The i7s will start coming down in price cause the i9 dirty nappy blacksky edition processor is coming out soon.

Thankfully, there's more to a CPU than how many cores it has.

Voted hot - assuming it's the retail box version

The i7s will start coming down in price cause the i9 dirty nappy blacksky edition processor is coming out soon.

Great cpu and this is a good price. Love my 6700K and I'm overclocking it at a stable 4.7 Ghz using just a cheap Evo 212 cooler. Fast as hell!

Thanks!
Using Corsair Vengeance 32 GB kit (4 x 8 GB, 3200Mhz) on a Asus Z170-A mobo (best value Z170 mobo btw)

Totally Agree :smiley:

Temps at load were mostly in 77 to 79 degrees range at 100% CPU usage, running Realbench and Prime 95 stress testing. Occasionally crept into low 80s but way under the 100 it takes before the CPU starts throttling itself.

What version of prime95 you running?

Latest one on Mersenne site. Version 28.7 I believe.

What do you use such a powerful CPU for?

Games mostly but I do a lot of photo/video editing and processing too. I'm an enthusiast and I just like building and tinkering because it interests me. I have two other systems built too and an array of spares :smiley:

Damn, if you're throwing away any parts a student in need will happily take them off your hands <3

Running Prime95 v28.7 is too much for my 6700k, at stock it reaches 83 degrees after about 5-10 mins.

Have you optimized the voltage or just upped the clock and left the rest auto?

Praying And zen is good fed up with Intel charging this much for what is a quad core at the end of the day.

It might come across as shocking but it reaches these at temps at stock settings. I just done some further tests; set bios settings on default without XMP and it reached roughly 83 degrees max after 10 minutes. With XMP + core enhancement enabled it reaches 100 degrees Celsius after about a minute and a half so I ended the test early.

I will try another test with XMP enabled without core enhancement

Sounds like the CPU heatsink isn't attached properly and/or a poor thermal paste application. Which cooler is it?

XMP for the memory is basically a set of timings and clocks. It shouldn't have much impact on the CPU temperature.

Not sure if I should nitpick here, but where did you get 10% more performance compared to the 6600k from?

Depending on what is being done. Lots of heavy multithreaded, yes it's more. Lots of gaming or single core, often less.

Hence the tilde.

The tilde... I see.

Apparently enabling XMP profiles has an effect on voltage levels. I just did a test with XMP enabled but without all core enhancement and after 10 minutes of Prime95 smallFTT it reached 90 degrees. In regards to the cooler am using: http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/antec-h600-aio-watercooler-for-34-32-3-99-dpd-delivery-scan-2418058#comments

83C is still too hot without any overclocking, even with a low-end cooler, but with yours that's terrible. What thermal paste did you use?
I would set the BIOS to default and get that temp down before doing anything else.

Is the fan working on the cooler (silly question I know)? Re-applying thermal paste and reseating is probably the best thing to do.

Fan works fine, pump seems to work and am using arctic MX-4 thermal compound that I got about 2 years ago from amazon. Unless that stuff expires which I highly doubt then it shouldn't be a problem. I reseated everything a few days ago, it didn't help with temps in fact it got worse, I will give it one last try tomorrow. Tbh I think the cooler is just crap, I guess you get what you pay for :disappointed:

When running the Prime95 test, can you run something like CPU-Z to check the voltage at max load?

Here are some screenshots if you want to investigate why the voltage levels are through the roof.
http://imgur.com/a/f1IwI

The core voltage looks fine from what I can see. It has to be the cooler/thermal paste.

Best answer ever to the questions about PC and overclocking. :smile:

Sorry mate, my younger Brother and little Nephew end up getting the surplus bits :smiley:

Yikes, that is high for stock setting.

Are you letting the motherboard automatically set the core voltage? Some mobo manufacturer's auto settings are a bit ridiculous and are like trying to kill your precious new cpu lol

If temps are fluctuating from low to high and vice versa, I would suggest checking and reinstalling the cooler you use for the cpu. If you are using an AIO cooler, it's very easy for the tubes to pull the block in one direction and when tightening, you may not get the best flat contact between the heatsink and cpu. I always make sure I tighten screws in an alternate and criss-cross fashion and count the turns (usually in 3s) I did each time, to make sure I am uniformly fastening the cooler to the cpu. Cooler installation is one of the easiest steps of a build to mess up so if temps seem off, take it off and try reinstalling. Don't worry about the mess. Just have some Arctic paste removal solutions on hand or any isopropyl alcohol will do.

Good luck!

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The core voltage looks to be normal for the 6700K, nothing out of the ordinary when boosting to 4.2GHz.

Just installed the H600 myself on an overclocked Xeon E5450 @ 4GHz/1.22V...running Aida64 Stability Test cores average in high 60s @ 100% with fan under 1200rpm...using MX-2 so seems OK to me.
Did you tighten the 4 screws all the way down?

I tightened them just enough you can still see about 3-4mm of thread on the screws. It feels completely solid, I didn't want to overdo it as the backplate starts bending quite a bit.

65C temps stock at 1.3v, even with a budget air cooler. You should try another cooler.

I made that mistake...high temps, thought it was tight 'enough'...reapplied TIM then screwed until the screws fully tightened...sorted, temps normal.
Feels secure but if screws not tightened-off then plate not fully contacting the CPU...think this could be your issue.

When will the new processors come out? Is it a yearly thing? What is it likely to be called so I can google it?
I'm new to the whole pc thing. I do have an interest in gaming. I watched a bunch of youtube videos one lazy sunday afteroon, which hyped me to build a pc lol
At the moment I have a i5 6600k. I think I'll upgrade to the next i7.
Also does anybody buy used processors? As I've never seen used ones on ebay :/ what do I do with my old one? Seems a waste to throw it out.

I recently bought the Core i3-6320. I looked into the i5 and i7 and spent lots of time reviewing the test comparisons. Basically unless you are a dev, which runs multiple VMs all of the time or a pure game enthusiast, which has money to burn, the i7 is a waste. the Core i3-6320 runs at 3.9 ghz, runs battlefield 4 5% lower than the i7 and is under 1/2 the price.

Students ? My experiences with every single pompous PC student both male and female I have met in the last 5-10 years would have me smashing components rather than gifting the things to them......

Seems close to the Intel BX80662I36100 Intel Core i3 6100 Skylake Dual-Core 3.7 GHz Processor @ £99.83 mentioned on tomshardware.

I did managed to stably overclock the i5 to 4.4 but I backed off to 4.3 in the end as it would thermal throttle at 4.4 but get nowhere near as hot at 4.3.
And about the GFX cards, I splashed out and got a 980ti. I didn't know at the time that the next generation was imminent.... that reveal came a few youtube videos after the build :/

It turned out to be probably the most expensive Sunday afternoon I've ever had did that one after I had ordered all the parts! I remember only set out to find some 4k content, one thing led to another and I was 4k gaming! hahaha

Maybe, I dunno. But I think if I only had the i3 then when I play games such as GTA V the cpu would be the bottleneck. I can tell the difference in my i5 between when I do and don't apply the overclock before I play.
It runs much smoother and there is a lot less texture pop in.

Amazing cpu and this is a good price. Got one this week to go in my new system. It is a big step up from my old i5 so far in all the work applications I have tried but haven't had a chance to game on it yet.

Just need to get a gpu to compliment it now. :smiley:

Prove it to me....... Load up GTA V, run it and then take a screenshot of the task manager, I want to see GTA V taking over more than 2 cores.

You're not going to believe this :laughing:...... I genuinely just broke GTA by trying to mod it :smile: fail!
Its re-downloading now. I will do as you say, because I am also interested to see if it is or not.

​Clean your heatsink and CPU lid well with T-Cut then clean thoroughly with analytical grade acetone/ isopropyl alcohol and dry before using TIM sparingly, I guarantee your temperatures drop significantly :smile:

​It was a 3570k which was still pretty good but all the work I have done on this new one has processed noticeably faster. :smiley:

How does this processor compare to 4770k?

Texture pop-in (I'm guessing here) would be really towards data going to the graphics card and not CPU. I upgraded my set recently, got a nice asus cheap motherboard that runs DDR4, 8GB DDR4 for like £30 (??? amazing price) the CPU Mentioned but the best............. got a samsung M.2. card, which runs at 2000 Mb/s, yes fffffing 2Gb/s


EDIT - the card in question https://www.overclockers.co.uk/samsung-sm951-128gb-m.2-pci-e-3.0-x-4-nvme-solid-state-drive-mzvpv128hdgm-00000-hd-212-sa.html

Still angry that Rev6 proved you incorrect?

You said the quote above. Rev6 showed you a CPU that has stayed consistent in price for well over a year! Maybe you shouldn't use superlatives so much?

Speaking of idiots who don't know what they're talking about, and up he appears like those moles in the arcade game. Using a cpu falling in price to illustrate his point that components don't fall in price.....thick or very thick ? :laughing:

PhilK: Prove it to me, show me PC hardware that hasn't gone down in price

rev6: *Shows PC hardware that hasn't gone down in price

PhilK: You know nothing John Snow!

Phil K showed Rev i7 that DID "go down in price"
Rev didn't want to talk about that, just the one i7 item ONLY he found - remember ?
Don't lower yourself to the other prats level

You asked for PC hardware that didn't get cheap after a new generation. I showed you. That should have been the end of it.

The exception proving the rule ? Care to bet the i7 won't fall in price ? Like every other cpu ? Whether it's replaced by a newer one, they still lose value. Just take a look at the original I showed you which you tried to pretend didn't count (Jeezers wept)
No doubt you still have that £300 Pentium 4 bought last week ?
Let it rest for god's sake
Pettiness and petulance can only be laughed at a wee while before the tedious irritation kicks in.

You got what you asked for.

And you ignored what was passed back .
Now go away and hold hands with the other pompous prat
I'd rather talk to the wall. Less boring

Your argument was that every PC hardware drops in price after say 6 months. I showed you one that didn't. It has nothing to do with PC hardware that does drop in price, because some do.

my record for now is 4.9GHz on "water" paid £360 6 months ago. recommended. perfect combination with 980ti

Phil, to an unbiased observer, you would appear to be rude, abrasive, and ignorant. Can you imagine for a second the following scenario and try to understand what happened? Follow another example (Simplified, not trying to be condescending, just providing cut down version).

Person one states a potential fact: Everyone loves pizza.

Person two provides an example counter to the fact: Jenny doesn't like pizza. You are wrong.

Person one counters with a question: So you're saying no one likes pizza? You are wrong.

Person two: Many people like Pizza, just not everyone likes Pizza.

That's where we are at right now. You said everyone likes pizza. You were shown a counter example. You defended with assigning the position "therefore no one likes pizza!"

Can't you read the badge you tedious repetetive..... ?

I guess you could choose to just shout loud and ignore reason, if you want to.

Yap yap yap bore bore bore
Go and bore someone else FFS

You are acting like a child when they are told something.

Stick your fingers in your ears and yell loudly till whatever it is goes away.

Scream, yell, act rude all you want.

No one is asking you to reply, you are doing that. If you are bored, stop replying. You seem to feel the need to attack me and Rev6 for presenting facts.

"Yap yap yap yap yap blah blah blah blah" translates to "I know I was wrong, but I would rather be angry about it, act out in aggressive manner, until the people I'm talking to get so frustrated they stop talking to me."

Do you do this in real life too? Someone talks to you about a mistake you've made, and you just scream at them till they leave? Utterly ridiculous behavior.