I7 4790k or i7 6700k

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I'm thinking about building a new pc to replace my current amd system for livestreaming so im wondering should I go with the older i7 4790k or the newer i7 6700k both have advantages and disadvantages

i7 4790k
- Older
- Only Supports DDR3
- Slighly better per performance
- Cost a bit less as its older
- Slightly Higher clock speed

i7 6700k
- Newer
- Supports DDR3/DDR4
- Costs mores
- Slightly better performance in some tasks such as bitcoin mining or face detection

I'm not sure what to go with becuase I want a really powerful cpu for livestreaming and some video editing but I also want to last for 3 years or until I can afford to get a better pc

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Please don't mine with your CPU haha. I would go with Skylake, very little point in buying 2 year old hardware that will be supported less and less over the coming years.

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lol I wasnt playing on mining but I was looking at some bench marks on cpuboss anyway xD

I'm thinking about going with skylake or maybe wait until next year and see what intel releases then

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Do you intend to OC? I'd assume you are intending to if you're looking at K parts but just checking.

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yeah I think ill overclock them in the future once I get better cooling

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get 4790k

95% of the performance, 85% of the costs

I have the number one 4790k here when it comes to single thread fyi

https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/share-your-cpu-z-benchmark-scores-v1-75-or-later/101063

yes this is one benchmark but it shows the MINUSCULE difference if performance

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Yeah the IPC difference between Haswell and Skylake is minuscule, its really just down to if you want the newer features that Z170 provides over Z97

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Woa there cowboy actually taking the mean of the results the 4790ks got about 92.53% of the performance for single-thread and 90.24% of the performance for the multi-thread in comparison to the 6700ks. That is, however, mixing OC'd and non-OC'd chips.

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Misleading, the 6700k got +8% better single and +11% better multi thread results overall. That's like the results of a good OC.

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If you can get the 4790K $40-50 cheaper go for that, if no, go for the 6700k