SuperPi puts me off Skylake

[Frank_Rizzo]

Guys Guys. Trust me the OC is stable, ECC is NOT needed. Nightly builds are fine and besides you don't have to run the latest build if you don't want to.

This is not a critical medical app and it's not a rig that is used to control the skies. Don't worry about it!

 

[mmj_uk]

Fron wh$t I've haard Frank is th@ new OCUK forom servar odministrztor.

 

[Frank_Rizzo]

Sad mate.

 

[mmj_uk]

Oh lighten up.

 

[8 Pack]

Stop talking crap.

Skylake can beat haswell and all others 32m anyway.

U tried Samsung B die 4000mhz 12-12-12-28 1t spanking the rest.

 

[Frank_Rizzo]

If anyone is interested I got this rig up and running now.

i7-6700K (OEM)
GA-Z170XP-SLI
Savage Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C12 2400MHz
Hydro 75

I can confirm the SuperPi scores are not as good as the 4700K (for the reason noted earlier, namely timings). However, the other advantages from this newer platform make up for that.

1. This is a good clocker, with cooler temperatures. I can hit 5Ghz with tuning ease (fails prime but there is room for tweaking).

2. The memory bandwidth change to DDR has shown a big improvement with the Ramdrive. Previously I was getting 4GB Read, 4.7GB Write but this is now hitting 6.6GB and 6.9GB respectively. This is at 2133Mhz. I have not tried the stock 2400 or any other tuning of the memory so these figures could be even better.

3. As for my apps I can see around 10-15% improvement over the 4770K at the same clock speed of 4.6Ghz. So that fact that I can hit at least 4.8Ghz+ stable means that this rig should be 15%-20% faster overall. I will be happy with that.