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finally our review of intel's new consumer grade flagship skylake CPU and z170 chipset is here that's right I said flagship which probably seems a little strange considering Intel's previous top-end quad-core codenamed Broadwell haven't even been on the market for three 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 2600 K for the freaking wind so what does skylight bring to the table and is it the next big thing like the video if you want to see us check out a 3d printer called the ultra maker 2 extended the Logitech G 303 features lightweight design and advanced optical sensor with Delta zero technology for precise tracking and RGB lighting to match your setup click now to learn more let's start out with a look at the CPU itself this is a core i7 6700 K and just like all of its other K series i7s it features four cores four hyper threads for a total of eight threads and an unlocked multiplier for overclocking out-of-the-box you'll get a 4.0 gigahertz clock with the turbo-boost frequency of 4.2 gigahertz now if this doesn't sound like a big improvement right away that's because 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 skylight supporting up to 2133 megahertz ddr4 Ram gone are the days where you had to pay a thousand dollars for a six core CPU and straight baller board - 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 skylake also comes with the 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 DM eyes 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 high speed PCIe SSD s or just downloading a streaming tons of stuff through a big internet pipe skylake also includes some serious improvements on the graphics side as well now I know that many of you like me or can be running skylake with a discrete graphics card but remember skylake series is going to include lower end chips like core i3 s and pentium so if you are using the integrated GPU maybe inside an HTP c or something you'll be able to enjoy the full port of HEV C codec the successor to h.264 which is newly supported in Windows 10 skylake also includes native support for thunderbolt 3.0 which has 5 gigabyte per second transfer speed which means it is also fast enough to output 4k 60 Hertz video over HDMI or 5 K 60 Hertz 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 Ivy Bridge and Haswell had some well-publicized issues with excessive heat so much so in the case of has well that Intel's refresh of has well Devil's Canyon had improved thermal interface material as a major selling point so Intel's tried to reduce heat output bond skylake by doing two different things one was improved power efficiency and 2 was moved 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 40 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 i7 6700 K along with 16 gigabytes of ddr4 20 400 megahertz Ram a Samsung 850 Pro 1 terabyte SSD a reference gtx 980ti and a corsair 100 a GTX liquid cooling cooler we took this set up and put it up against a devil's canyon core i7 4790k running on an asus saber-tooth z97 mark 1 also is sixteen gigabytes of 24 hundred megahertz 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 used different types of memory we overclocked both chips to a stable point seven gigahertz on one point four volts we use PC mark eight to test general performance and Cinebench along with 7-zip to give our test bench a CPU bound workload our overclocked skylake chip showed slight improvements over Devil's Canyon perhaps not enough to notice in everyday 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 seven FPS improvement in total war attila which is pretty CPU sensitive title that also really pushed our gtx 980ti at back 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 and vme drives 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