Testseek.com have collected 291 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 6700K 4GHz Socket 1151 and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 6700K 4GHz Socket 1151.
August 2015
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291 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
So at the end of the day how did the i7-6700K/Skylake perform? Well on the CPU side of things it performed about how you would expect. It was an overall improvement from the i7-4790K in most tests but a few tests that favor higher clock speeds still had...
Published: 2015-08-06, Author: Paul , review by: hitechlegion.com
Reasonably priced, Overall improved performance, Quick Sync, HyperThreading, Improved HD video performance, Unlocked, Low Power
Immature Platform
Well, I would love to say that I had a pleasurable experience testing the new chipset and processor but the best overall experience I can mention was frustration. I have multiple kits of DDR4 memory so I figured at least one should work since Intel introd...
Overclocking options are easier to navigate than in previous models. Chipset delivers more PCI Express wiggle room for super-fast storage. Overall performance is better than any other CPU on the market, save for Extreme Edition models.
You'll need a new motherboard. Only slight performance gains over previous-generation chips in single-threaded tasks
The biggest draw of the Core i7-6700K, Intel's first sixth-generation CPU, isn't the performance. Rather, it's the extra PCIe lanes that come with the supporting Z170 chipset, which may mean storage that's as fast as the processor...
Published: 2015-08-05, Author: Steve , review by: gamersnexus.net
The biggest advantage of moving to a Skylake / Z170 platform is in memory capabilities, for those who can't afford X99 but may perform tasks that'd benefit from DDR4. Gaming is not one of those tasks (there may actually be slight overhead for gaming). Vid...
I like Skylake, a lot. Outside of the performance and connectivity benefits that it offers, Skylake is the most mature launch platform that I have ever worked with. The Intel Core i7-6700K and i5-6600K and new Z170 motherboards should give Sandy Bridge us...
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Published: 2015-08-05, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
Let's summarize our results with a couple of our famous power-performance scatter plots. The first one is based on a geometric mean of all of our non-gaming application tests, and the second one focuses on our frame-time-based game performance results. A...
Published: 2015-08-05, Author: Marco , review by: hothardware.com
Abstract: Although Intel is holding many of the architectural details regarding its latest Skylake-based, 6th generation Core processors back until the Intel Developers Forum goes down in San Francisco in a couple of weeks, the company is announcing a pair of new p...
Published: 2015-08-05, Author: Ryan , review by: pcper.com
I think it's safe to say that, although Skylake's performance isn't going to make Haswell users jump out of their seats to order immediately, consumer that are on Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge might finally have a line in the sand to step across. The Core i7...
On a strictly enthusiast level, the advantages the Skylake/Z170 platform has over the Haswell/Z97 platform are tough to turn a blind eye to. Our clock for clock testing tells the story of a 10% or better performance increase when the two were compared...
Improved performance over Haswell, Better power efficiency, More overclocking options than Haswell, More stable overclocking than Haswell, 40% more high-speed I/O lanes, Support for DD4 and DDR3
None that I found
Since Skylake is a brand new architecture that means that all the motherboard manufacturers are releasing new exciting motherboards based on the Z170 chipset. This makes it a really exciting time for PC enthusiasts and gives you a lot of choice. Z170 moth...
