i5 4690k, i7 4790k, or Skylake/Socket 1151 (Streaming, Gaming, Rendering, Lots of Chrome tabs *lul*)

Aaron Robbins

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So I'm currently running with an AMD FX 6300. It did well for what I wanted it to do, but now I have a GTX 970. I feel like the 6300 is a huge bottleneck considering my performance in GTA V (minus the memory leak). On top of the performance, I also want to stream and make YouTube content, not necessarily at the same time.

BEFORE you link the LinusTechTips video, please remember that those benchmarks are for WORST CASE SCENARIO, meaning that someone would be rendering, streaming, play a cpu intensive game, etc etc. I can't imagine I'd be doing all those things at once. At most I'd stream and play a game at once, maybe have a few chrome tabs open. Rendering would be done separately, as with recording (potentially streaming while recording). Overclocking is a must (sorry Xeon).

I see the following options:

i5 is cheaper, runs great with games, but doesn't have hyperthreading
i7 has hyperthreading, more threads, great performer, but 75-90 bucks more than the i5
Skylake will be a new socket, new tech, possibly better than the current gen 1150 socket processors. I did hear, however, that itll run faster memory (DDR4? or is that just X99/2011 v3).

I believe it'll be a great upgrade regardless of what I pick, but if waiting for Skylake is the best option then that means I can put money towards other purchases (PS4, music equipment, more money towards a future car).


Any help would be really appreciated!
 
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If you look up benchmarks, The i5 and i7 are always neck and neck because games only utilize 4 cores nowadays. Not 6 or 8. Both would be a huge step up over the 6300 obviously, but if you do multitasking and editing, or streaming. Might want to get the i7 just to have the extra performance room when you need it, but for gaming without any background processes, editing, streaming, etc. Both will perform the same,

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If you look up benchmarks, The i5 and i7 are always neck and neck because games only utilize 4 cores nowadays. Not 6 or 8. Both would be a huge step up over the 6300 obviously, but if you do multitasking and editing, or streaming. Might want to get the i7 just to have the extra performance room when you need it, but for gaming without any background processes, editing, streaming, etc. Both will perform the same,
 
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