Which would you go for gaming wise? Right now with black friday they both seem to be fairly cheap on pc part picker... Either would be a huge upgrade for my AMD Phenom x3 Rana 455 (4th core unlocked). I haven't OC'd in the past, but I have a decent PSU sitting on my desk waiting for my mobo/cpu upgrade, so I am willing to try OC if it doesn't give me too much trouble. I am also using a Coolermaster Hyper 212+.
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I5... 4690K or 6500
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rolli59
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Those ticks although very few exist and will only become more in the future http://www.techspot.com/review/1089-fallout-4-benchmarks/page5.html therefore I would keep the option open for similarly performing CPU's.
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i5-4690k is future proofed. I'll have this in my build till days end. Running with a 980ti and @4.7Ghz I've performed incredibly well in every benchmark. It does not bottle neck anything and never will bottleneck. Its also incredible to overclock. My boost rates hit 5Ghz when my fans are maxed from my h100i. Also most of the chips are capable of being overclocked better due to the IOPs transistors headroom.
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The 4690k can be overclocked, the 6500 not really. Maybe a slight baseclock increase, not the same as an unlocked multiplier. I'd venture to say the 4690k would perform the same or faster in every situation. It's not really a fair comparison though, apples to apples would be the 4690k to 6600k and there still isn't much difference other than price.
For pure gaming overclocking isn't really essential. In light of that though it opens up other choices like the 4590 which is also a locked cpu. For around $227 you can go with a 1231v3 which is plenty for gaming and has the hyper threading which may help for streaming or video editing. It's also a locked cpu, similar to the i7 4770 (non k) but lacks the igpu.
Most people don't upgrade within the same generation from an i5 to i7 or even to the next gen. It's simply not cost efficient even recovering some money off the old hardware from selling it. The performance gains aren't there. Following intel's classic 'tick/tock' pattern, the tick is when a die is shrunk down and is an efficiency improvement over the previous tock. The tock is the performance bump. Haswell/devil's canyon was a 'tock', broadwell offered no real improvements but went from 22nm to 14nm and is a 'tick'. Skylake is still on the 14nm and offers performance over broadwell and is a 'tock'.
The next likely cpu will also be on the lga1151 and will be a 'tick' refining the process to 10nm but with no real gains over skylake (which explains why it's pointless to upgrade just 1 generation). What comes next will be another 'tock' and odds are it will be on yet another socket just like ivy/haswell switched sockets, broadwell/skylake switched sockets etc. Anymore any intel board is 'at its end' as soon as it's released. Boards don't last 3-4 generations anymore and should be bought as a 'set' with the cpu intended rather than with hopes of hanging onto the board for several builds.
For pure gaming overclocking isn't really essential. In light of that though it opens up other choices like the 4590 which is also a locked cpu. For around $227 you can go with a 1231v3 which is plenty for gaming and has the hyper threading which may help for streaming or video editing. It's also a locked cpu, similar to the i7 4770 (non k) but lacks the igpu.
Most people don't upgrade within the same generation from an i5 to i7 or even to the next gen. It's simply not cost efficient even recovering some money off the old hardware from selling it. The performance gains aren't there. Following intel's classic 'tick/tock' pattern, the tick is when a die is shrunk down and is an efficiency improvement over the previous tock. The tock is the performance bump. Haswell/devil's canyon was a 'tock', broadwell offered no real improvements but went from 22nm to 14nm and is a 'tick'. Skylake is still on the 14nm and offers performance over broadwell and is a 'tock'.
The next likely cpu will also be on the lga1151 and will be a 'tick' refining the process to 10nm but with no real gains over skylake (which explains why it's pointless to upgrade just 1 generation). What comes next will be another 'tock' and odds are it will be on yet another socket just like ivy/haswell switched sockets, broadwell/skylake switched sockets etc. Anymore any intel board is 'at its end' as soon as it's released. Boards don't last 3-4 generations anymore and should be bought as a 'set' with the cpu intended rather than with hopes of hanging onto the board for several builds.
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