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ladies and gentlemen today's video is brought to you by monoprice who you might already know for their extremely well-made low-priced and lifetime warranty backed cables of all varieties but today I'm going to show you really quickly some of the other products from monoprice that I use on a regular basis monoprice does pro audio now so down here is the small sound board that we use every week for our awesome Hardware live show up here is a large diaphragm condenser microphone this one sounds great we haven't used it yet but we're going to be integrating it very soon they also have professional audio accessories such as this boom stand over here as well as the pop filter monoprice has a wide variety of power banks this one belongs to my wife and have other models available as well here's my wife's wireless bluetooth headphones so these she connects up to her smart phone and then she can wander around the house listening to her music or her audiobooks it's fantastic monoprice also has these tripods here did you know monoprice had tripods yes there's a aluminum one there's a carbon-fiber one both of those will compare it in mono pods if you need them to there's also a smaller multipurpose tripod down there and all of those come with carrying cases over here is the monoprice 4k monitor with the glossy screen and i have done a full video review on that so you can check that out if you want and lastly we have the steve helping hands steve model available at monoprice soon rights really no I'm not but definitely we're here to support you Paul and we're happy to do it on top of that you guys can pick up all these products at monoprice com alright and Steve very soon excellent what's up everyone and welcome to my second video on skylake that's right the new series of processors that intel has just announced and should now be available for sale as a couple new SKUs that they have launched there's the 6700 K that I have right here which is a quad core with hyper threading turbos to 4.4 gigahertz and it's available for about $350 u.s. there's also a 6600 K which is quad core without hyper threading that one will turbo to 3.9 gigahertz and that should be about $240 u.s. now I already did a video of the first five things that you need to know about skylake so check that if you haven't watched area that'll give you kind of an introduction to the new CPUs the new z170 chipset and the platform as well as the use of ddr4 memory which you're probably going to need by and large it Center a few outlying motherboard models so for today's video I'm going to be comparing a 6700 K's performance to a 59 30 K as well as a 4790k with a focus on gaming to tell if upgrading to skylake will get you any extra performance here's a look at my testing configurations the goal really was to neutralize any variables or at least neutralize as many variables as I could in order to really make sure that the testing was between the CPUs and nothing else so first off for the video card for all the tests I'm using the EVGA gtx 980ti this is the SC or Super clock version I'm using it with its manufacturer overclocked out-of-the-box specs so nothing was changed there is running at the same frequency frequency for all the tests it's got an EVGA x99 classified motherboard so this is a x99 socket LGA 2011 - 3 haswell-e processor configuration other than that I have the 59 30 K right in here it's being cooled by the fractal Kelvin 120 millimeter cooler and then making sure things stay comparable to in between the CPUs all of my CPUs are overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz so this is a 59 30 K run into 4.4 also for all of my three different test beds I am running a 16 gig kit of DDR or D here 3 or ddr4 memory depending what's compatible so this is a g.skill ripjaws 4 kit 4 by 4 gigs 16 gigs total this is actually a 2666 kit but as running all the memory at 2400 speed so that's my has well ii test bed for standard Haswell z97 and socket LGA 1150 I used this system right here this is the system that I built last month and this is actually the streaming system but fortunately you had a very very fresh operating system installed on it and it didn't really take much to transfer over some games and stuff and get it set up to do some benchmarking as well so here we have a gigabyte z97 X SOC motherboard that's the orange motherboard in the back CPU under there and here's where I maybe I'm going to get some crap from you guys let me know if you forgive me for doing this I know I put 4790k in the title but I actually don't have a 4790k so this is a 4770k which is essentially functionally the exact same thing as a 4790k just the 40 the 4790k it runs at 4.4 gigahertz turbo boost out of the box this one I just overclocked so ever clock to 4770k to make it equivalent with the 4790k and I I'm sorry but I hope you guys forgive me for being slightly misleading with the title but anyway there's my 4770k or 4790k depending how you look at it I'm also writing 16 gigs of memory in here this is a also g.skill tried an X ddr3 series memory that I kid actually believe goes to 20 666 but again as running at 2400 speed using the cooler master Neptune 240 L CPU cooler in there and that's pretty much it apart from that right now it's got a GTX 770 in it but of course I was running the 980 TI for the actual tests and then of course right over here is the main event although it's less of a main event now because I disassembled this whole thing so I could do video evidence stuff so either way let's take a closer look mainly what you need to see is right over here so this is the MSI motherboard I was using for these tests this is a z170a gaming m7 you might have seen this in my introductory video for skylake or the first 5 sky like things it's been a great solid little motherboard for me so far I do want to point out that I'm using a Plextor m2 m6 as I called again I should point out that I'm using a Plextor m6 e Drive in this which is a PCIe SSD which is a bit faster than the SSDs and the other drip systems but as you probably tell a moment that really didn't matter at all that didn't didn't really affect the benchmarks and apart from the motherboard and processor we of course have this memory kit here this is g.skill ripjaws 5 kit this is brand-new from g.skill candidate redesign on it and made it a little bit less flinging at least in the label English which I'm happy about but again this is a four by four gigabyte kit and this kit is also this is actually really fast kit this is a 3200 speed kit but again I just set it to 2400 for the sake of the tests speaking of tests why don't I look at some benchmarks I'm gonna talk you guys through these benchmark numbers although at first glance it might seem like that's not even really necessary working at battlefield 4 and if you look at those average Mensch mark numbers you might notice that they're all pretty much the same within about a 3% margin of error the 59 30k did get a little bit of a boost of 1080 the whether you're gaming at 1080 1440 or 4k all these CPUs seem to give you about the same gaming performance I thought battlefield 4 might give an edge to the 59 30 K because it is a bit more good at using multiple CPU cores however that didn't seem to pan out Metro last light is next and again if you're looking at those average frame rates not a whole lot of difference the 15 and 30 K bits seem to have a little bit of it an edge at 1080 I've also included minimum frame rates here those do tend to bounce around a lot but just there for your reference in case you're interested BioShock Infinite is next and since there's not a whole lot to talk about as far as differences between average frame rate so I'm going to talk about power draw 59 30 K does use a bit more power at about 395 Watts peak then the 4770k and the 6700 K however and I'm going to switch to GTA 5 here as well the 4770k and 6700 K used may be 20 to 40 watts less speaking it more like 362 380 as I was testing me at times for GTA 5 though again benchmarks are all really pretty much in the same ballpark just not a whole lot to say as far as differences in frame rates it doesn't really matter which DP you go with you're gonna get good performance so are any of these graphs going to show any difference between these CPUs well yes here's 3dmark fire strike I save this one for last because I've also included the physics test numbers and the physics test is really a CPU bound test that's just using the CPU so here we can see the 59 30 k with its six cores pulling out ahead pretty significantly in the physics test busting extreme and ultra mode as for the 6700 K it did outpaced the 4770k and here's where you can see those instructions per clock about 10% and performance improvement they can expect going from Haswell to sky so there you have it folks proof beyond the shadow of a doubt or a shadow a reasonable shadow a shadow a reasonably proved beyond doubt that's skylake is not really required for high-end gaming even if you're using a high-end graphics card like a gtx 980ti now there are other reasons to go for skylake other than just gaming if you want the new features of the z170 chipset and the motherboards to go along with it like USB 3.1 and the connectivity you get with m2 and all the extra PCI Express Lanes on the PCH and that sort of good thing but don't upgrade to skylight because you think it's going to get you a lot of extra frames per second in fact I would say even if you're going back as far as using has well even Ivy Bridge processors if you're still on z77 you're still not going to get that much of a boost by upgraded into the new processors so upgrade for the right reasons I guess is the point of this video and hopefully you now have a little bit of ammunition to show your friends if they're like I'm gonna get sky lake to give myself bit better gaming performance because that's really not going to happen now I know some of you who are on older platforms let's say you go further back like Ivy Bridge or even back to Sandy Bridge or Prior are thinking like well what about if I'm upgrading from those unfortunately there's some other really really wise folks on the internet we've done more extensive testing than I have so I'm going to post some links in the description to articles from tech report PC PC perspective as well as hot hardware you guys can check those out and those will give you some comparisons even if you're upgrading from like Sandy Bridge or something like that and honestly even then it's not that huge of a jump but if you're still on Sandy Bridge I'll say go ahead and upgrade if you're if you're in the mood for it if you're ready for a new platform because there's really a lot more performance to be gained there's a lot more cool new features like PCI Express gen3 m2 connectivity nvme a USB 3.1 all those are good reasons to upgrades and if you use your computer a lot and you're ready for an upgrade I think skylake is a great way to go and that is all for this video folks if you enjoyed it don't forget to hit that like button on your way out and leave a comment in the comment section let me know if you think about a Korean disguise like wouldn't be a bad choice in my personal opinion also down in the video description you can find links to those articles I was talking about a link to my store where you can buy shirts mugs and glasses to help support Paul's hardware also there's a link to skylake processors at retail at least if I can find them there'll be a link down there anyway which you should click and as always thank you for watching