Gotta agree with the 4.8 6700k at silicon lottery.
As for the 7700k, I've been digging up any information I can and unfortunately it seems my prediction I made a few months ago is correct. It will be only slightly better than current skylake and overclock only 100 mhz more on average.
It's intel we're talking about here. Kaby lake won't be a miracle cpu and really isnt worth waiting for it seems. The talk of 5.4 ghz overclocks seems to be fantasy.
Thanks everyone for contributing to this post! So by far, we can all agree it's the 6700k. But I have a question for all of you! Consider the new APIs (dx12-Vulkan), would the 6800k or 6850k or even the 6900k be more beneficial as more games supporting the new APIs release? Let me know what you think!
Thanks everyone for contributing to this post! So by far, we can all agree it's the 6700k. But I have a question for all of you! Consider the new APIs (dx12-Vulkan), would the 6800k or 6850k or even the 6900k be more beneficial as more games supporting the new APIs release? Let me know what you think!
A binned 6700K now and, say, a 10nm mid-range AMD or Intel CPU years from now would still be cheaper than holding out with a 6950X all that time and getting suboptimal per-thread performance and I/O with it.
Thanks everyone for contributing to this post! So by far, we can all agree it's the 6700k. But I have a question for all of you! Consider the new APIs (dx12-Vulkan), would the 6800k or 6850k or even the 6900k be more beneficial as more games supporting the new APIs release? Let me know what you think!
A binned 6700K now and, say, a 10nm mid-range AMD or Intel CPU years from now would still be cheaper than holding out with a 6950X all that time and getting suboptimal per-thread performance and I/O with it.
Grab a binned 6700K, a binned 7700K when it comes out, and then a binned 8700K (Coffee Lake 6 core) when it comes out. All cheaper than the 6950X and you'll keep the best single threaded performance. The times are slim when a heavily overclocked 6700K is brought to its knees in gaming. If you're lucky all three will work on Z170 and will be simple CPU swaps, although Coffee Lake is in question.
Grab a binned 6700K, a binned 7700K when it comes out, and then a binned 8700K (Coffee Lake 6 core) when it comes out. All cheaper than the 6950X and you'll keep the best single threaded performance. The times are slim when a heavily overclocked 6700K is brought to its knees in gaming. If you're lucky all three will work on Z170 and will be simple CPU swaps, although Coffee Lake is in question.
So you keep bringing up the 6950x. Does it compare to the 6700k? I mean the price difference is crazy. I guess why is the 6700k better? And is there any benefit for the multi cores yet? (Gaming)
The 6700K will perform better in the vast majority of games, and is significantly cheaper. That makes it the best choice for both performance and value.
The 6950X attempts to be a best of both worlds processor. Fairly high single threaded performance when overclocked, along with a massive multithreaded performance. And of course the massive price.
Some would prefer the 6950X seeing as most games will be GPU bottlenecked anyway.
The 6700K will perform better in the vast majority of games, and is significantly cheaper. That makes it the best choice for both performance and value.
The 6950X attempts to be a best of both worlds processor. Fairly high single threaded performance when overclocked, along with a massive multithreaded performance. And of course the massive price.
Some would prefer the 6950X seeing as most games will be GPU bottlenecked anyway.
Personally if I planned to keep the system a few years and budget was not an issue I'd go for a 6900k.
Don't get me wrong, a 6950x is nicer with 10c/20t vs 8c/16t but games are finally starting to utilize 6-8 cores properly just now. Having 8 true cores at 4ghz+ will be far more beneficial than 4c8t at 4ghz even if the 4c8t setup has more per core performance.
You are likely able to get a higher clock on the 8c chip vs the 10c as well, and it will run a hair cooler. Decacores are cool and all, but it'll be a while before they are taken advantage. A true 8 core has benefits now.
I'd still take a 6900k with HT turned off over a 6700k personally (8c8t vs 4c8t).
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