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Causal user speed difference from I7 6700 to Pentium G4560?

So I built a PC for my family a year back and it has an Intel I7 6700, currently I Am deciding what CPU I should get for my gaming and rendering build. I don't have as big as a budget to buy another i7 but what I can buy is the Pentium G4560 (which I've heard good things about). My family uses the i7 PC for casual web browsing and opening up Microsoft Word a bit. I personally think that the i7 is an overkill now that no one will be using it to its max potential (gaming, editing, rendering). So what I wanted to do was swap the 2 CPUs for each other, but I don't want to ruin the speedy experience for anyone in my family... Would there be a big change in speed/performance for the casual user going from an i7 6700 to a pentium G4560???

( No one else in my family will do gaming/rendering on the i7 pc after I build my own, so they will just casually use it)

 

Any responses are greatly appreciated :)   

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The G650 would do that workload retardedly well. If you can update the BIOS to support Kaby Lake, then those Pentiums will do it even better since they have Hyper-Threading.

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Your family probably wouldn't notice, unless they are really tech savvy.

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depends on what a"casual" user does. how long you are keeping it will factor in as well, a 2600 is still a good cpu while a Pentium from that era is long gone. 

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