CPU choice advice I5 6500 vs i5 6600k

Jonofreclaw · Jun 10, 2016

Soon i will be upgrading to a new CPU and i am deciding whether to go with the I5 6500 or the i5 6600k. Im not a huge overclocker but i just wanna make sure that i have enough CPU power to be able to later on buy a GTX 1070.

Nuckles_56 · Jun 10, 2016

Both the CPUs will be more than sufficient when paired with the gtx 1070

bloodroses · Jun 10, 2016

If you plan on running virtual machines at all, I'd recommend the i5 6500 over the i5 6600k as the 6500 supports vPro. Here are links giving feature sets of the 2 chips from Intel's website.

http://ark.intel.com/products/88184/Intel-Core-i5-6500-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_60-GHz

http://ark.intel.com/products/88191/Intel-Core-i5-6600K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

Nuckles_56 · Jun 10, 2016

Where did this virtual machines business come from? As the OP never mentioned it

bloodroses · Jun 10, 2016

I'm just listing the options is all. When I picked up my i5 4670l haswell a few years ago for gaming, I wish I had knew that information beforehand as I barely overclock it and run Virtualbox machines quite a bit now.

The GROOT I am · Jun 10, 2016

Both CPUs are great.

And with the right MB You can OC even the i5 6500 and while benchmarking the OCed 6500 beated even i7 6700k not OCed. But OCing non K CPUs has some downsides so if you are not budget limited I'd go for 6600k over 6500. Or! If you really do not want to OC you can pick i7 6700 non-K that is absolutely fine with stock cooler w/o OC. So that might be the option for you.

Also wait for AMD cards. Maybe they will be better, maybe not or maybe just the same performance. Either way the prices will drop as Nvidia is utterly overpriced right now due to no competition. Of course RX480 is not a direct competitor to GTX 10XX series but it should still perform similiar to GTX 980 for half the price and that is more than enuff for 1080p gaming. So IMHO wait till october when Vega might come to see what card is better or how the prices will drop.

Cheers!

JakePC12 · Jun 14, 2016

RX480 is the 1080p vaming sweetspot if you're not buying a 1440p no point

uguv · Jun 14, 2016

bloodroses :

The OP never mentioned virtualization and if he or she had I would definitely recommend an i7 over either i5. Also, vt-x and vt-d are the important parts for virtualization and both processors have that technology. The core of vPro is for remote management which isn't needed for virtualization at all.

@OP, either processor will work fine with the 1070. If you think you might want to do a little overclocking in the future go with the 6600k, otherwise stick with the 6500.

Search

CPU choice advice I5 6500 vs i5 6600k

Jonofreclaw

Reputable

uguv

Nuckles_56

Admirable

bloodroses

Distinguished

Nuckles_56

Admirable

bloodroses

Distinguished

The GROOT I am

Commendable

JakePC12

Reputable

uguv

Distinguished

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page