GO.

One of the rigs that I can buy used has a i7 3770. The other one has a i5 6400K. Ive been looking at ARK, and it seems to me that the only drawback of choosing the i7, is the limitation in RAM (32 GB) vs the i5 that has 64 GB max. 

They cost about the same. Which one should I chose?



PS: first post, non-english speaker so exquiiiize me for zhe bad English.

[DaMainMan]

For gaming I would recommend the new i5.

Why would you need 32gb of ram for ARK?

[Simon771]

There is no i5 6400K CPU.

You either have i5 6400 or i5 6600k.

 

For gaming, and pairing it with GTX 970, I would suggest you to get the cheaper one.

[Matias_Chambers]

There is no i5-6400K. What is your budget for a CPU? I would get an i5-6600K.

[ekleduden]

It was i5-6400. Im trying to get this quite cheap, so im browsing "craigs list" for package deals and hardware. People who have bought the newest i5´s tend to ask for A LOT of money for their "top end gaming rigs". I thought the specs of the previously mentioned i7 looked quite good. I am probably just quite fresh at this and dont know what im looking at but isnt 4 cores "all you need" for gaming? or does BF1 utilize more?

Budgetwise im looking to spend about 586 US dollars (5000 NOK) total for the rest of the rig. I got GPU, 16 GB DDR3 RAM and peripherals. 

[ekleduden]

@DaMainMan Sorry, I didnt mean the game ARK. I meant Intels ARK which provides specs for all CPUs.

 

[Constant Failure]

5 minutes ago, ekleduden said:

It was i5-6400. Im trying to get this quite cheap, so im browsing "craigs list" for package deals and hardware. People who have bought the newest i5´s tend to ask for A LOT of money for their "top end gaming rigs". I thought the specs of the previously mentioned i7 looked quite good. I am probably just quite fresh at this and dont know what im looking at but isnt 4 cores "all you need" for gaming? or does BF1 utilize more?

Budgetwise im looking to spend about 586 US dollars (5000 NOK) total for the rest of the rig. I got GPU, 16 GB DDR3 RAM and peripherals. 

Unless the ram you have is DDR3L, you can't use it with skylakes (6400, etc). So unless you want to buy new ram as well you should stick with that i7 3770. Also the if the only purpose you're planning this rig is to game it makes no difference if your ram is capped at 32 or 64gb. You can easilly get by with 8gb but I think the suggested (at least what I see in many posts) is 16gb.

[Megah3rtz]

i7 3770k is better than a i5 6500. Upgrading to a i5 6600k wouldnt give you much benefit for the price, and so there's no reason to switch unless you want a i7 6700k.