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fractal venturi fans love radiators yes they do excellent welcome to today's video everyone if you're watching this it means intel has launched or at least formally announced skylake aka Intel's 6th generation Core processor line which we will now just call skylake because I prefer fewer syllables this is a core i7 6700 K being held covetously by my little msi dragon here and there's going to be a ton of reviews benchmarks and other content out there surrounding this launch but I wanted to start with a quick and simple first 5 video to give you guys a better idea of the skylight Hilux this guy like highlights Hilux Joe Egan the first thing that you need to know about skylake is that you will need new hardware if you're upgrading at the very least you will need a new socket LGA 1151 motherboard as older socket 1150 and prior motherboards won't work with the new processors I would recommend a motherboard like this MSI is z170a gaming m7 with the z170 chipset since that unlocks overclocking 4k Series CPUs like the 6700 K and 6600 K but there are other hundred series chipsets like the H 170 out there if you're on a budget you'll also need ddr4 memories since skylake supports dual-channel ddr2 but apart from that you can probably upgrade an existing system with a CPU motherboard and new memory alone the only other concern might be your power supply which needs to meet the power supplier requirements that were set out when Haswell launched which most do but some don't so double check the second thing you will need to know is a bit more about the memory situation skylake supports dual channel memory for both ddr4 and ddr3l that doesn't mean you can pick up either one though as it will be up to the motherboard manufacturer to provide connections for ddr4 ddr3l or in rare situations both let's just say that you're basically going to need ddr4 memory like this g.skill ripjaws v kit a new design by the way I'm liking the look because pretty much every z170 board I've seen uses ddr4 only and for desktop systems that will be the norm it wouldn't even matter if you got a board with ddr3 ll support though because note the L in ddr3l it's not the same as the ddr3 that you've been using for the past however many years so saving some money by moving ddr3 over the skylake just won't work there's a slim bit of a chance that some motherboard manufacturers might shoehorn in standard ddr3 support but for now just plan on getting ddr4 a couple other memory notes XMP 2.0 is now supported which is cool just bear in mind that XMP 1.3 profiles might not work so if you're using slightly older ddr4 from haswell-e system you might need to dial in your speeds and timings manually also you can now overclock memory in 100 and 133 megahertz increments as opposed to the two hundred and two hundred and sixty six megahertz increments that were available before the third thing you need to know is that these new case cue CPUs the 6700 K which is a quad-core with hyper-threading and the 6600 K which is a quad core without hyper threading sounds familiar right don't come with stock heatsink fans anymore just like the haswell-e enthusiast processors hooray well kind of hooray come to think of it apart from Intel saving on some bomb costs and shipping weight this doesn't really do us much good apart from having one fewer stock heatsink fans lying around collecting dust maybe that appeals to you but I will also point out that the CPU socket layout again has not changed so any CPU cooler you already have its LGA 1156 1155 1150 or 1151 compatible will still work and that is kind of nice Ln the boxes are fancy and more colorful now to the fourth thing you need to know is actually a small grouping of things related to overclocking hooray for overclocking okay so the fiber fully integrated voltage regulation that was part of the CPU die for Haswell and Devil's Canyon CPUs has been moved back off of the die this means that motherboards control the voltage regulation again which means higher-end motherboards might actually overclock better again and this will also hopefully keep the CPU temperatures down comparatively intel is continuing to use their next-generation polymer thermal interface material on skylake that's the same Tim that they used on Devil's Canyon which is also good news for overclocking you also get granular control of the BC LK or base clock meaning you can ramp it up 1 megahertz at a time instead of using the preset straps that were available previously like 100 125 etc to do this they've actually isolated the peg and EMI area from the base clock which I'm sure my slightly out of focus slides are doing a great job of demonstrating here oh also the CPU core ratio can now go up to 83 that's as compared to 80 with doubles Canyon so I expect all of you to be overclocking your 6700 k's the 8.3 gigahertz okay and the fifth thing you need to know is that there's more IO now up to 40% more depending on your motherboard as there are now up to 20 PCIe lanes available off the PCH the PCH is the peripheral controller hub that's part of the chipset which connects up stuff like storage by the way this means that you can connect more drives you can have access to multiple m2 slots for example or Santa express ports and you won't disable one thing by plugging in another well ok you can still disable one thing by plugging in another and there is going to be some confusion around what all can be connected at the same time with full bandwidth available but that will vary greatly from motherboard to motherboard because there's just lots of weights ways to implement that connectivity remember that these lanes are for the PCH not for GPUs or other expansion cards you still just have 16 PCI Express gen3 lanes natively on the CPU for that I think this was to allow for more storage and i/o connectivity without starting the 6700 K to compete to 5820k we can discuss that more in a different video though finally there's talk of Thunderbolt 3 support with this new hardware providing 40 gigabits per second of bandwidth and allowing you to support Thunderbolt USB 3.1 DisplayPort and Power all via a single USB type-c connector that's pretty freaking cool and that is all five things there's still a lot more to talk about with skylake though such as how does it overclock I have an overclocking video coming out very very soon the question is how much faster is it then say fourth or fifth generation Intel CPUs answer would be about 10 to 20 percent depending on what you're doing how about comparing it to X 99 and haswell-e well those six core enthusiast CPUs are still going to be faster but skylake does have an advantage in instructions per clock meaning it might get better comport better performance and games are apps that can only use up to 4 CPU cores but that's all stuff for upcoming videos I want to hear from my early adopters out there though who has heard enough already and will be diving headfirst into the cool blue waters of sky Lake ASAP and if you did dive into a lake in the sky could you accidentally swim through the bottom of it and then fall to a grisly death these are the questions that not me anyway though let me know in the comment section down below do me a huge solid and hit that like button but only if you actually liked the video of course share this video too if you know anyone who might like it check out my store and support my wide range of personal vices by buying a shirt mug or pipe blasts subscribe to my channel if you haven't already for more tech videos coming very soon and as always thank you for watching you