Which i7 should I get?

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my budget is up in the air I just need a i7 that fits my type of games. I usually play cpu heavy games like crysis 3, Planetside 2, gw2, and arma 3. Also I render videos in Adobe premiere.
 
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The best CPU is still the i7 4960k. It gets the best OC and adds a couple more frames over the newer CPU's, however there are reason you might wanna go with a newer CPU. If you want DDR4 you have to get a 5th or 6th gen CPU. If you do rendering and editing, the 5th and 6th gen cpu's are better for that. If you are mostly straight gaming, just save yourself money and get a few more frames using an i7 4960k. The frame difference is small so don't feel bad if you choose to go with the newer cpu's, but realize that it won't help gaming at all by...
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Those games wont benefit from an i7 6700 over i5 6600
 
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I believe the " Also I render videos in Adobe premiere" part plays a part in the recommendation. Those games won't benefit from an i7 6700 over an i5 6600, but Adobe's software will.
 
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Sorry for my vagueness I bought a motherboard with a LGA 1151 socket and I'm fairly new to Intel CPUs. I have been using an amd cpu for a couple of years but than decided to upgrade the gpu to a gtx 960 4gb and reallised that the cpu is bottlenecking the gpu a lot. Running tests in gta v all my CPU cores were maxed out to 100% and my gpu was just at about 40% maybe. Can someone explain why an i7 6700k (i will overclock it) worse than a i5 6600k in terms of playing thoses games I mentioned before?
 
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The best CPU is still the i7 4960k. It gets the best OC and adds a couple more frames over the newer CPU's, however there are reason you might wanna go with a newer CPU. If you want DDR4 you have to get a 5th or 6th gen CPU. If you do rendering and editing, the 5th and 6th gen cpu's are better for that. If you are mostly straight gaming, just save yourself money and get a few more frames using an i7 4960k. The frame difference is small so don't feel bad if you choose to go with the newer cpu's, but realize that it won't help gaming at all by getting a newer CPU. It will be within 3-5fps at most.
 
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Hey Creedmaster which mobo are you using?
And for your socket you can't use hexa or octa core i7's .
i7 6700k will be pretty good if it fits in your budget
 
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Thank you for the for warning about the hexa and octa cores I did not know that. This is the link to my mobo. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132691
I'm probably sold on the i7 6700k. Is there any other compatibility issues I should be wary about?
 
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Your mobo seems nice for overclocking but have you done it in the past?
 
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Yeah I experimented with overclocking a bit in the past I just need a refresher thanks for the respond :)
 
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