![]() CPU voltage regulators are no longer on the CPU die, and back on the CPU, like older sockets. Skylake brings an awesome throwback for overclocking. At 2560 x 1440, these test systems aren’t CPU limited in any game. What we gather from all of this is that Sandy Bridge is still plenty for gaming. SuperPI 32M (calculating 32M digits of Pi)Ī minor improvement with the i7 6700k, and no real improvement when overclocking.3DMark Fire Strike (Performance and Extreme modes).3DMark 11 (Performance and Extreme modes).16GB (2 x 8GB) G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 CL15įor this section we tested the i7 6700k and i7 2600 in the following benchmarks:.Swiftech H140-X liquid cooling w/ 1x Noctua NF-A14 iPPC-2000 fan.Intel Core i7 6700k tested at various speeds (detailed throughout the review).Corsair Carbide Air 540 case (2x Silverstone AP181 front intake fans, 1x Silverstone AP141 top exhaust fan).Acer Predator XB270HU monitor (2560 x 1440, 144 Hz, G-SYNC enabled for game benchmarks but disabled for synthetic benchmarks).Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD.MSI GTX 980 GAMING 4G (stock clocks, except for +122% power target).8GB (2 x 4GB) Mushkin Enhanced Radioactive DDR3 1600 CL9.Cooler Master TPC-812 heatsink w/ Panaflo U1 120mm x 38mm fan.Intel Core i7 2600 with turbo mode enabled (4.2 GHz).Lian-Li PC-7HX case (2x Silverstone AP141 front intake fans, 1x Thermalright FDB 2000 top exhaust fan).The following hardware configurations were used for all tests. ![]() So, without further ado, let us begin! Test Systems We will also look at how well the i7 6700k overclocks on the ASUS Maximus VIII Hero Z170 motherboard, with 16GB (2 x 8GB) G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 MHz RAM. Both were compared with turbo mode enabled, driving both to 4.2 GHz, to measure clock for clock performance. In this review, we will look at the performance of the i7 6700k in synthetic benchmarks, games, and compare them to the i7 2600. It uses a very small 14nm fabrication process, comes at 4.0 GHz out of the box (4.2 GHz with turbo mode), features a 95W TDP, and is said to be the best overclocker since Sandy Bridge (i7 2600k namely). It features four cores with up to eight threads thanks to Intel’s Hyperthreading technology. The Intel Core i7 6700k is Intel’s latest high end unlocked processor.
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