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Basic Skylake 6700K Overclocking review and performance.
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Nice read! What cooler was this on and how were the temperatures?
Cheers for the reply, the X99s would probably be ample for my needs. Coupled with a 5820k, seems to be the best value i7 chip at this time. A mate has expressed an interest in purchasing my current board, cpu and ram. Which would help with funding a switch.
I used the Alpenfohn Matterhorn for all this testing. Its a decent air cooler and blocks no RAM slots.
My favourite air cooler is Megahelms but its more expensive for only afew degree C improvement.
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Would u choose deluxe or rampage extreme for 5930k. ?
Got an alpenfohn k2 here, cant recall if it is compatible with X99, but think it would cope ok with an oc'd 5820k. Actually purchased it as a replacement for a super megahelims when I was using X58.
Pretty comparable to noctua d14, similair shape and size. Much better at cooling than the megahelims was on x58, but takes up a lot more room. Could possibly drop to a smaller cooler on X99 as it seems to run a bit cooler than haswell.
hi, is that the asus X99-DELUXE , see it at £299 which aint cheap
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£100 more expensive than a Skylake + mobo + DDR4!
That better last me until 2020!!
Hi,
The Deluxe has everything you need in order to get the most out of this platform. Have had mine since just before launch. The Rampage is for those who wish to really push limits with benchmarking and has moderately better DRAM support for ratios above 3300 which aren't as easily obtained.
My x58 board broke so I couldn't wait 4 weeks for sky lake. Helped that many top end x99 boards were for sale for £100 to £150 in mm as well and 5820k on two and so was the memory.
Got a 5820 plus gigabyte soc force and 4 x 4gb 2667 ram for £530 all in and well happy with the performance. Was annoyed at the time with me needing new stuff so close to sky lake launch but very happy now
Got a 5820 plus gigabyte soc force and 4 x 4gb 2667 ram for £530 all in and well happy with the performance. Was annoyed at the time with me needing new stuff so close to sky lake launch but very happy now
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Are these tests undertaken on the chip as a whole or on single cores? Other review sites suggest that Skylake is significantly better than Haswell on a core to core comparison.
Haswell on the other hand, beats Skylake when all 6 cores are employed, but unfortunately this is not what happens in the real world were there are no games which can use 6 cores - nor are there likely to be in the life of the Haswell CPU.
http://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i7_5820k-440-vs-intel_core_i7_6700k-518
unfortunately I can't find the other review site I saw yesterday, but the results were pretty similar.
As far as I'm aware there are few multicore games, and none which can use 6 cores at once, most still use a single core, so perhaps that test is more relevant in the real world?
Haswell on the other hand, beats Skylake when all 6 cores are employed, but unfortunately this is not what happens in the real world were there are no games which can use 6 cores - nor are there likely to be in the life of the Haswell CPU.
http://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i7_5820k-440-vs-intel_core_i7_6700k-518
unfortunately I can't find the other review site I saw yesterday, but the results were pretty similar.
As far as I'm aware there are few multicore games, and none which can use 6 cores at once, most still use a single core, so perhaps that test is more relevant in the real world?
Think the hardest part of the skylake vs X99 debate is that you could get an Asus Z170 Gaming Pro for £120 which has a lot of good features including USB3.1 and would suit the cast majority of people.
To get a motherboard that comes close to those features on X99 you'll be spending atleast double that.
Obviously the gap narrows when you go to top end motherboards.
To get a motherboard that comes close to those features on X99 you'll be spending atleast double that.
Obviously the gap narrows when you go to top end motherboards.