finally our review of Intel's new consumer grade Flagship Skylake CPU and
Zed 170 chipset is here that's right I
said Flagship which probably seems a little strange considering Intel's
previous topend quad core code named Broadwell haven't even been on the
market for 3 months on the desktop side and although Intel has gained a pretty
big Market advantage over AMD partially due to how regularly they release CPUs
and chipsets the past few Processor architectures have merely felt like
incremental upgrades to a lot of people with many gamers and enthusiasts like me
still happily rocking their Sandy Bridge chips from 2011 2600k for the freaking
win so what does Skylake bring to the table and is it the next big thing like
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this is a core i7 6700 K and just like
all of its other K series i7s it features four cores four hyperthreads
for a total of eight threads and an unlock multiplier for overclocking out
of the box you'll get a 4.0 GHz clock
with the turbo boost frequency of 4.2 GHz now if this doesn't sound like a big
Improvement right away that's cuz Intel's last gen 4790k ran at the same
base clock speed but while the CPU may not have incredibly eye popping specs at
first glance the Skylight platform does come with quite a few improvements we
haven't yet seen on mainstream chipsets for starters ddr4 support is finally
available for cheaper motherboards with Sky supporting up to
2133 MHz ddr4 RAM gone to the days where
you had to pay $1,000 for a six core CPU
and straight baller board to just to try out some memory it really doesn't make
much of a difference anyways check this video out for more on the differences of
ddr4 and DDR3 sky like also comes with
revision 3.0 of Intel's Direct Media interface or DMI which is basically the
thing that connects your CPU to the chipset and many of your computer's
other components and peripherals it's twice as fast as DMI 2.0 on Haswell and
other earlier processors and given how dmi's four lanes carry 20 lanes of PCI
Express bandwidth to and from the CPU the extra speed should help if you
happen to be running a whole bunch of high-end stuff like big external storage
highspeed PCI ssds or just downloading and streaming tons of stuff through a
big internet pipe skyl also includes some serious improvements on the
graphics side as well now I know that many of you like me are going to be
running Skylake with a discreet graph card but remember Sky series is going to
include lower-end chips like core i3s
and Pentium so if you are using the integrated GPU maybe inside an htpc or
something you'll be able to enjoy the full support of HC codc the successor to
h.264 which is newly supported in Windows 10 Skylake also includes native
support for Thunderbolt 3.0 which has 5 gab per second transfer speed which
means it is also fast enough to Output 4K 60 HZ video over HDMI or 5K 60 HZ
video over DisplayPort very cool so how
well does this thing overclock well first Intel's had a few issues with
several overclocked CPUs both ivybridge and Haswell had some well publicized
issues with excessive heat so much so in the case of Haswell that Intel's refresh
of Haswell Devil's Canyon had improved thermal interface material as a major
selling point so Intel's tried to reduce heat output on Skylake by doing two
different things things one was improve power efficiency and two was move the
voltage regulator off the CPU and back onto the motherboard to reduce the
amount of crap that's actually heating up the CPU package so even though the
smaller 14 nanometer process could otherwise result in higher overall
temperatures these changes should result in a relatively easy overclock on a
wider range of motherboards including cheaper ones that don't have the fancy 8
or 12 phase power vrms and early tests
show that it actually won't be nearly as much of a variance between individual
chips as well which is nice you won't have to hunt for certain bins anymore
hopefully it's benchmarking time for our test bench we used the new ASUS z170
Deluxe motherboard with our core i76700k along with 16 GB of ddr4 2400
MHz RAM a Samsung 850 Pro 1 terb SSD a
reference GTX 980 TI and a Corsair 100i
GTX liquid cooling cooler we took this setup and put it up against Devil's
Canyon core i7 4790k running on an as
Seuss Sabertooth z97 Mark I also with 16
GB of 2400 MHz RAM albeit DDR3 instead
of ddr4 and kept the rest of the components the same to get an Apples to
Apples comparison or as close as we could given that the two CPUs are
different and use different types of memory we overclocked both chips to a
stable 4.7 GHz on 1.4 vol we Ed PC Mark
8 to test General performance and cinebench along with szip to give our
test bench a CPU bound workload our
overclocked skylike chip showed slight improvements over Devil's Canyon perhaps
not enough to notice in everyday uh situations our gaming benchmarks told
somewhat of a similar story with virtually no difference in Far Cry 4 and
City skylines but we did see about a 7 FPS Improvement in Total War Atilla
which is pretty CPU sensitive title that also really pushed our gtx980 TI at Max
settings so although Skylake isn't a massive Improvement clock for clock over
the previous generation only about 4% in PC Mark 8 is it still a compelling
upgrade well if you're running an older chipset looking for a more consistently
solid overclocking experience on mainstream motherboards or want a
specific feature set like Thunderbolt 3.0 support or massive bandwidth for
things like your expensive NVMe drives or Skylake is is going to be certainly
worth a look but if you're not a super serial overclocker or you're a gamer
with a newer platform like Sandy or Ivory Bridge it might make more sense to
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