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6600K and 6700K

I've wondered this myself. The 6600/6700 ranges should be at least £50 cheaper as an incentive to shift them in preference over the 7600/7700.
 
The z270 boards are more expensive than the z170 equivalent.

The z270 version of my board is over 70 quid more. Add to that my 6700k was 30 quid cheaper than the 7700k, i saved £100.
 
The 7700k seems to be running hotter that the 6700k on average. Also they try to make it seem like the 7th gen are better for overclocking, but some of the 3rd gen could get up to speeds of 5.2ghz on water.
I think they are putting the stock speed up a notch everytime and selling it for more. I'm not a AMD fanboy as I have had both intel and amd rigs in the past and have a intel current, but I find intel are ripping us all off.
I have a 6600k and if told I could have a z270 board and 7600k chip free upgrade I would not change my 6600k. Reason is I can over clock to same speed or there about as a 7600k and also I dont like Windows 10.
So many other people are still on win7 or 8 and I think that might be why the 6th gen cpu's are still selling.
 
Z170 and H110M are cheaper than Z270 and B250. (people still buy k i7's on h110m/b250 cos of higher base clocks)

6700K also runs considerably cooler than 7700K. Not sure about the 6600 v 7700

And cpu's themselves are a bit cheaper also.
 
When I got my 6600k last june it was £200, now its £240! I don't get how they can do this and people still buy them. If I was to build my pc now and not last June,
I would have had a 1600x and b350. Ok it would have been a little less fps on some games, but on heavy work loads I would have been much better off.
 
kabylake is required for 4k netflix if that's important to you. skylake will not play 4k netflix as it does not have the hardware based DRM - playready 3.0 used by windows 10.
also only kaby has the hardware support for the 4k 10bit HEVC used by netflix that skylake does not.
 
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henson0115 said:
kabylake is required for 4k netflix if that's important to you. skylake will not play 4k netflix as it does not have the hardware based DRM - playready 3.0 used by windows 10.
also only kaby has the hardware support for the 4k 10bit HEVC used by netflix that skylake does not.
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Theres not many people that would buy a new I5 or I7 and not have a GPU, I believe the Nvidia 10 series and AMD RX4/5 series adds this support? I know they enable you to play 4k via Kodi, not sure about Netflix though?
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This is a genuine question as I have a 6600k with a 1050ti for my media PC (Although Netflix is on my TV)
 
los said:
Theres not many people that would buy a new I5 or I7 and not have a GPU, I believe the Nvidia 10 series and AMD RX4/5 series adds this support? I know they enable you to play 4k via Kodi, not sure about Netflix though?
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This is a genuine question as I have a 6600k with a 1050ti for my media PC (Although Netflix is on my TV)
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i believe 1070 and 1080 do support it, but the rest do not; as for amd i haven't seen anything on that front. its more of a use it for gaming first thing and netflix afterwards but is probably not really thought of. as far as i am aware netflix 4k and 1070/1080 is not quite there yet.
edit: nvidia does have the capability for 4k netflix but netflix does not have support for nvidia as a usable option yet.
edit2: any 1050 ti or higher nvidia card is capable but there is some hold up in the driver support? and amd 4/500 cards are capable but some issues on netflix's end mean no curent support and no planned support (sounds like they have been paid by nvidia to lock down support to me ).
 
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