Can not decide which one suites better for my use case: i5-11600 or i5-11600K? [closed]

Solution 1:

The K variants of Intel CPUs mean that they are unlocked, so you can overclock them if you ever want to.

The TDP in this case is relating to the maximum power each chip will use. Out of the box, the 11600 and K variant will use about the same power.

If you are concerned about the noise of a CPU cooler, you might want to look at getting a third party cooler which will be more efficient and will keep the noise a lot lower. There are plenty of comparisons online.

All that being said, your use case of coding and browsing is going to barely tax either of those processors. I assume that if you are using the built in graphics, you aren't going to be doing any indepth machine learning or anything crazy. So in all reality, you are unlikely to see a real difference between them. The K does give you a little room for future proofing, if you ever want to upgrade your machine further (and looking online, the difference in the UK between the 2 is £10. Get the bigger one ;) )