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Oc potential on skylake isnt that great looking tbh, 4.5/6 ono going by 8 Packs findings. Looks to match a 4790k at 4.7ghz, which is pretty much standard for that chip. Also, due to being a non soldered ihs cpu, the 6700k like haswell and ivybridge before it will likely run hotter than the 5820k.
Good air copes pretty ok for haswell, (alpenfohn k2 here). Maxes at 76c in games, 83c under real bench at 4.7ghz. But haswell chips (Devils canyon included) run a good deal warmer than anything else intel produce. If buying new now, id go the X99 route, can actually work out cheaper than skylake, extra cores may be useful under DX12 too.
I keep feeling that dx12 will not be the magical thing so many believe it to be. Firstly game developers will have to implement it, secondly, how many dx12 games are on the horizon? So far just one. I predict that the GPU will remain the thing to offload tasks to rather than the CPU, makes more sense IMHO. By the time that those few rare dx12 games utilising more than 4 cores games arrive Skylake-E has arrived. Meanwhile Haswell-E owners might be playing games with 2 cores and twelve threads just sitting there and lower clocks, thus actually losing performance a higher clocked quad core offers. Hence I feel that Haswell-E remains a workstation chip and not a gamer's choice. But hey, maybe I'm wrong
