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4 minutes ago, BioAlpha said:

" i7 6700 LGA1151 CPU with 6 to 8 Cores."

The 6700/6700k is 4 physical cores with hyperthreading, giving a total of 8 threads.

The main difference between the 6700 and 6700k is the k version comes with higher clock speeds out of the box and can be overclocked as well.

If your friend was 6 cores, then he should look at the 8700k CPU.

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Hello, my friend is building his first PC Build and he is wanting to get a Intel Core i7. He is building it to play games. 
He is requesting
" i7 6700 LGA1151 CPU with 6 to 8 Cores."

And all i found were these two.

so which one?
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-I7-6700-FC-LGA14C-Processor-BX80662I76700/dp/B0136JONG8

or

https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Unlocked-Skylake-Processor-BX80662I76700K/dp/B012M8LXQW
 

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i7-6700 has neither 6 nor 8 cores. Period. None of the CPUs that share motherboards with the i7-6700 has 6 or 8 cores anyway.

 

To be serious, buying 6700 now is pretty stupid. Even if he has a motherboard for it already, it's better to just sell it off and buy 8th gen VPU with Z370 motherboard, or even wait a while for other chipsets like B360 and H370 to save some money.

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Welcome to the forums!

 

There is no such thing as an i7-6700 with 6-8 cores.

 

If your friend wants a core i7, the best option right now is the 8700K. You'll need a Z370 motherboard for this CPU.

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4 minutes ago, BioAlpha said:

" i7 6700 LGA1151 CPU with 6 to 8 Cores."

The 6700/6700k is 4 physical cores with hyperthreading, giving a total of 8 threads.

The main difference between the 6700 and 6700k is the k version comes with higher clock speeds out of the box and can be overclocked as well.

If your friend was 6 cores, then he should look at the 8700k CPU.

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Tell your friend to wait a bit and consider getting a new Ryzen 7 27700X or 2800X instead.

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Thank you everyone for commenting. He ended up buying the Wrong Gen CPU and the Wrong Motherboard combo. He was 1 generation off. he got the i7 8th gen but the Motherboard supported 7th gen. so hes gonna get a new Motherboard. Its taking him a long time to build it but hes almost done finally.

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