8600K or 8700

[Divergent.01]

The question is simple yet a tough one. Which one should I buy? An 8600k or an 8700? Do elaborate if you can. Thank you. 

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1 minute ago, Divergent.01 said:

The question is simple yet a tough one. Which one should I buy? An 8600k or an 8700? Do elaborate if you can. Thank you. 

8700 obviously, but if you're looking for high FPS gaming (144 fps and above) then sure go for the 8600k or consider the 8700k.

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

8700 is by far the better choice.

[Firewrath9]

8600k obviously as you can overclock it to higher performance than an 8700, also it has better quad core perf stock. It's also cheaper

[ChernobilChuck]

Depends a lot on your usage and how much you would overclock, the 8600k on stock is somewhat faster in single core performance which means it's better for gaming and it just gets better the more you overclock it, on the other hand the 8700 is faster probably in anything else than gaming as it has a much better multi core performance(and you can't overlock it) I would only choose the 8600k if the only thing you are doing is gaming and will overlock it too.

[AngryBeaver]

I would personally go with the 8700 even without overclocking. The all core boost on it is 4.3ghz with a 4.6ghz boost for 2 cores and I think 4.5ghz for 4 cores.

 

So with those boosts it is going to perform really well in all scenarios and you gain hyperthreading which provides a boost in multi-threaded tasks. So imo that is worth more than OC in this scenario.