My MBP has a dual core i5.
At some point, I plan on getting a really, really nice machine that preferably has on the order of 8-12 cores like my machine at work. I love the idea of being able to have a ton of crap open without worrying about the machine slowing down. I usually like to have several adobe products and IDEs open at once, which usually causes my laptop to get a bit grouchy. 😛
At some point, I plan on getting a really, really nice machine that preferably has on the order of 8-12 cores like my machine at work. I love the idea of being able to have a ton of crap open without worrying about the machine slowing down. I usually like to have several adobe products and IDEs open at once, which usually causes my laptop to get a bit grouchy. 😛
I'm glad that I'm the luck one that has two very good CPU for gaming 🙂
I have i7 4710HQ 2.50GHz, 4 cores and 8 Logical (laptop)
Desktop is an i7 3930K 3.20GHz, 6 cores and 6 Logical
I have i7 4710HQ 2.50GHz, 4 cores and 8 Logical (laptop)
Desktop is an i7 3930K 3.20GHz, 6 cores and 6 Logical
Skeezix the Cat
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I have a 5820k (currently) at 4GHz flat. I usually try to run it at 4.2-4.3 but ran into some issues recently and had to reset all the Magic bios numbers and apparently I didn't save them. I lost the silicon lottery on this one. It simply does not go over 4.3GHz, period. At least not on all cores. I can get it to hit 4.5 on two, maybe three if I tried and possibly 4.6 on one but that doesn't really count in my opinion.
As for the 6700k being better, it might be if all you did was gaming. But for streaming I would still get the 5820k because it is far from weak in the single threaded department. On top of being nearly as fast in single tasks, the 6700k can barely touch it when it comes to running multiple things at once. You also get the brand new LGA 2011-v3 socket which will likely last longer than the mainstream boards the 6700k goes in. Then, as some have mentioned, you get more PCI lanes which is useful even if you don't use multiple GPUs. I have a PCI-e sound card and USB 3.0 expansion card and plan on adding a PCI SSD in the future. It all depends on your needs.
It's not like there's much of a price difference between the two chips anyway 😛
As for the 6700k being better, it might be if all you did was gaming. But for streaming I would still get the 5820k because it is far from weak in the single threaded department. On top of being nearly as fast in single tasks, the 6700k can barely touch it when it comes to running multiple things at once. You also get the brand new LGA 2011-v3 socket which will likely last longer than the mainstream boards the 6700k goes in. Then, as some have mentioned, you get more PCI lanes which is useful even if you don't use multiple GPUs. I have a PCI-e sound card and USB 3.0 expansion card and plan on adding a PCI SSD in the future. It all depends on your needs.
It's not like there's much of a price difference between the two chips anyway 😛
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