7600K vs 7700

[Taswell]

Thinking upgrading my current system with tax return. Should I get a 7600K with a Z270 board or a 7700 (non k) with a H270 board? price difference seems like 50-75$ depending on the source.

 

it will be gaming and doing some video editing stuffs. 

 

thinking about a NVME m.2 drive to go with it 

[Unexas.]

2 minutes ago, ITheSpazI said:

Thinking upgrading my current system with tax return. Should I get a 7600K with a Z270 board or a 7700 (non k) with a H270 board? price difference seems like 50-75$ depending on the source.

 

it will be gaming and doing some video editing stuffs. 

 

thinking about a NVME m.2 drive to go with it 

7700

[Taja]

If the 7700 ia the cheaper one, go for it ofc. If not, then its up to you of you can afford it.

[AlTech]

5 minutes ago, ITheSpazI said:

Thinking upgrading my current system with tax return. Should I get a 7600K with a Z270 board or a 7700 (non k) with a H270 board? price difference seems like 50-75$ depending on the source.

 

it will be gaming and doing some video editing stuffs. 

 

thinking about a NVME m.2 drive to go with it 

the 7700 has 4 cores, 8 threads and 8MB of cache versus the i5's 4 cores, 4 threads and 6MB of cache.

 

In video editing the i7 would be better.

[tarfeef101]

While this is not an OBVIOUS decision like some seem to think, since you seem to be doing some intensive editing (since it warrants NVMe drives), I'd go i7 to get the better multithreaded performance. Either chip will game well, but the 7600K will outperform the i7 in most games (some like GTAV are exceptions). Of course, to see that difference you'd need a pretty beefy GPU setup anyways.

[Princess Luna]

9 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

While this is not an OBVIOUS decision like some seem to think, since you seem to be doing some intensive editing (since it warrants NVMe drives), I'd go i7 to get the better multithreaded performance. Either chip will game well, but the 7600K will outperform the i7 in most games (some like GTAV are exceptions). Of course, to see that difference you'd need a pretty beefy GPU setup anyways.

My i7 7700 outperforms my brothers 6600k on Any game I throw at, you're not well informed, ALWAYS pick the locked i7 over the OC i5, Games are more and more benefiting from Hyper-Threading so in terms of future-proof the i7 also is the safe bet:

OP also mentioned it will be gaming and doing some video editing stuffs.  Sony Vegas and other editing tools will show benefices going with the i7. There is no doubt here where he should put his money, I would advise a B250 instead of the H270 though.

[Taswell]

Thanks for the answers guys. 7700 it is. I really like the msi h270 tomahawk arctic. think i'll go for that one

[tarfeef101]

1 hour ago, Princess Cadence said:

My i7 7700 outperforms my brothers 6600k on Any game I throw at, you're not well informed, ALWAYS pick the locked i7 over the OC i5, Games are more and more benefiting from Hyper-Threading so in terms of future-proof the i7 also is the safe bet:

 

OP also mentioned it will be gaming and doing some video editing stuffs.  Sony Vegas and other editing tools will show benefices going with the i7. There is no doubt here where he should put his money, I would advise a B250 instead of the H270 though.

First, I DID say he should go i7. So there's that.

 

Second, any game you choose is not every game. Or even most games. Second, even if you are using the same GPUs with the same settings, same RAM config, same storage, etc. I doubt that is the case. Unless you have Titan XPs each, the GPU should bottleneck the system before either chip. Plus, you haven't disclosed the OC on your brother's chip. 

 

Anyways, the point is you have no data, no consistency in your tests, and you criticize me over a theory of "games", in general, favouring many threads when that is the case in a small fraction of cases. 

 

So perhaps before calling other ill-informed, present a cohesive argument first. Or even second. Just do it at all, really.