Which CPU should I get?
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playingnetwork
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Ecky
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I'd personally take the i7 with an inexpensive B150 board that has 4 RAM slots, but you could go either way; they both achieve the same end. The i5 can get 10-15% extra performance per clock from overclocking, while the i7 has ~30% extra throughput on average. Games are typically more sensitive to per-core performance but both help. Most games today will still be well over 60fps with either, making it an academic matter at best.
Ecky
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Battlefield One shows the i7 6700 as 22% faster than the i5 6600 with a ~2% clockspeed advantage. In order to match the i7, the i5 would need a ~20% overclock, which would bring it to ~4.7ghz, which is not achievable on all i5's - and that's just matching it. The i5 will also be drawing significantly more power at that clockspeed, possibly twice as much as the i7.
Note that both are still showing minimums fast enough for a 144hz monitor, even at stock speeds, making this, again, an academic matter at best.
Note that both are still showing minimums fast enough for a 144hz monitor, even at stock speeds, making this, again, an academic matter at best.
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Ecky :
Battlefield One shows the i7 6700 as 22% faster than the i5 6600 with a ~2% clockspeed advantage. In order to match the i7, the i5 would need a ~20% overclock, which would bring it to ~4.7ghz, which is not achievable on all i5's - and that's just matching it. The i5 will also be drawing significantly more power at that clockspeed, possibly twice as much as the i7.
Note that both are still showing minimums fast enough for a 144hz monitor, even at stock speeds, making this, again, an academic matter at best.
Note that both are still showing minimums fast enough for a 144hz monitor, even at stock speeds, making this, again, an academic matter at best.
That chart is not a good source as it did not even state which skylake motherboard the skylake cpus ran on.
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coalminer071 :
Ecky :
Battlefield One shows the i7 6700 as 22% faster than the i5 6600 with a ~2% clockspeed advantage. In order to match the i7, the i5 would need a ~20% overclock, which would bring it to ~4.7ghz, which is not achievable on all i5's - and that's just matching it. The i5 will also be drawing significantly more power at that clockspeed, possibly twice as much as the i7.
Note that both are still showing minimums fast enough for a 144hz monitor, even at stock speeds, making this, again, an academic matter at best.
Note that both are still showing minimums fast enough for a 144hz monitor, even at stock speeds, making this, again, an academic matter at best.
That chart is not a good source as it did not even state which skylake motherboard the skylake cpus ran on.
What makes you think that the motherboard would make a difference?
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