I need opinions

WhyKlef

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Aug 13, 2016
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Hey guys,

I have a i7 3770k which I feel is far from being dead for general gaming purposes (which I do mainly) but I now am a serious streamer so my needs have changed and my CPU is a lot more stressed.

Here are the options:
-Buy a liquid cooler and try OC'ing (gamble)
-Buy a newer CPU, looking particularly @ 5820k, 6700k, 6800k (costs)

So between these four options, which one do you guys think is better?

Thanks in advance!
 
Solution
The 5820K. It offers more cores than the 6700K and has all of the streaming related instruction sets that Skylake has. The 6800K does run faster, but I just can't justify the price for it.

WhyKlef

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Aug 13, 2016
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What about OC'ing?

I'm thinking the liquid cooler option is interesting because I could keep the cooler for later CPU upgrades but it is also a gamble, I could just have a bad chip for OC plus there is the headache and time associated to finding the right settings. But I feel like if I can achieve a good clock, I could even outperform a stock 5820k, 6700k, 6800k.

But you're saying that Skylake has specific features for streaming specifically? I'll Google that right now!
 
I didn't say that... I said that the 5xxx series has the same streaming related instruction sets as the 6xxx series. Although these newer CPUs would likely be better optimized for newer software than the 3770K.

When done properly, an overclocked 5820K will outperform a 6700K and 6800K at stock clocks. This is why I don't see the reason to pay more, just to have Skylake.
 

scuzzycard

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The 5820K and 6800K have very low stock clocks compared to the 6700K, but they overclock well. In this situation, where the target usage is streaming, and the user plans to overclock, Skylake's architectural refinement can't compensate for the having 4 cores vs 6. It's a toss-up between the 5820K and the 6800K - the 6800K is maybe 3% faster clock-for-clock, while the 5820K will overclock just a bit more on average to compensate.
 

WhyKlef

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Aug 13, 2016
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@weberdarren97 Sorry for my misunderstanding and thank you for your answer. @scuzzycard Thank you for your inputs.

So the breakdown is 6-cores for multithreading is the way to go regardless and the price per performance for the 5820k vs 6800k makes the first option more appealing. Cheers and thank you!