I screwed up

[StuMan35]

Noob question alert!!

9 months ago I built a really fast 1080p PC. I chose at that time to go with an I5 6600k as my cpu.

I made a mistake which I did not figure out till after it was too late that I had purchased the i5-6600 and not the i5-6600k

I am preparing for the eventual release of the 1080ti and I wanted to get a new monitor soon for 4k, but I am really worried that I am going to be CPU limited.

Thoughts?? Am I screwed in the pooch?

 

[ImmortanMoe]

I do not think the 6600k is that different from the 6600 apart from the overclocking bit. And the i5 6600/6600k is definitely not that old or weak to bottle neck the 1080ti. Get a drink!!

 

[bicycle_repair_man]

Whether or not an i5-6600 bottlenecks a GTX 1080 Ti remains to be seen, but I'd be almost certain that you've anything to worry about.

 

[logainofhades]

You will be fine. Gaming is more reliant on the GPU, 99.9% of games.

 

[dangus]

did you plan on overclocking? because otherwise you'll be completely fine. the 6600 is almost identical to the 6600k. only difference is the base frequency is 3.3 instead of 3.5ghz. either way, unless you're disappointed that you can't overclock, you will be totally fine. i wouldn't say 99.9% of games are GPU reliant, its probably more like 90% but either way it's not going to bottleneck a 1080ti.

 

[ImmortanMoe]

Whether or not an i5-6600 bottlenecks a GTX 1080 Ti remains to be seen, but I'd be almost certain that you've anything to worry about.

The i5 6600 bottle necking the 1080 Ti would be like Donald Trump winning the elections.

 

[StuMan35]

did you plan on overclocking? because otherwise you'll be completely fine. the 6600 is almost identical to the 6600k. only difference is the base frequency is 3.3 instead of 3.5ghz. either way, unless you're disappointed that you can't overclock, you will be totally fine. i wouldn't say 99.9% of games are GPU reliant, its probably more like 90% but either way it's not going to bottleneck a 1080ti.

Thanks everyone for the info! I really do not want to overclock if i do not have to but i thought that buying that cpu over the i7 was that overclocking was a done deal. How much extra performance would that k processor give me over what i have now do you think?

 

[James Mason]

Thanks everyone for the info! I really do not want to overclock if i do not have to but i thought that buying that cpu over the i7 was that overclocking was a done deal. How much extra performance would that k processor give me over what i have now do you think?

unless you manually OC'd the 6600k higher than what it comes at, there is no extra performance.

Both the 6600 and 6600k will go as high as 3.9GHz at out of the box settings, the 6600 just stays a bit lower when not in full use.