Looking to upgrade to Intel from AMD should I wait a few weeks and get the 6700k or go for the 5820k

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The price difference is not very big between the two CPUs about $40. Both will need DDR4 from what I understand and I have the budget for a decent $200.00+ ish LGA 2011-v3 board. I don't really do any heavy work loads. I would basically run a GTX 970 SSC with it and game.I feel that passing up the opportunity to get a 6 core i7 vs a 4 core would be silly even if the whole upgrade is a few extra hundred dollars (I am assuming the LGA 2011-v3 motherboards will be a bit more than the new LGA 1151 motherboards. Also in the future if I did want to do some more heavy work loads like ripping DVDs or Blu-rays or even some light video editing it sounds like the 5820k would be advantageous. Plus I could also over clock the 5820k to match or come close to the 6700k right?
Thanks for reading.
 
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Mugglensu1984

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5820K for sure, there's no guarantee you can get to 5.0ghz with the other processor and with a decent overclock on the 5820K in the just 4.4ghz area you would need to overclock the other over 6.6ghz to make up the difference of the 2 additional cores. i7 5820K is a much better idea. With the extra two cores, the 5820k will perform better in CPU intensive games like Civ5/Total War games, and gives you extra PCI-E lanes, should you want to SLi or add in a M.2 SSD for example.
 
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