skylake vs kaby lake

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Pc6777

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ok at microcenter I can get an i5 6600k for 180 dollars plus a 30 dollar discount on the motherboard, or a 7600k for 200 plus no discount on a motherboard, so especially the 7600k will cost me 50 dollars more than the 6600k, the benchmarks are similar on the two cups and they seem to preform closely in games, so the 6600k seems to be a much better buy, but are there any features of cabby lake that make it more future proof? like will I regret not going with kaby lake for certain features of is sky lake the way to go in this situation? Also, I don't care much for rysens 8 core cpus and there over my budget right now and the waiting list will probably be very long and there mid range cpus arnt coming out for a few months and I'm using an fx 6300 right now and I cant deal with this 30 fps garbage any longer I want a real gaming pc. so out of these two does kaby lake support any new stuff or have any valuable features over skylake that's worth 50 dollars(I already know they oc better) or is it a waste? also for the motherboard, I need a z270 board to oc right? if not what's the cheapest board I can get to oc with? also while im at it will 16 gigs of ddr4 give me any more future proneness/performance over 8 gigs or will it really matter? like will some games in a few years require more than 8 gigs to run? plus will games start requiring more than 4 cores to run any time soon?
 
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You won't notice any difference between the two CPUs in gaming, none whatsoever. If the money is better used elsewhere, it is a no-brainer. Go with the Skylake.
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envy14tpe

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Going the 6600k route will save you $50. And it performs more or less the same as the 7600k. I'd just get the 6600k and a Z170 mobo. Yes, you need a "Z" series mobo to overclock. And don't forget to get a decent air cooler. By saving $50 I'd recommend 16gb RAM. It'll last you 4 years easily.

Don't worry about the number of cores for gaming. As long as you got 4 solid cores you'll be fine for at least 4 years. When you compare a six core i7-6800k to 4 core i7-6700k the 4 core does slightly better in games. So, no need for 6 or 8 cores for gaming.
 
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cryoburner

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I'm sure that games will benefit from having 16GB of RAM relatively soon, at least if you're running them at higher settings. However, RAM is something that's easy and inexpensive to upgrade later, especially if you have spare RAM slots on your motherboard. If your board has 4 slots, for example, you could always fill two if them now, and add additional memory later when you have the need for it.

As for cores, I suspect games will likely run decently on quad-core processors for at least a few years still. 6 and 8 core processors are not particularly common in gaming systems yet, and even if they start to become more popular once Ryzen helps drive down their price, it will take a while for there to be enough of an install-base before developers really start focusing on optimizing games for them. Having more than four cores is not likely to be a requirement any time soon, though we may start to see some games get additional performance benefits from them.
 
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