i5 6500 or i7 6700 for gaming?

[tarfeef101]

1 hour ago, aisle9 said:

To be perfectly blunt about the reality of the situation, I could render video on a dual-core Pentium, and I have. Six hours later, I wanted to shoot myself because it was still at 12%, but you can edit and render on just about anything modern. Hell, I do some very, very occasional Photoshop on my Q6600.

 

All that said, when it comes to the question of rendering, once you go i7, you don't go back.

 

Yes, but that comes with the K-SKU premium and a Z170 board. You're potentially looking at a $100 price difference just for the privilege of squeezing a few more MHz out of a chip that's identical in every other way (except base clock speed and TDP). I actually don't think the Skylake i5 platform is worth overclocking on, because the 6500 performs oh-so-damn-well.

Well the delta between a 6600 and the k-variant is like 20 bucks, so if you can grab a z170 board on a deal you actually get a pretty good value. On a cheap 120mm AIO I got my 6600K to 4.9 GHz, that's nothing to sneeze at. That's a significant boost in performance.

 

Like I said before though, the no-k i5 is still good for gaming, so if the $ is tight there isn't really a point to dropping the extra cash unless speeding up renders and simulation build times is important.

Edited December 14, 2016 by tarfeef101

[Wolfenite]

36 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

Well the delta between a 6600 and the k-variant is like 20 bucks, so if you can grab a z170 board on a deal you actually get a pretty good value. On a cheap 120mm AIO I got my 6600K to 4.9 GHz, that's nothing to sneeze at. That's a significant boost in performance.

 

Like I said before though, the no-k i5 is still good for gaming, so if the $ is tight there isn't really a point to dropping the extra cash unless speeding up renders and simulation build times is important.

I'm unsure if overclocking voids warranty, but I'm pretty sure it does. It'll likely do the last thing I do to the PC before I get a new one. Also the difference between a i7 6700 is quite big and for only $50 more. If I had any spare money I would go with that instead.

 

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Wolfenite said:

I'm unsure if overclocking voids warranty, but I'm pretty sure it does. It'll likely do the last thing I do to the PC before I get a new one. Also the difference between a i7 6700 is quite big and for only $50 more. If I had any spare money I would go with that instead.

 

Unless they can prove that the CPU was damaged by overclocking, the problem wouldn't be much of an issue since the BIOS is what stores the overclock.

[ucandoit69]

I just built a pc with an i5 6600k and a gtx 1070 and I wish I got an i7 6700k. The 6600k is great for gaming, some really high demanding games need a slight overclock to reach those ultra settings while running super smooth. If you're doing any rendering, it's going to feel slow on the 6600k. If there is anyway you could just save an extra hundred for the i7 6700k you'll be super satisfied.

[tarfeef101]

4 hours ago, Wolfenite said:

I'm unsure if overclocking voids warranty, but I'm pretty sure it does. It'll likely do the last thing I do to the PC before I get a new one. Also the difference between a i7 6700 is quite big and for only $50 more. If I had any spare money I would go with that instead.

 

 

3 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

Unless they can prove that the CPU was damaged by overclocking, the problem wouldn't be much of an issue since the BIOS is what stores the overclock.

Yeah, honestly being worried about warranties and damage is the last thing that should stop you. They have numerous safeguards to prevent you from damage. It'd be pretty hard to actually damage your chip.