Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

[Dave2150]

btw Isnt skylake MBs supposed to offer ddr3 support? got some decent ddr3 ram Id like to keep once I upgrade.

There will be some DDR3 motherboards for Skylake - though they'll only support DDR3L - which is low voltage DDR3 (1.35V).

If your current DDR3 is normal voltage stuff, then I think you're out of luck.

 

[Dave2150]

Skylake retail packaging leaked!









Damn sexy packaging this time

6700k code = L519B744 - so made in Malaysia in May - this should be there will be plenty of stock, since they've been in production for many weeks

 

[Dave2150]

They should be full speed m.2 slots well at least one as the skybridge cpus come with 20 lanes. So 16x for a single GPU or 8x 8x for dual GPU setup which leaves you with 4 lanes for a m.2 unless you use both m2. slots then they may run at 2x each which will make them run at slower speeds. Not sure why there are two slots on the motherboards as id rather get a bigger single m2 SSD than two smaller ones.

Skylake has 36 PCI-E V3 lanes. Only 16 from the CPU, for GPU's/other PCI-E cards, and then another 20 from the chipset, for M.2/Sata express and other things etc.

 

[Dave2150]

Gibbo already said £300 for the 6700k

 

[Dave2150]

ASUS ROG z170 tease!



https://www.facebook.com/ASUS/videos/930962713613794/

Damn Sexy!

 

[Dave2150]

The cinebench score of 930 at stock are promising - I don't trust those gaming results though, waiting for the Anandtech review tomorrow for those

 

[Dave2150]

Holy Necro Boomstick, this thread was last used in August!

Glad you saw the light though, Skylake is absolutely great for gaming.

X99 etc is completely pointless for those who mainly use their rig to run games, IMO.

Far better off with a Skylake instread.

Nice little video here also showing the IPC gains in games :