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A more expensive motherboard gives very little in terms of extra overclocking ability. Mostly what you're paying for are more slots and connectors. The $100 extra that Gigabyte board costs mostly buys you a second M.2 port, some SATA express connectors, Creative sound processing software, LEDs and some colored plastic, none of which is particularly interesting to me, personally.

In most games, a 6600K and 6700K perform identically. It's only when you're trying to do stuff in the background, such as streaming, that there's any discernible difference. i7's also shine if you do non-gaming stuff like encoding, compression, scientific computation, that sort of thing. Back in 2012, when I bought my i5, I judged an i7 not worth the extra...
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Earlier this summer I just finished my FX 8300 build
and really took a blunder on the underwhelming performance of the set-up.
Intel and the 6700 are Hot. I haven't really shopped well, as shown by my hasty choice in that overpriced combo, but I want to build a new PC that performance is seen across the board, not just a flicker of 'maybe'
What really has me down is the fact that I already own a Quad core Athlon 605e paired with an R9 270x, and after benching the FX 8300/R7 370 setup I just come to realize I basically rebuilt what I already had, with 4 more cores and a Solid State Drive. I kind of gained little next to nothing. (R7 370 is an R9 270x according to 3DMark)
Time to move to phase 2.
I want a good, Strong processor, so that is why I'm looking at the i7 6700
 
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A more expensive motherboard gives very little in terms of extra overclocking ability. Mostly what you're paying for are more slots and connectors. The $100 extra that Gigabyte board costs mostly buys you a second M.2 port, some SATA express connectors, Creative sound processing software, LEDs and some colored plastic, none of which is particularly interesting to me, personally.

In most games, a 6600K and 6700K perform identically. It's only when you're trying to do stuff in the background, such as streaming, that there's any discernible difference. i7's also shine if you do non-gaming stuff like encoding, compression, scientific computation, that sort of thing. Back in 2012, when I bought my i5, I judged an i7 not worth the extra costs for my uses, but I wouldn't say it's a bad choice.

Few games will ever fill up 8GB of RAM. 16GB is often recommended in case you want to leave a ton of crap open in the background. 32GB will result in something like 20GB of your RAM remaining empty most of the time. There's also some value in faster RAM.

My recommendation: i7 6700K if you overclock, and 6700 non-K if you don't. Z170 board in the $80-120 range, with the features that are important to you. ~$30-40 cooler if you go with the 6700K, stock cooler if you go with the 6700. 16GB (2x 8GB) DDR4 2800-3200.
 
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Thanks Ecky
that's helpful
 
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