but then by overclocking it, it will use more power again?
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I3 6100 overclocks (apparently)
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Is it even worth buying a "K" version at all? I was pretty much set on buying a 6600K in the new year but now i'm uncertain. Do the 6400 and 6600K have similar max ceilings when overclocking or is there more head room with the 6600K with the unlocked multiplier?
The unlocked multi won't give you any more headroom, however the 6600k is a better bin so it might do 100-200mhz more. Tbh its all down the the silicon lottery, a bad 6600k will be slow than a good 6400.
It all depends on the chip dude, literally every single one will be slightly different.
I had an AMD FX 8320 that would flop the moment you touched the multi. I mean it was absolutely awful. Go to the FSB though? it was the better of the three I had, and easily did 4.9ghz stable on a H100.
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I don't see why people on many forums are getting excited about the Core i3 6100. So you need an £80 to £100 motherboard to overclock a £95 CPU with another £15 to £20 for the cooler. At this point you might as well get a Core i5 6400 and a cheaper motherboard which will cost around the same - at least from what I gather the Core i5 6400 seems a better bet,since the saving over the Core i5 6600K looks huge.
So,IMHO is the Core i5 6400 which looks like the star of the show TBH!!
So,IMHO is the Core i5 6400 which looks like the star of the show TBH!!
Asrock are the fastest z170 boards. Really great. So why have u gone off them?
I am offering Overclockers bundles with both these CPU so the end user can make there own choice.
6100 is still great value for sure.
From my testing no difference in headroom really. K chips u can run cache low to get higher frequency but this effects perf. Non K u must run cache and core at the same frequency which slightly lower limits core but u have full efficiency so better clock for clock perf.
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Its more the case I saw some benchmarks of the Core i3 6100 in games,and even at 4.5GHZ,the Core i5 6400 is constantly keeping up with it and when the latter does beat it,its by a big margin and thats the Core i5 6400 at stock.
I really think,overclocking needs to be enabled on the non Z series motherboards,otherwise it seems to make more sense to get the Core i5 6400 with a cheaper motherboard or one with a Z series motherboard over the Core i3 6100.
With CPUs like the Core i3 530 and E5000 series you could use cheaper motherboards which is why they stood out as being decent value IMHO.
I5 6400 can easy beat 6600k when Overclockers and are much cheaper.
As far as games goes it depends on how many cores and threads the game is optimised to make use of. The majority prefer high speed over cores etc....
As far as games goes it depends on how many cores and threads the game is optimised to make use of. The majority prefer high speed over cores etc....