Basic Skylake 6700K Overclocking review and performance.

[ED209]

liking the write up and testing 8 Pack

good to see the results on release so people can compare systems.

im still using my trust I7 950 @ 4ghz lol

 

[Digital X]

Same, Dice. As much as I want to upgrade I see no need. It'll probably be that way for a while.

Although those Motherboards look beautiful..

 

[fat4l]

Show us some stability testing on your 5.1 chip. XTU, Prime, Real bench etc... prove it!!!

Gladly

CPU:OCCT, large data set, 1 hour, PASS

Asus RealBench, Stress test 4 hours, PASS

Asus RealBench, H.264x10 loop, PASS

XTU, stress test, 8 hours, PASS

X264_v2, 10x loop, 16 threads, High prio, PASS

Cinebench R15
Single score: 203
Multi score: 1036

SuperPI, 32M

5.4GHz validation

For my usage, gaming, this is more than stable

 

[5960xNvidiaGamer]

Gladly

CPU:OCCT, large data set, 1 hour, PASS

Asus RealBench, Stress test 4 hours, PASS

Asus RealBench, H.264x10 loop, PASS

XTU, stress test, 8 hours, PASS

X264_v2, 10x loop, 16 threads, High prio, PASS

Cinebench R15
Single score: 203
Multi score: 1036

SuperPI, 32M

5.4GHz validation

For my usage, gaming, this is more than stable

Nice, brilliant overclocking there mate.

 

[Ace Modder]

I think 8 pack maybe making you an offer to buy your CPU

 

[8 Pack]

No need man 4790K junk on LN2. I still have some golden 4770K left that are.

But still a good chip yeah.

 

[Boomstick777]

For me at this specific price point X99 is king and does not need high speeed DDR4 to achieve this position.

8 Pack I am in full agreement, X99 is the superior platform and now DDR4 has come down so much I am failing to see the attraction of the new Skylake platform......

Agreed, if your spending that kind of money X99 + 5820K makes more sense. For the budget sweet spot Skylake i5 + cheap mobo will be ideal.

 

[davetherave2]

So I have been out of the upgrading world for a while and it has finally come to the point where I need to replace my old faithful E6600 based system. (I dare not switch it off in case it never turns back on again)

Is the general consensus that buying now it would be better to get the current Haswell-E's and an X99 board. Although I do game a bit on my old E6600 (StarCraft 2 is about the limit) it mainly is used as a development box/mail server/vpn tunnel these days so wondering if I really need an i7 based system for what I do (Visual Studio work mainly and the odd vm for testing things out)

 

[fat4l]

No need man 4790K junk on LN2. I still have some golden 4770K left that are.

But still a good chip yeah.

When I go for X99 or higher, I'll be making u and offer for your awesome 5960X

 

[8 Pack]

I have afew awesome chips now.

Found many in the last month or so.

 

[brit~XR]

Nice review. Makes me fill better that i got a 5820k few weeks ago not realizing skylake mainstream was so hyped and then seeing some guy on here selling his x99 stuff so he have funds for skylake.
Which made me have second thoughts so was hoping skylake would be fail

 

[crinkleshoes]

... plus you ran the 5820k @ only 4.2GHz for this bench?

Isn't it hard to find a 5820k that won't his 4.5 on good air cooling or AIO cooling now?

If skylake is only showing 2-3% faster compared to a 5820k at 6.7% lower clockspeeds... I'd be more keen to seen 4.5 vs 4.5.

Or is it that you are only testing without voltage boost?

 

[Evian]

Yeah i'm keeping my 2500k now, I mainly game.

 

[8 Pack]

... plus you ran the 5820k @ only 4.2GHz for this bench?

Isn't it hard to find a 5820k that won't his 4.5 on good air cooling or AIO cooling now?

If skylake is only showing 2-3% faster compared to a 5820k at 6.7% lower clockspeeds... I'd be more keen to seen 4.5 vs 4.5.

Or is it that you are only testing without voltage boost?

I showed a very easy Overclock all can achieve on both chips. Stock volts or low volts. Sure good chips can do more.

 

[colinmcr]

Thanks for this, I was leaning towards X99 now its without question. Although I always wanted more cores anyway for Folding/BONIC.

Any deals for X99 Sabertooth with 5930k?

 

[crinkleshoes]

I showed a very easy Overclock all can achieve on both chips. Stock volts or low volts. Sure good chips can do more.

OK... my stipulation was that 4.5 (or at least 4.4 as per the pre-OCed kits) is easy to achieve by all on the 5820k? It's over 4.6 that some seem to struggle with... and where the voltages start to climb.

Thanks for this, I was leaning towards X99 now its without question. Although I always wanted more cores anyway for Folding/BONIC.

Any deals for X99 Sabertooth with 5930k?

Why 5930 over 5820... are you planning tri or quad sli/crossfire?

 

[Jumper118]

Why 5930 over 5820... are you planning tri or quad sli/crossfire?

for folding you can use loads of pcie lanes because it uses all the gpu power, however you dont need yo put the in sli/cf, you can run a mix of gpu's, i ran a 7970 and gtx670 in the same pc for a while.

 

[andy_taximan]

for folding you can use loads of pcie lanes because it uses all the gpu power, however you dont need yo put the in sli/cf, you can run a mix of gpu's, i ran a 7970 and gtx670 in the same pc for a while.

I had my titan x and 2x780s running on my x99 asus deluxe

i assume we are still tick tocking? with these "rubbish" skylakes being the tick, best wait for the next tock

 

[dacads]

Yes please

 

[colinmcr]

Why 5930 over 5820... are you planning tri or quad sli/crossfire?

As others have commented I'll be initial running dual 980ti's and using the M.2 slot, however once my build log is finished and no ones looking I'll be dropping in a spare 970 I have.
This is purely about getting most PPD I can, it won't be used in a tri configuration for gaming.
If someone can convince me i don't need 40 lanes and I can still do this using a 5820k then great, more money for electric bill