How the 6700K should have been.

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Excuse me sir, forgive me for questioning you but...how are you going to dissipate that heat?

soldered IHS to die and 3GHz frequently should do the trick, also no need for 4xHD530

 

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You're not supposed to launch April fools jokes past midday on April 1st... Good luck dissipating 500 odd watts of potential heat output!

A 6700 at 3.4GHz have a TDP of 65W, if we turn it down to just 3GHz and also remove the HD530 the TDP will drop to 50W or less, so we are looking at 200W TDP max.

 

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Performance at 3Ghz would have been worse than Nehalam in the vast majority of games. Get a clue.

if you want all those cores for encoding, rendering etc, get a Xeon. Intel isn't a charity case!

true, but intel could also release cpu that is more suited to gaming (or application that can benefit from high IPC) with 4 cores 8 threads like the 6700, BUT every core will have 4 times as many transistors than the original 6700, sure this will not increase the IPC anywhere near 4 times but it should increase it a lot.