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The RAM won't work in quad channel with your CPU (Dual channel max).
What resolution do you play at?
Quoting myself...
Made sense you were playing@1440p+ when looking at benchmark results!
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The RAM won't work in quad channel with your CPU (Dual channel max).
What resolution do you play at?
Digital foundry only showed 10 FPS less for a stock i5 6600k at 3.6GHz compaired to i7 6700k at 4.0GHz in GTA V and he said the i5 6600k can mach the i7 6700k with a little overclocking.
Hyper threading only adds a little percentage it is not real cores, it just threads into a single core when it can. The real difference from the i5 6600k and i7 6700k is clock speed.
Wrong, it is not HT that is making the difference it is the clock speed, you can't link a gaming benchmark clock for clock with a i5 6600k to i7 6700k, you just pay more for hardly any retun in gaming.
Talking about consoles and desktops, i5 vs i7 in general, watch the 1st video from ~8m, he shows and explains exactly my point (also made me rethink 6600k bottlenecking) :
CPU Showdown Part 1! Will a 1st Gen Core i5 or i7 Bottleneck a GTX 1070?
CPU Showdown Part 2! Can DX12 and Vulkan Save the i7 2600K and i5 2500K?
CPU Showdown Part 3! Is the 6700K the King of Gaming CPUs? And the 2600K Keeps Up with 6600K!
When i buy hardware i do it thinking about it lasting for a few years and giving me the best performance possible, even if i did only game i would have still gone for the 6700k simply because it has more threads, this would be the same reason why in AMD you go for a 6300/8300 instead of a 4300. Most games nowadays are already being coded to use 6+ threads so its clear the i5 is at a disadvantage in the future. Also for some reason the 6700k seems to OC slightly better then the 6600k from the posts i have seen ?
The point would be moot if you could hit your vsync target every time for smooth game play but sadly this is not the case as both games and monitors continue to evolve and require ever more powerful hardware.
EDIT: And i just realized we hijacked yet another thread, my apologies
This is good kind of hijacking, I'm OK with it
As an update, my new RAM is still in transit. It'll arrive tomorrow. I run some benchmarks with the current setup(1X16GB 2138mhz ram) I'll run same benchmarks again after I install the new modules. I'm really curious about the results of this test.
In general, since I gave up on manual overclocking and decided to use preset 4.5Ghz OC. Things are running very smooth. Seems like my problems are mostly solved.
FarCry 4 is still not to my satisfaction, it mostly remains above 60 fps but the wildly fluctuating FPS is causing massive tearing on the screen. Turning V-Sync on is causing input lag.