Good to see this go sub £240 in the UK, at the time of writing the direct from Amazon price has just gone up to £248 from £241 (now in stock, 2 left from Amazon themselves at the time of writing). If what Intel has been saying is anything to go by, hopefully new stock with all vendors will remain steady, now.
Specifications
Family - Intel Core i7
Model Number - i7-6700
Frequency - 3.4GHz
Turbo Frequency - 4GHz
Socket - Intel Socket 1151
Microarchitecture - Skylake
Number of Cores - 4
Number of Threads - 8
Lithography - 14nm
Intel Smart Cache - 8MB
Thermal Design Power - 65W
Processor Graphics - Intel HD Graphics 530
Graphics Base Frequency - 350MHz
Graphics Max Dynamic Frequency - 1.15GHz
Top comments
sma20 to kuboro37
10 Oct 154#2
Yes 1910 minus the K. Seriously save your money if you don't know any better.
Noclouds
11 Oct 153#21
Leaving games aside, the upgrades over the years are more obviously impressive in productivity environments, with the new motherboards faster throughput and new features, though the CPU's basic intigrated GPU, if you use it, has got better with each generation, thank goodness, if smooth 4K playback, etc, matters. Single core performance has improved again, as Intel keep teasing AMD about. Energy consumption continues downward, now we're at 14nm.
If you are doing a lot of video work, for instance, the platform upgrade is a significant one (if more so with those of those new features on X99/Haswell-E, with more cores/threads).
For instance, DDR4, the improved M.2. and more PCIE lanes (the Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5-TH has PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 Connector with up to 32Gb/s data transfer, the dual M.2 supports RAID modes), Sata Express and USB 3.1 A and C and Thunderbolt 2, and now Thunderbolt 3 with the GA-Z170X-UD5 TH, frustratingly expensive drives but heaven for some video editors with huge file transfers who have been champing for it, with speeds up to 40 Gbps! Also, Thunderbolt 3 can support two displays in 4K resolution, 60 FPS (or one display in 5K). HDMI 2.0, at last, offering 18 Gb/s of bandwidth, around twice the speed of previous generation, with the potential to transfer multiple video streams, as well as a native cinematic 21:9 ratio. Etc, etc, drooling over the spec sheet, etc. If only there was a M-ATX version but the price doesn't seem too bad for a midrange board.
Equally exciting, I think, we now have the prospect of 32GB of ram on a small M-ITX board for video/rendering rigs, at last, and 64GB on M-ATX boards, a lot excitement about a couple of mid high end O/C M-ITX boards.
All comments (33)
kuboro37
10 Oct 15#1
Is this processor better than my i7 4790K?
sma20 to kuboro37
10 Oct 154#2
Yes 1910 minus the K. Seriously save your money if you don't know any better.
K1LLER HORNET to kuboro37
10 Oct 151#3
Yes but with such miniscule performance gains/year people on sandybridge need not even upgrade.
fishmaster
10 Oct 152#4
There hasn't been any competition from AMD since 2005, so that's the answer really :neutral_face:
ChampionshipManager
10 Oct 15#5
Is this as fast as an Apple A8?
jaizan
10 Oct 15#6
Isn't it odd how my Windows 7 PC suddenly gets slower when they launch Windows 10 ?
It is almost like the continual Windows 7 upgrades are designed to slow the machine down and drive customers to Windows 10. Do Microsoft want really wan to force me to buy an expensive new PC with an intel processor ?
Of course, it couldn't be like that. Could it ?
rev6 to jaizan
10 Oct 15#8
?
CookieMunzta to jaizan
11 Oct 152#17
What if tinfoil hats were invented by tinfoil manufacturers as a way of selling more tinfoil.
Awaken to jaizan
11 Oct 15#18
I second the "?"
Runs just as fast if not faster on all mine. So long as you have 4gb or more ram any CPU from the past 7 years or so should be fine. Sticking an SSD in will net you a far faster feel than a new CPU would anyway.
montblanc
10 Oct 15#7
Why is the K version £100 more? o_O
kuboro37 to montblanc
11 Oct 15#10
The "K" means it is overclockable i believe.
kuboro37
11 Oct 151#9
I think i will keep my 4790K for another few years i just got it a few months ago anyway!
And if that time comes that my CPU gets a bit slow i can always overclock :man:
rev6 to kuboro37
11 Oct 151#11
Not sure why you'd even contemplate an upgrade :smile:
kuboro37
11 Oct 15#12
Always interested in new tech :stuck_out_tongue:
rev6
11 Oct 15#13
Sure but it's just not worth it. You have 3/4 years atleast unless something huge changes in the future.
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Opening post
Specifications
Family - Intel Core i7
Model Number - i7-6700
Frequency - 3.4GHz
Turbo Frequency - 4GHz
Socket - Intel Socket 1151
Microarchitecture - Skylake
Number of Cores - 4
Number of Threads - 8
Lithography - 14nm
Intel Smart Cache - 8MB
Thermal Design Power - 65W
Processor Graphics - Intel HD Graphics 530
Graphics Base Frequency - 350MHz
Graphics Max Dynamic Frequency - 1.15GHz
Top comments
If you are doing a lot of video work, for instance, the platform upgrade is a significant one (if more so with those of those new features on X99/Haswell-E, with more cores/threads).
For instance, DDR4, the improved M.2. and more PCIE lanes (the Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5-TH has PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 Connector with up to 32Gb/s data transfer, the dual M.2 supports RAID modes), Sata Express and USB 3.1 A and C and Thunderbolt 2, and now Thunderbolt 3 with the GA-Z170X-UD5 TH, frustratingly expensive drives but heaven for some video editors with huge file transfers who have been champing for it, with speeds up to 40 Gbps! Also, Thunderbolt 3 can support two displays in 4K resolution, 60 FPS (or one display in 5K). HDMI 2.0, at last, offering 18 Gb/s of bandwidth, around twice the speed of previous generation, with the potential to transfer multiple video streams, as well as a native cinematic 21:9 ratio. Etc, etc, drooling over the spec sheet, etc. If only there was a M-ATX version but the price doesn't seem too bad for a midrange board.
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5479#ov
Equally exciting, I think, we now have the prospect of 32GB of ram on a small M-ITX board for video/rendering rigs, at last, and 64GB on M-ATX boards, a lot excitement about a couple of mid high end O/C M-ITX boards.
All comments (33)
It is almost like the continual Windows 7 upgrades are designed to slow the machine down and drive customers to Windows 10. Do Microsoft want really wan to force me to buy an expensive new PC with an intel processor ?
Of course, it couldn't be like that. Could it ?
Runs just as fast if not faster on all mine. So long as you have 4gb or more ram any CPU from the past 7 years or so should be fine. Sticking an SSD in will net you a far faster feel than a new CPU would anyway.
And if that time comes that my CPU gets a bit slow i can always overclock :man: