Yes 1910 minus the K. Seriously save your money if you don't know any better.

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.

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.

Is this processor better than my i7 4790K?

There hasn't been any competition from AMD since 2005, so that's the answer really :neutral_face:

Is this as fast as an Apple A8?

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 ?

Why is the K version £100 more? o_O

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:

Always interested in new tech :stuck_out_tongue:

Sure but it's just not worth it. You have 3/4 years atleast unless something huge changes in the future.

I was not seriously thinking of upgrading just wanted to check it out

These days The gains are so small processor wise its just not worth it this is what happens when there is no competition

Saying that though the new Star Wars game seems very CPU intensive.

It is well known by now that if you have an Intel CPU from Sandybridge or above already, there is literally no point to upgrade.

How come the 6700 is 65w tdp and 4ghz turbo/3.4 normal but the 6700K is 91w tdp and 4.2ghz turbo/4 ghz normal. I thought they were supposed to be the same except the K is overclockable?

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.

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.

Surely this is overclockable via BCLK? Are there any 6700K reviews that look at BCLK only OCing? Upping from 100 to 120MHz should get you to 4.8GHz...

EDIT: So it looks a bit more complicated, but it should be doable, RAM speeds permitting... http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/intel_skylake_i5_6600k_i7_6700k_1151_z170_review/4

Pretty sure its 100% not related, windows 7 machines in using work exactly the same as they did before, booting feels slower since 8 & 10 only take a couple of seconds.

If using chrome as a browser probably feels like web pages are slower as recently updates seem to brake more than they fix, but popular opinion is only windows updates do that and google can do no evil, irrelevant of any facts!

Either way, seems like a good price to me

Nothing in the link says it is not possible. BCLK is changed in the BIOS, no silver pen required! It's the multiplier that is locked.

Limited but seems possible.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1575627/i7-6700-non-k-on-z170-what-overclock-possible

I guarantee you snort chuckled and tipped your fedora after typing that

I wasn't aware Z170 supported HDMI 2.0 but thanks for the link...

Ah, I see what you mean. On listed spec, at least, so far, I am aware of four Z170 motherboards that support it, all of them just out. Of them, my main interest is in the GA-Z107-UD3-TH, which is now in stock.

I bought a Core i3 6100 and I'm running it on a Z170 board. No BCLK overclocking even though the clock generator is not on the chip any more. I expect these will be the same. Shame.