i5-11600K vs i7-10700F

Using a z490 mb currently with a i5-10400f and 120mm AIO cooling. Use the pc for World of Warcraft but mostly for some Ag modelling when onsite with farmers. As such, it is in tough temp environments (40 C+ is common in the areas where we go). The work software has a very similar performance profile to WoW so when we look to upgrade, we check the performance and fps on WoW to make our decisions. Managed to score a rx 6700 xt to replace the rx 580 but the 10400f is being shown up now. Memory is tuned to the max, 10400f is running @ close to 4.3Ghz all cores and temp under full loads in the field (ambient around 42 C) never exceeds 75 C.
Our budget is around AUD$400 which seems to be a i5-11600K or i7-10700f. Between the 2 processors, which will run the cooler while producing the highest fps in this sort of setup (currently get 120-160fps in Oribos and lows of 72fps on the Ardenweald run in 1440p Ultra)?

Linux kernel: 5.12.0-rc8-tkg-cfs
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHz
Cores: 12
Architecture: x86_64
Driver: intel_cpufreq

------------------------------ Current CPU stats ------------------------------

CPU max frequency: 4300 MHz
CPU min frequency: 800 MHz

Core Usage Temperature Frequency
CPU0: 5.0% 40 °C 4300 MHz
CPU1: 7.1% 39 °C 4000 MHz
CPU2: 42.0% 47 °C 4300 MHz
CPU3: 6.0% 41 °C 4300 MHz
CPU4: 4.1% 39 °C 4300 MHz
CPU5: 6.1% 39 °C 4300 MHz
CPU6: 4.1% 40 °C 4300 MHz
CPU7: 11.2% 39 °C 4300 MHz
CPU8: 61.9% 47 °C 4000 MHz
CPU9: 11.2% 41 °C 4300 MHz
CPU10: 13.1% 39 °C 4300 MHz
CPU11: 6.1% 39 °C 4300 MHz

i5 will run cooler… but if you have a good Liquid Cooling it shouldn’t matter. WoW will not drive your CPU that much it’s only going to be around 20% usage anyway…

GPU will be the higher temp \ core usage.

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Thanks - was really wondering how a 120mm radiator would do with the i7 (non-K 65w) The i5-11600K has a higher TDP (125w) vs the i7-10700F (65w). With the higher ambient temps, we already know with i5-10400k (65w) that thermals are in the low 70’s C.

IMO it’s better to get 10700 vs the 11600k. Your CPU usage will go up as you have more activities (think Ashran). Newer zones make use of more CPUs cores and newer games are definitely using more CPU cores.

I had the same choice awhile ago to buy either a 11600k or 10700 and chose the 8 core instead.