CPU Upgrade

[Benliam12]

Hey ! I'm about to upgrade my current CPU to something better since the one I have isn't enought powerful to handle to work I'm giving it (Video editing) 

 

I'm currently running off a i5 6400 and I'd like to upgrade to a i7 6700k that a friend of mine will give me. Since both CPU have the same socket should I assume they will be compatible with the motherboard I have right now. 

 

MB : https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128910CVF

 

PS : I know the best mother board but I might upgrade it too later if I can.

 

PS 2  : I know I cant OC with that board

[saibalroop]

Yes They are but you cant overclock with that board. You will need something like a cryorig c7 or hyper 212 to use with the 6700k because it runs hotter than the 6400. 

[yathis]

Yeah if he is giving it to you why not.

Then just buy a $100 W10 O/S

[Billy_Mays]

Can't OC on it but it's going to be better 

[yathis]

Yeah you cant overclock with that mobo

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, yathis said:

Yeah if he is giving it to you why not.

Then just buy a $100 W10 O/S

Kingwin is tons cheaper

[yathis]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

Kingwin is token cheaper

True dat, true dat

 

Or just use Linux for free, or never activate W10 and use it for free.

[Billy_Mays]

1 minute ago, yathis said:

True dat, true dat

 

Or just use Linux for free, or never activate W10 and use it for free.

But Linux is harder to operate than windows 

[Benliam12]

Thanks for the quick answer Btw, I know I can't OC with that MB but going from a i5 6400 to a i7 6700K will still be a good uprade even tho I'm not using the "K" from the CPU

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Benliam12 said:

Thanks for the quick answer Btw, I know I can't OC with that MB but going from a i5 6400 to a i7 6700K will still be a good uprade even tho I'm not using the "K" from the CPU

Actually you will be. It runs at a higher base and boost than the normal 6700. So yes you will see an improvement.

[faziten]

2 hours ago, Benliam12 said:

Hey ! I'm about to upgrade my current CPU to something better since the one I have isn't enought powerful to handle to work I'm giving it (Video editing) 

 

I'm currently running off a i5 6400 and I'd like to upgrade to a i7 6700k that a friend of mine will give me. Since both CPU have the same socket should I assume they will be compatible with the motherboard I have right now. 

 

MB : https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128910CVF

 

PS : I know the best mother board but I might upgrade it too later if I can.

 

PS 2  : I know I cant OC with that board

Best case scenario you will see 60% extra performance from hyperthreading alone (Intel quote). Add that to the extra clock which is 21%. you end up with a theoretical 93.3% more performance if the codec can use every core of your 6700K @ 4.0 boost clock and your Heatsink lets it do such thing without throttling. You can increase even more buying faster RAM, but sadly there is no simple rule to calculate how much will it help. Theory claims faster ram being better than slower ram in 100% CPU usage scenarios. 

 

Worst case, equal performance (assuming the codec you use is not HT optimized and you CPU throttled due to heat to 3.3Ghz which is max boost of 6400). 

 

Understand this. I am not saying you will have 93% more performance in every-fucking-thing. I'm telling you the absolute max you can expect from theory. That's your "roof" performance delta. 

 

i.e H264 scales 30% according to this test: 

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HT-Core-Scaling-Xeon-SKL

 

while Gcc scales with the theoretical 60% claimed by Intel. 

 

i7 have extra 2MB of Cache than i5, so some apps (GCC is one of them) will show even more than 60% improvement, but not much, sadly it's a rather unique workload so i could not find the exact numbers. 

 

I know this may sound "theoretical" but i lack info about what you actually use and how. Post program, codec HW acceleration?, Ram speed, etc and i may be able to approach an even more realistic number. Cheers!