i5-6600 (non k) or i7-6700 (non k) w/ MSI gtx 970

GreiverBlade · Mar 22, 2016

I get your point

The 6600 will be enough, even on the long run

that CPU is still a beast K or not.

With the money sparred get some games or accessories (keyboard mouse mousemat etc)

The 6700 will make no huge difference in the end.

Peip · Mar 23, 2016

Well, after finishing up my research with the help of Youtube, cpu sites, other tech sites and this forum i've decided to go with CyperPowerPC. It's got the 15 6600 that is only slightly lower than the i7 6700 in terms of frame rate & has a fractionally lower clock speed and is ultimately the better option for my budget. While the i7 does have hyper threading, the only time it will really shine is when i'm editing which is rarely and cyperpowerpc's 4x ram slots opposed to ibuypower's 2x which will come in very handy with my music making in FL studio. Thanks for the help with deciding. :]

rtwjunkie · Mar 23, 2016

Please let us know how it turns out once it has arrived and you've been able to use it a bit.

Peip · Mar 23, 2016

I will. I'll be uploading a review video on youtube about the pc once i'm ready to do so. I'll link the video into my initial post. Thanks to everyone again. :]

Peip · Apr 30, 2016

Hey everyone, I finally got my pc. I was originally going to get the Cyberpowerpc but I actually went with the Ibuypower one. I've had it for about 2 weeks now and it's wonderful. It runs FL studio 12 fantastically. Loaded up my most demanding project (7 different vsti's, a total of 18 mixer plugins & 6:49 long) in 6 separate FL Studio instances of the same project to test out the i7's usage and it ended up using only about 60-70%. The gtx 970 can run games like Black Desert, WoW, Guild Wars 2, Warframe, EVE online on high-max settings across all of them. When it came to really stressing the 970 (stock clock) I went with the gpu melter, Crysis 3 (in heavy combat it runs at 40's-60 fps on HIGH whereas on ULTRA it dips down to high 20's in heavy combat). The case runs quite cool too even with it having just stock fans. Haven't had any hardware issue either. Overall, i'm very satisfied with it. I'm still planning on making a video "review" about it, don't know when I'll have the video done but it will be done sometime, but I just wanted to pop by and let everyone know that I haven't forgotten about this thread and i'm happy with the pc. :]

Shou Miko · Apr 30, 2016

little cat said:
Both rigs would max out any game . i7 6700 would help a bit for SLI GTX 970 in the future . But single GPU PC is always better and it is not clear if SLI is possible . Also GTX 970 + i5 6600 will last years without upgrade . Thus I would be happy with either of the rigs . They havent listed which mobo or PSU are used so It cant be taken into account

In the end : If $1000 is more acceptable , I would get I5 6600 + GTX 970

honestly not a card i would SLI with a lot of games having slow down issues using more than 3,5GB of vram...

and congratz @Peip with ur i7-6700 hope it will last u a long time, and now use that HT :roll:

(Saying the one with a 6700k) :lovetpu:

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i5-6600 (non k) or i7-6700 (non k) w/ MSI gtx 970

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