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I am building a brand new PC and finally switching from a life long passion for AMD to see what all the fuss is about with Intel. So I find myself in a deadlock between these two processors. My primary function will be gaming with a few background processes going on (20 tab chrome, music, etc.).
i7 6700K
On the one hand, the Skylake seems to be the intuitive choice as it is the cutting edge generation with the z170 chipset, higher IPC, and greater OC headroom. My reasons for being hesitant to get this CPU: feels like I'm taking a step back coming from a fx6350 in terms of core count, many of the benches I see seem to give the 5820k a healthy lead in full CPU utilization (and some in real world fps), and the APU in the chip may be under-utilized in potential synergy with dedicated GPU in DX12.
i7 5820K
On the other hand, the Haswell-E seems to me to be the wiser choice with its additional serial/logical cores, same features (hyper-threading), competitive OC range (reading people getting 4.5 stable on first prime run), and possible future proofing (increased multi-core support). My reasons against the 5820k: I feel like committing to the x99 would lock me into an older esoteric architecture with a higher overhead (quad channel ddr4, PCIE channels), the single core bandwidth (I am looking to play WoW and other MMORPGS), and I am not really a GPU enthusiast so I will most likely stick with a single r9 290x.
I sort of want to pop my Intel cherry the right way by getting the 6700k, but if I can overcome superficial novelty maybe the 5820k is a gem in the rough. Please tell me to get the skylake
i7 6700K
On the one hand, the Skylake seems to be the intuitive choice as it is the cutting edge generation with the z170 chipset, higher IPC, and greater OC headroom. My reasons for being hesitant to get this CPU: feels like I'm taking a step back coming from a fx6350 in terms of core count, many of the benches I see seem to give the 5820k a healthy lead in full CPU utilization (and some in real world fps), and the APU in the chip may be under-utilized in potential synergy with dedicated GPU in DX12.
i7 5820K
On the other hand, the Haswell-E seems to me to be the wiser choice with its additional serial/logical cores, same features (hyper-threading), competitive OC range (reading people getting 4.5 stable on first prime run), and possible future proofing (increased multi-core support). My reasons against the 5820k: I feel like committing to the x99 would lock me into an older esoteric architecture with a higher overhead (quad channel ddr4, PCIE channels), the single core bandwidth (I am looking to play WoW and other MMORPGS), and I am not really a GPU enthusiast so I will most likely stick with a single r9 290x.
I sort of want to pop my Intel cherry the right way by getting the 6700k, but if I can overcome superficial novelty maybe the 5820k is a gem in the rough. Please tell me to get the skylake