I'm looking for people running 2600s and 4670s. I have the option to upgrade to either but, since I do a lot of compute and BNGD, I thought the 2600 might be worth it. (Same price, $219.) Anyone willing to test with 1-2-3-5-10 etc. cars (with graphics on lowest to get that out of the way) to give me an idea? I'm leaning towards the 4670k, but not 100%.
2600k will overclock higher but the 4670k is faster in single threaded stuff out of the box. 2600k is an i7 so it has hyperthreading and larger cache. 4670k will consume less power. they are very similar otherwise, benchmarks would be kind of silly considering the performance changes coming in the race update. basing your purchase on an extra 5fps in this one game is a little silly.
I also do a lot of compute and some rendering. I am also starting a YouTube channel and twitch streaming along with thread heavy games like modded mc and BNGD.
Been running a 2600k for exactly one year now, with a very insignificant OC (still less than 4 GHz, 3.9 IIRC. Still on the stock cooler, don't want to push it too far.) I'll do some tests when I get back to my system, but last I remember 8 Bolides on Small Island was a pretty playable 23-27 FPS maxxed out w/ a GTX 760. EDIT: If compute-heavy tasks like video/3D rendering and BeamNG are involved, I would take the older i7 over the newer i5 without question. If it was just gaming/not BeamNG, the i5 would suffice. EDIT2: If you want to do heavy overclocking, (maybe not, OP makes no mention of K series variants) the i7 would likely be better, unless you want to delid your chip, which is moderately dangerous and voids your warranty.
I want to at least let all cores boost to the max turbo (vs the 1/2/4/4 has going) and might go up to low 4Ghz area. Not much.
well, one thing your not taking into account, is the driver's, a newer cpu will obviously have newer driver's, and better driver support for quite a lot of things
I'd personally get the i7, so you don't have to worry about putting your processor in a vice and assaulting it with a wood block/taking a razor blade to it in the quest for better temps. The only way the i5 beats out the i7 is single-threaded tasks, which from your description it sounds like you want better multithreaded performance. EDIT: You wot, m8? Do you mean newer instruction sets? AFAIK we're looking at keeping amd64 around for a long time now. The 4670k may have better ways of interpreting amd64, but it's still amd64. It's like using two different compilers to compile the same C++ code. Both end result programs will do the same thing equally well, one may just be insignifigantly quicker at doing it than the other. That doesn't seem to be the case in multithreaded tasks, however, as most all benches are reporting the 2600k does better in that regard.
actually, i was thinking of the chipset, my mistake (i already know im on an igpu(planning to upgrade soon), but i was thinking of the chipset, not the cpu, as i said, my mistake, but to be fair, one can't run without the other)
The 2600k was sold. Now all I would have is ebay chips. A 4770k is a "mere" $70 more than the 4670k, but I don't have that EDIT: 1.6k
Unless you are going to make use of the i7's hyperthreading, a 4670k will be plenty for pretty much anything. Heavy video editing, etc... would benefit from an i7 over the i5, but that choice is up to you.
i believe a 3570k is the 'best' processor out of the ~$200 intel lineup right now. it is newer than the 2600k generation and overclocks far better than the 4670k. as an offtopic side note, every teenage kid on the internet who is building a computer says they do rendering, minecraft, youtube videos, twitch streaming, etc. i dislike the culture that monetizing video games has created. all of the intel processors in the same price range will perform very similarly.
To be fair, my 2600k came from eBay, along with a motherboard, for $260. The guy accidentallied the mobo right before sending it out (AMD guy, not familliar with how to insert the CPU into the LGA1155 socket w/o damage). Refunded $100, bought same model mobo for $80. Processor works beautifully.
haha never thought that needed to be said ! i like to keep this link handy for cpu and gpu benchmarks http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php its not an end all be all , but its a good start for looking into different cpu's, old and new.
