Here is my 6700K
4.9GHz IBT
Under load was 1.42V
Firestrike Extreme 6700K @4.9GHz
1550/8100
The processor is watercooled.
Mobo is MSI Gaming M7
Awesome overclock result there, good job
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Awesome overclock result there, good job
Gibbo from this store/forum already said that they accept returns of CPU's no matter how they died, whether it be from too much voltage or whatnot.
It would cost Intel far too much to examine each CPU returned to determine the cause of death.
We'll have another generation of CPU's after Skylake, it will be called 'Kabylake', due out 2H 2016 last I read and it will be compatible on Z170.
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If the CPU temperatures are ok then the stuttering is most likely your 780 running out of VRAM in games. Track the amount of VRAM used.
Nonsense. Look at the opening post, I got 4.7Ghz easily on day one, without tuning anything.
Why would anyone be using 64GB of RAM with a quad core exactly? That's not the intended use, if you actually need that much ram then you need the additional cores from Haswell-E for those applications.
Many thousands of 6700k's have already shipped - and been sold. It can be found in countless OEM gaming builds already.
Yes there was a stock shortage early on, though that's pretty much over with now and it can be found in stock at many retailers.
Still happy/satisfied with the 6700k I paid £320 for over 2 months ago on release day, really was a great purchase/upgrade from my i7 920
Settled on a 4.7Ghz clock at 1.32V, been rock solid stable and runs so cool at that voltage.
Adaptive 1.30 with 0.2 adaptive, for when it turbo's up to 4.7Ghz.
That was the only way I could get it to downclock and downvolt to 0.7V at low loads/idle, though this is on a older BIOS, perhaps I don't need adaptive for that with a newer BIOS.
I built a 6700k system for a friend last week with a 980ti amp - worked as expected with no issuse. Did have some teething problems until I updated the MIII Hero Bios to the latest though.
Having just recently bought my i7 6700k I have ran it at 4.5Ghz since purchase and it seems stable enough in games.
I haven't tried pushing it any further as the temps / voltage / performance all match what I'm happy with.
I have ran OCCT for six hours and that is fine, as well as several passes of Intelburn.
Also I have just ran (on a warm day as well...!) Realbench 2.43.....
and it passed fine after 30mins of using the stress test.
Even though my room is quite hot at the moment it still kept the temps down to a reasonable level with 1.234v being used when under load at 4.5Ghz.
How long do you tend to run Realbench for before you would consider your CPU stable....?
Thanks
I let mine run for 2 hours or so, good enough for me.
My 6700k does 4.6Ghz at it's default 1.3v, so temperatures are very low. I think quite a few chips are capable of this, so worth giving a go at 1.3v adaptive (adaptive so that it reduces voltage when it downclocks, for a very efficient system).
I just run the stress test.
I've also heard that 4 DIMMS typically lowers what overclock your CPU is made of, though not all IMC (integrated memory controller) are made equal etc.
I think 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3000Mhz is the current sweet spot, I considered upgrading to 32GB 3200 etc, but by the time it's needed Intel's 3D Xpoint memory will have completely obsoleted DDR4, so no point IMO.
Yes it will be the same socket.
Very much doubt Kabylake will have higher IPC than Skylake, most likely just a clock speed bump and improved graphics.
Late to the party i know, but might as well join up
Just didn't think Kaby was worth the extra money. The z270 version of my board was an extra £80!
So i bought a 6700k, asrock z170 gaming k6 and 16gb of corsair ddr4 3000.
Happy as i could just re-use my trusty old noctua nhd14 cooler which i think is still as good as anything else on the market.
Got it clocked at 4.6ghz at 1.27 vcore, temps hitting around 70c on ibt.
It may not be night and day better than my old 2500k setup, but it's a nice jump all the same.
A nice upgrade for you, but I think it's very foolish to buy into Z170/6700K now that Kabylake is out.
Obviously no point in anyone upgrading from Skylake to Kabylake, though Kabylake does have a few no brainer advantages that are simply extremely foolish to miss:
1. Significantly higher resale value (6700K's value is now over £100 less)
2. AVX offset on Kabylake, which is an awesome feature (means CPU will downclock during AVX loads, preventing silly temps/noise)
3. Z270, Intel Optane support, few more lanes and other improvements.
4. 200-300Mhz higher overclock.
Note that I put the extra overclock speed as the last point, as it's the least important feature IMO.
Skylake was great and I've been extremely pleased with mine over the 1.5 years that I've had it, though it's extremely nonsensical to buy into Skylake/Z170 at this time, it's over 1.5 years old tech after all.
P.S. Overall, as I've mentioned in other threads, I still think that now is the worst possible time to buy a CPU. Ryzen is here soon, which will greatly affect prices. Could be talking £250 for a 7700k or even less, as this will be the first time we've had competition for many years.
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