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let's be honest with each other a lot of what we do in the do-it-yourself PC community is because we can and that's not always a bad thing especially if you just want to throw in some sick looking lighting or something like that but today we're talking about CPUs specifically Intel's new Broadwell II enthusiasts line even though CPU cores have become a little like cylinders in your city only cruising sedans engine where the only point in having a v12 is they screw you I have 12 cylinders intel is hoping that its new top-end 10 core behemoth with a price to match will be a hit with those who need top-end performance so let's take a look at it and the rest of the Broadwell Uihlein and see if it's more than just a status symbol for techies the GTX tennety amp Xtreme from ZOTAC features their ice storm cooler with triple 90 millimeter eco fans for better airflow and heat extraction check out the link below to learn more so it's been almost two years since we've gotten a new line of enthusiast processors from Intel the main thing that sets these CPUs apart from their mainstream brethren is the inclusion of more cores and the inclusion of more RAM slots Broadwell II is no exception the bottom two chips on the latter the core i7 6800 K and 68 50 K are each hexa core with the latter providing 40 PCI Express Lanes instead of 28 while the 69 hundred K features eight cores and 16 threads meaning it's essentially a direct replacement for the previous toppdogg the i7 59 60 X but if you want to go all out the new chip sitting at the top of the heap is the 69 50 X featuring 10 cores and 20 threads the most that intel has ever packed into an enthusiast class cpu of course it shouldn't be surprising that since Intel is trying to set 10 cores as the new gold standard for desktops consumers will pay a hefty premium the chips MSRP is over seventeen hundred US dollars enough to build an entire high-end gaming rig with peripherals that would be like pretty good and all you're really getting for the $600 premium over the roughly $1100 sixty nine hundred K other than the X and the model number that is important to some people are to more cores and an extra five megabytes of cache and even then you take an overall hit on clock speed now huge price jumps for more cores isn't exactly new for 2ne1 but spending that much for two more cores when you're already at eight and then taking a hit in the speed department is Fe especially at that cost our best guess is that Intel priced at this high to keep part of their xeon line from being cannibalized by the highest and core i7s as many xeon SKUs have ten cores and we'll work on consumer grade x99 motherboards but or the average home PC builder how can anything actually justify forking this much money over for well broad Raleigh does come with a cool feature where the core with the greatest overclocking potential as determined by Intel the factory is marked in the BIOS with an asterisk so if you're running a heavily single-threaded application and want the best possible performance you can overclock that core alone then in windows until turbo boost 3.0 will automatically set the affinity of that application to that core specifically making optimizing performance for single threaded programs pretty easy but that alone won't get most of you to spend $1,700 especially as these features are on all the broad well II SKUs not just 269 50 X and even then why are you optimizing for single core applications if you're buying one of these CPUs you should probably be buying one of these CPUs for definitely multi-threaded applications as in single core they don't do that great so speaking of which let's talk about performance instead we benchmarked all four broad well eat chips on the X 99 Deluxe - from a soos which features their new aura on board RGB lighting for not only some cool effects on the PCIe slots but also for the rest of your rig which is pretty cool as it has a header to allow board lighting effects to sync with other case lights you also get a u dot 2 and m dot 2 slots for higher-end nvme SSDs an extra 4 pin connector for additional CPU power and USB 3.1 support including a type-c connector the rest of our testbench consisted of 32 gigabytes of corsair dominator ddr4 and h100 i GTX a i/o a geforce gtx 1080 founders Edition and a Kingston HyperX savage SSD we tested the Broadwell e line against the previous generation 5960 x as well as the current skylake core i7 6700 k so we instead use the a Suzy 170 deluxe for the latter right off the bat it's pretty fair to say that it's hard to justify buying any bra well echip if your heaviest work load will be gaming as the $315 skylake 6700 K beat every single Broadwell e scue in all of our gaming benchmarks including the flagship 69 50 X even in cities skylines which tends to be more CPU bound than many other titles but of course that's not surprising it's been known for a long time that CPUs with more than four cores see more utility on the content creation side and with things like file compression or encryption here we see more threads and cores benefiting in Cinebench 7-zip and H dot 264 video rendering as well as in Ida 64 AES encryption benchmark photo editing benchmarks were a bit of a mixed bag however which I 264 s Photoworks benchmark favoring the higher core count of Broadwell II but real benches GIMP tests showed the skylake 6700 K pull ahead on the single core tasks indeed Cinebench is single core benchmark showed the 6700 K well ahead of the other four Broadwell II chips as well but what about overclocking could cranking up our clock speeds add more value to the broad well a line we chose to overclock the 6900 K since it's the closest thing to a direct upgrade from the older x-series skew we got our review sample up to four point three gigahertz or 300 megahertz over the stock turbo boost unfortunately there was a huge power and thermal penalty as CPU cores shot up to 88 degrees Celsius and we had to put 1.37 5 volts through the processor to get it stable not exactly ideal since the last gen haswell-e series seemed to have a little more headroom across the board performance did increase notably in some benchmarks with the overclock but single core performance still lagged behind our 6700 K running at stock speeds so with all of that said do any of these CPUs really make any sense no doubt there are real scenarios like three rendering or really heavy encryption work where more cores do matter but from a price to performance standpoint the 68-hundred que seems to make the most sense since you're only paying 120 dollars more than you would for a 6700 K and get two extra hyper-threaded cores and while it only has 28 PCI Express lanes that might not be as important as it used to be especially as nvidia is no longer supporting more than two graphics cards in sli for gaming purposes and you'll pay a hefty premium to upgrade to the 6850 k's 40 lanes I'm talking almost another $200 so while broad well II might be the ultimate thing for enthusiasts to drool over right now I'd rather spend my money on the glam that won't spend its life hidden under a water block even though that would probably be pretty cool today we're highlighting the k7 xx black headphones of course from Mass drop and they have a bunch of other cool products that you can check out at the link in the video description as well hopefully you guys know about mass drop by now but if not the concept is still pretty simple the more people commit to a purchase the more people that commit to a certain price for a certain product the lower the price of that product goes these are the exact same ones that Lance reviewed last a year and remember this is a limited drop so if you want a pair you're going to have to act pretty fast these headphones were configured by mass drop and manufactured by AKG so if you want to check them out and grab a pair of k7 xx headphones head over to the link in the video description down below thanks for watching guys if you liked this video and you're like I'm going to buy the 6800 or maybe just not an enthusiast series one because I want to play games cool if you dislike the video cuz your life screw you I want ten cores and I don't care about gaming performance and I don't do anything else with it anyways I just want ten cores you can yeah you can do that if you want to purchase one of the items featured in this video check out Amazon if you want to talk about the items featured in this video check out the forum you become a contributor there it doesn't really do a ton but it's like cool and you get a little badge thing and some people care about those and there's also like a member title thingy that shows up and it's different colors depending on what to don't worry about it if you want to see our review of the 6700 K check that out up here gaming processor that's what it's marketed for so that actually totally makes sense