What's better for gaming a locked i7 7700 or an i5 7600K ?

What's better for gaming a locked i7 7700 or an i5 7600K ?

take the locked cpu OP, smart choice, best choice.

I5. Games dont use hyperthreading

Locked I7

You forgot about battlefield 1.

7700

well for starters do you actually know how to overclock and do you have a nice cooler to do it? vast majority of people who buy k chips only buy them for the warm blanket of "its there when i need it" and they never use it and end up over spending on an oc'er z board board as well.

on the other hand a handful of games actually use hyperthreading and you need to research which games do and if you actually play those games.

or you can just get whatever's cheaper and use the savings for a nicer gpu.

Why would you be willing to shell out $310 for a 7700 but be unwilling to toss an extra $30 for the K? It's a pretty big performance difference.

intel X.M.P. exist for a reason its for tech illiterate people to OC to a stable clock without having to do anything but select the right profile.

If you're too cheap to shell out for the 7700k then go for the 7600k or Ryzen. Locked Intel CPUs are garbage.

>buying intel
holy kek

i think everyone forgot about that shitheap

>Games don't need more than 8gb ram
>Games don't use more than 4gb VRAM
>Games don't use more than 2 cores
>Games don't use more than 4 cores
>Vulcan won't be good
>DX 12 is a meme

Go back to bed Sup Forums

xmp is for memory u dip.

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I know right lol

A 4790k @ 5GHz.

no xmp is for retards who buy high speed ram and thinks it makes a difference for anything other than igpus

The one exception to 1 is planetary annihilation
One exception to #2 is modded skyrim
One exception to 3 & 4 are recent dx12 & vulkan supporting games
dx12 is a meme tho.

Hyperthreading is useless for games.
Tested many times on my virtualized setup.

Get a ryzen CPU, will pay off later for games, instant gratification for production and editing now. Tbh...

Well shit I guess I'm one of the 0.01% of the people that likes to abuse his sytem and push it to the max when it comes to gaming and with really demanding games.

always near or at 100% of use when doing my daily shit and gets slowed down to a crawl.

If multithreading is your shtick you can pick up v1 xeons these days for ~70 bucks after facebook dropped thousands of them on ebay.

Except that's flat out wrong now, there's plenty of newer games like BF1 that are taking advantage of >4 cores. Is the difference worth ~$100? that depends on the person, but you will definitely get CPU capped with only 4 cores if you've got a good video card.