Howdy helpful people,
So I recently took advantage of an offer I couldn't pass up: an i7 6700K and mobo, for, well, dirt cheap. I am currently assembling this.
I do livestreaming on Twitch, and I have a capture card along with a gaming PC that has an i7 4930K. I was wondering: if I were to use one of these machines as a dedicated streaming PC, which would give me better performance? For livestreaming, I'm using OBS, which can take advantage of multiple cores/threads.
Without knowing the major performance differences between the two architectures (Ivy Bridge vs Skylake), it seems as if the 4930K would be the clear choice for the streaming PC, as it has 6 cores/12 threads vs. the 4 cores/8 threads of the 6700K. Is this true, or would the performance difference be marginal or even favor the 6700K?
Of course, the non-streaming PC would then be the gaming PC, but seeing as how both CPUs are overkill for this purpose, I'm not worried about gaming PC performance. Both CPUs will also get mild overclocks; the 4930K is currently at 4.2GHz with a water cooler, and I would do something similar for the 6700K (4.4 - 4.6 perhaps?)
All other components in both machines are relatively "high end" (SSDs, quality RAM and PSUs, etc).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
So I recently took advantage of an offer I couldn't pass up: an i7 6700K and mobo, for, well, dirt cheap. I am currently assembling this.
I do livestreaming on Twitch, and I have a capture card along with a gaming PC that has an i7 4930K. I was wondering: if I were to use one of these machines as a dedicated streaming PC, which would give me better performance? For livestreaming, I'm using OBS, which can take advantage of multiple cores/threads.
Without knowing the major performance differences between the two architectures (Ivy Bridge vs Skylake), it seems as if the 4930K would be the clear choice for the streaming PC, as it has 6 cores/12 threads vs. the 4 cores/8 threads of the 6700K. Is this true, or would the performance difference be marginal or even favor the 6700K?
Of course, the non-streaming PC would then be the gaming PC, but seeing as how both CPUs are overkill for this purpose, I'm not worried about gaming PC performance. Both CPUs will also get mild overclocks; the 4930K is currently at 4.2GHz with a water cooler, and I would do something similar for the 6700K (4.4 - 4.6 perhaps?)
All other components in both machines are relatively "high end" (SSDs, quality RAM and PSUs, etc).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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