Need help deciding what build I should choose to purchase

vPreM

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I am a gamer who wants to start streaming and do not know everything about computers. I heard that the i7 4790k was a great processor for streaming, so i created a build with it. I then heard about the new i7 5820K and thought that its newer and has 6 cores w/ hyper threading so it must be better! However, because I am not smart with computers i thought of coming here and asking the community. I already have an EVGA GTX 770 4GB and a 1TB SanDisk SSD so I do not need to worry about storage or graphics. Also if you have any suggestions on what else I should add or change they would be much appreciated! These are my two builds:

i7 4790k: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VbKr8d

i7 5820k: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/D2kMHx
 

lessthan0

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Jul 27, 2015
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Are you going to do any video rendering? If you are, get the 5820K. It would give you a little boost with the extra 2 cores. If you are just gaming, get the 4790K. Games do not benefit from more than 2 cores(that's why the Xeon is not going to give you a performance edge in games against a consumer grade i7).