New gaming rig - i5-6600 or i7-6700

[jcdenton]

Have settled on an i5 6600k, hope I dont regret not going for the i7 but decided on the former as didnt think I would get enough benefit when editing photos/gaming to justify the extra cost.

[watercooled]

I very much doubt you'd regret it, and that CPU should last you a good while!

[uk_shahj]

If you're only gaming, then the i5 is enough.
If you need to do video editing and gaming, then the i7 will benefit you more.

[khanmein]

i7-6700 if u got extra cash.. once u tried i7, there's not turning back!

[Hoonigan]

Hi CHiLL,

I've just upgraded my PC to the Core i5 6600K and I've overclocked it to 4.5GHz without any issue at all.
Bought some 3GHz DDR4 with it and a Gigabyte Z170 K3 Gaming motherboard.

Couldn't be more pleased.

Echoing what others have said, unless you're doing encoding or any properly CPU intensive tasks, put the money into the GPU or an SSD or something.

[MasterSpryce]

If you have the money for the i7 get the i7, or get the i5 and use the money you save and add it to your gpu as an i7 is a bit of an overkill(But it will help).

Do you just plan to game?

Also Asrock released some new h170 boards that can overclock Non K gpus to 6600k levels. Not to be mistaken by the now unsupported method that intel banned. Link:http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/asrock...ews-52551.html

[Spreadie]

i7-6700 if u got extra cash.. once u tried i7, there's not turning back!

Why? There's no tangible benefit unless you can make use of the extra threads. If you can't then you've just paid an extra £80 for a warm fuzzy feeling, aka e-peen.

To the OP, go i5 and put the rest towards some other component.

As for the overlclocking on non-Z series boards, hasn't Intel already started bullying the board manufacturers on that front? The other problem with it is that it's all or nothing - overclocking on a H series board basically locked the CPU at the OC speed, even when idle.

[Bonebreaker777]

How about lower frequency but more cores in form of 2011 socket octa-core Xeons available on eBay? Seen some cheap recently but not sure if commercial boards would accept them.

[chumpydiggity]

Echoing what has been said, the 6600k was the right choice, shift that savings to the GPU to seem a better perf/£ on your build

[shamus21]

If you were thinking of going for a 6700k you would be better of picking up a s/h 5820k for less money and 6 cores

[retrend]

That's my thoughts too. I'm waiting on Broadwell E now to see how it overclocks and how much more than 5820k it is. Might get a new board and drop a 5820k in it with a view to sticking a nice 10 core in it in a few years.

[Rebo00]

Always go for the highest spec you can afford
Andy