Fappa Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 I know both are kinda overkill (or at least they should be), but I was wondering which would be better for SWTOR. Gonna be building a new computer anyway and can't decide between the two. (Note that I'm not looking for overall PC building advice a la, "you should get neither, you should save money and get X"...I'm specifically asking about these two and how they'd probably compare for SWTOR) Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMcFarla Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 I would highly recommend against the Skylake. Here is a reddit discussion about it with a link to the benchmarks. A tl;dr from one of the posters in that thread "In conclusion: Reduced gaming performance vs. Haswell, increased platform cost vs. Haswell, inferior overclocking vs. Haswell, stagnant clockspeeds, a new dead end socket, and it trips over the corpse of Broadwell while entering the channel. This is a bad launch. Keep your Haswells. Hell, keep your Ivy Bridges. You gain nothing by jumping to Skylame." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdi_knght Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Gonna be building a new computer anyway and can't decide between the two. <snip> I'm specifically asking about these two and how they'd probably compare for SWTOR) Take a look at the CPU comparison here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1320?vs=1543 The 6700K has better single-thread performance, worse multi-threaded performance. In SWTOR, it'll probably be "better". But not "better" to the point where you'd actually notice a difference. If you're planning on overclocking, both should make it to around the ~4.5Ghz mark (unless you get lucky or unlucky), and it could very well be a wash. --- Look at secondary aspects that are important to you. Skylake is a little more "future proofed", but the 5820K will do better if you're encoding movies/etc. If SWTOR is the literally the only concern, and particularly if you're overclocking, it really doesn't matter a whole lot and I'd be inclined to just buy based on total system cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heat-Wave Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 My son plays SWTOR on a basic Sandy Bridge based Dell machine with a Core i5 CPU and a GTX 960 and the game plays just fine. The computer has a clean install of Windows 8.1 and we have a good net connection. I have come to suspect that a lot of people complaining of performance issues on high end machines really have poor net connections, I've found this game is quite playable on even a Core i7-920 machine with an AMD 5850 card on a 1080p monitor. Note, the game doesn't need bandwidth, saying you have a 50 meg net connection means nothing, the game doesn't even use 1 meg. What you need is a low ping time, low jitter, and few hops to the server with no congestion along the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediQuaker Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 I'd say that it would be a toss up overall - you wouldn't see any real performance difference between an i5-4690, i5-6600K, i7-6700K, or any Haswell-E. In particular, the difference between an 6700K and a 5820K would be minimal. This assumes a single high-end graphics card. You might be better off with the 5820K if you plan to use multiple graphics cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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