KVR Audio

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 1:36 pm

i still got a i5 2320 cpu and wanted to get a 6700k but people recommended me to keep my mainboard and just get a 2700k cause it is not worh to pay about 400 - 500 bucks more to get a 6700k which is only 5-10% faster to a 2700k. but thats what gaming people told me, how is it in the VST world?

should i get a significant boost to upgrade to a 2700k?
or better upgrade to 6700k?

thanks

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:17 pm

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/In ... 3502vs1985

Conclusion: the 6700K outperforms the 2700K by a fair margin while it's even $60 cheaper!
Should be no surprise, 4 years extra development should have payed off.

Kaine · Post by **Kaine** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 10:37 am

Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz = 11106
Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.50GHz = 8783

Don't pay too much attention to gamers when it comes to CPU performance, its not important to them in the large part.

I saw an article last month that claims that you only see 5% performance difference in gaming between a 2008 Q6600 and a 2016 6600K (they may even be referencing this), which might be true when your playing games that do 95% of the processing on the GPU, but doesn't really reflect the 250% increase that is shown in benchmarking and indeed reflected in real world use with software that makes use of the CPU rather than offloading everything to a £/$450 GPU.

The exceptions tend to be 4X gamers or some RTS gamers when they complain about CPU. Games like Stellaris on the large map settings and hundreds of thousands of units to manage and track slaughters my CPU far more effectively than stacking instances of Vengeance and DIVA once you hit end game, but those titles are the exception to the rule in general.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 10:48 am

VSTs use only CPU for processing audio, so it's all that matters. The figure provided by Kaine shows you will see noticeable improvement, but it's not worth buying whole new CPU IMO.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:12 am

Kaine wrote:Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz = 11106
Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.50GHz = 8783

I run my 2700K at 4.2Ghz(*). I reckon that makes it not too bad compared to the 6700K.

(* and for the OC-phobic, it runs cooler than a stock 2700K would, so pthththth)

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:19 am

nice, are there secure OC tutorials for a 2700k?

how good can DIVA, Avenger etc. run with a 2700k?
does anyone experienced a great boost with a 6700k?

jdnz · Post by **jdnz** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:38 am

Caine123 wrote: does anyone experienced a great boost with a 6700k?

apart from the raw cpu speed increase of the 6700 vs 2700, also has anyone seen any real-world gains in big projects due to the inceased memory bandwidth (2700 era would be running ddr3-1333, 6700 would be using ddr4-2133 or better)

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 9:19 am

Caine123 wrote:nice, are there secure OC tutorials for a 2700k?

Not sure what you mean by 'secure' but when I built my system there was a ton of stuff for my motherboard at the time, though Ive no memory of what I actually used as a guide by now. Speeds of up to 4.5Ghz seemed to be easily attainable, and mine would run at that, I just didnt want the temperature increase.

Intel 2700k vs. 6700k not worth to upgrade?