i7 6700k Owners Club

Dave2150 · 17 Aug 2015 at 18:00

john_park said:
Hi guys, add me to the club.

Mine is running nicely at 4.7GHz at the moment with the cache still at 4GHz, didn't know I could up that too. Currently at 1.35 vcore in the bios.

ROG Maximus Hero Mobo
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz
980Ti
Samsung m.2 SSD 256gb

All water cooled.

Excuse the power supply lead colours, my AX1200i stopped working and is being RMA'd at the moment, back to my trusty ST1000.

Nice setup dude

The Hero VIII sure looks the part

What did you upgrade from btw?

Orangey · 18 Aug 2015 at 04:06

Dunno if this is the right thread...

http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...s-feature-reverse-hyper-threading-technology/

A little light on details but this might be the beginnings of something interesting.

john_park · 18 Aug 2015 at 12:56

Dave2150 said:
Nice setup dude The Hero VIII sure looks the part

What did you upgrade from btw?

Z77 UD5 with a 3770k and a 7970...

This is a nice little upgrade, should see me through the next 3 years or so!

Simon Belmont · 18 Aug 2015 at 13:39

john_park said:
Z77 UD5 with a 3770k and a 7970...

This is a nice little upgrade, should see me through the next 3 years or so!

If not longer.

Dave2150 · 18 Aug 2015 at 19:37

john_park said:
Z77 UD5 with a 3770k and a 7970...

This is a nice little upgrade, should see me through the next 3 years or so!

Nice upgrade, should last you quite a while for sure

I also noticed the M.2 slot on the Maximus Hero VIII (and other Z170 mobo's) have a very long M.2 slot, which supports 2242/2260/2280/22110 sizes.

I can only assume Samsung and the like will be releasing new much higher capacity M.2 SSD's in the future - most likely using the 3D V-NAND etc.

The older Z97 platform seems to only have 2260/2280 size M.2 slots available - so I assume Asus know something big is coming?

spike2011 · 19 Aug 2015 at 11:45

Waiting 8 days still no stock anywhere except Asus cheapest on Matx motherboards for Skylake starting get on my nerves got everything else just the good board I need.
Looks like end of the this month what a joke.

Dave2150 · 20 Aug 2015 at 18:08

spike2011 said:
Waiting 8 days still no stock anywhere except Asus cheapest on Matx motherboards for Skylake starting get on my nerves got everything else just the good board I need.
Looks like end of the this month what a joke.

Seems the demand was quite high, since everywhere sold out at least once already.

Stock should be stable in September, apparently.

haszek · 20 Aug 2015 at 19:28

I'll join as soon as I get my processor (international delivery

), hopefully sometime next week.

Went for gigabyte (gaming7), was hesitating though between ROG Hero

Dave2150 · 20 Aug 2015 at 19:29

haszek said:
I'll join as soon as I get my processor (international delivery ), hopefully sometime next week.

Went for gigabyte (gaming7), was hesitating though between ROG Hero

Nice setup

Dave2150 · 20 Aug 2015 at 19:31

First DX12 benchmarks showing Skylake doing very well, offering slightly better performance than X99:

Source: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/DX12-GPU-and-CPU-Performance-Tested-Ashes-Singularity-Benchmark/Results-Avera

As a single GPU user, it's nice to see that faster clocked quad cores will continue to be faster than slower clocked hex cores, for gaming, even in DX12.

MadMouse101 · 20 Aug 2015 at 19:44

6700k done well to an £800 5960x

esoteric · 20 Aug 2015 at 20:10

Looks like DX12 is real then. As in it can deliver a significant FPS increase.

Daytrader · 20 Aug 2015 at 20:20

But 5960x Base Frequency is only 3 GHz, a whole 1 GHz behind back from the 6720k.

Orangey · 20 Aug 2015 at 23:21

Dave2150 said:
Seems the demand was quite high, since everywhere sold out at least once already.

Stock should be stable in September, apparently.

Not high demand, just low stock.

Standard trick.

faheemrazzaq · 20 Aug 2015 at 23:52

john_park said:
Hi guys, add me to the club.

Mine is running nicely at 4.7GHz at the moment with the cache still at 4GHz, didn't know I could up that too. Currently at 1.35 vcore in the bios.

ROG Maximus Hero Mobo
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz
980Ti
Samsung m.2 SSD 256gb

All water cooled.

Excuse the power supply lead colours, my AX1200i stopped working and is being RMA'd at the moment, back to my trusty ST1000.

Beautiful setup. mobo looks amazing

spike2011 · 21 Aug 2015 at 16:33

Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H just bought this board £93 delivered should get sometime next week not built a new rig since my q6600 system which still have working.

Dave2150 · 21 Aug 2015 at 17:30

spike2011 said:
Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H just bought this board £93 delivered should get sometime next week not built a new rig since my q6600 system which still have working.

Thats one huge upgrade coming your way

Don't forget to let us know how it feels once you've got it built!

opethdisciple · 21 Aug 2015 at 17:35

I'm still non the wiser if this would be worth the upgrade from a 3570k for a gaming PC.

At the moment, my 3570k at stick is fast enough to drive the Witcher 3 and get a nice experience with my 970.

However other games such as Arkham Knight and the new MGS, all 'advertise' i7's.

Either just marketing or legitimate.....

MadMouse101 · 21 Aug 2015 at 18:08

I'm starting to think about buying this CPU.

Orangey · 21 Aug 2015 at 22:30

Will they start making cases that support things like voice or thumbprint activation, wireless charging etc?

Do the mobos have headers for this stuff or is it laptops only?