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hey everyone Greg here with science studio we've completed our first intel skylake build this one featuring the Intel Core i3 6100 and if you didn't get a chance to watch our holiday budget build videos last week we'll review all the parts we purchased in this video at the core of our build is of course the Intel i3 6100 a part of the new skylake lineup now it's packing two cores and four threads thanks to hyper threading but it holds its own in games and will prove that shortly so our asrock pro 4 z170 motherboard came in and it looked even better in person to be honest first things first let's go ahead and unhinge the locking mechanism protecting the CPU pins make a note of the white arrow on the board and match it up to the golden arrow on the CPU itself gently place the CPU into place with both arrows pointing in the same direction and then riehen to the socket lock the plastic cover on top should just pop right off at this point we purchased another cooler master hyper t44 this rig for the simple reason that we loved it so much on our earlier scorpion build no really that that's actually why we purchased it it cooled our FX 6300 so well that we decided to kind of implement it into our I 3 build here and of course while our CPU cannot be manually overclocked it will keep it nice and cool during CPU intensive tasks and games it's also much better than the stock Intel cooler to be quite frank so follow the instructions that came with the cooler corresponding to the LGA socket 1151 motherboard layout which is the layout of the Azeroth board that we have here make sure that nothing is too tight or too loose things should screw on nice and snug but don't force anything grab a hold of some thermal glue in our case Arctic silver 5 high-density silver paste and dab a pea-sized amount on top of the CPU place the cooler on next being sure to use the hinge that came with the accessory there should be a nice firm snap into place when rotating that black lever so at this point your CPU should be completely installed our 26 66 megahertz of ddr4 all nice and blingy is being installed next now for a dual channel array with these pan Ram dims place them in either slots 1 & 3 or 2 & 4 because the cooler in this case is being mounted vertically we don't have any issue with Ram height like we did in our last build so you can actually afford to purchase dims with more ostentatious heat sinks if that pleases you snappy i/o shield that came with your motherboard into place at the back of your Tower and prepped you're assembled motherboard or the merge the march to Marge we have cables hanging all over the place in our case because we reuse an old NZXT s340 tower but the power supply and cable management phases of the building process typically come right after this step rather than right before it once you do have your motherboard situated and screwed into place install the following items your power supply of course your hard drives and or solid-state drives as well as any case fans you may have laying around oh and don't forget your graphics card while our Intel i3 does house onboard graphics a separate graphics card is always recommended but not most importantly here be sure that everything is wired correctly if you think you may have a faulty part be sure that you've wired it correctly first to verify that it is actually faulty and that it's not just the fact that it's not plugged into your power supply or motherboard or both so when assembling is complete give that power button a push and cross your fingers if you see lights you've wired some things correctly but if you see a post that is a screen notification that the BIOS is loading then you've likely wired everything correctly but you can verify this in the BIOS itself as long as everything is installed and it's being detected you're likely in the clear so not only do we have the cooler master hyper t4 here but underneath that obviously is the Intel Core i3 6100 like I said clocked at 3.7 gigahertz I believe it turbos to like 4.0 maybe 4.1 don't quote me on that but it does turbo above its stock frequency so that's something to take note of as well the motherboard is in asrock LGA 1151 pro 4 board it's a z170 board so it has the ability to overclock a CPU if that CPU is overclockable in this case obviously it's not but a simple swap with an Intel i5 6600 K or 6700 k i7 would would you know why you'd overclock so that's cool so there's some upgrade ability in this system you know I don't have to go buy a whole new motherboard if you want to overclock CPU so that's quite nice the CPU is pretty cheap compared to the competitors I didn't have any problem just installing it right away installing Windows after that I've read a few comments about how you you know should update your BIOS right away or your system will start crashing after a while I haven't updated the BIOS because I don't like updating BIOS as it just it's not it's never worked out for me so I'm gonna go as long as I can without updating BIOS just for the sake of stability at this point in time so let's jump on over to the benchmarks for this system we use two Geekbench 3 first to benchmark our CPUs performance you can see our system hooked up to our right and right away we were impressed with what we saw now for just a two core four thread processor we yielded a single core 32-bit score of three thousand eight hundred and eighty six which is actually the third highest of any CPU score on geek benches website that's super impressive for a 120 dollar processor we had to scroll down quite a bit actually to find AMD's FX series processors on the list the 8350 single core score whose architecture is very similar to that of the FX 6300 from our scorpion build was much lower than our 38 86 score so not bad for our little i3 Heaven benchmark was up next to test the GPU side of things and at Ultra settings and MSAA at times two-wheel did an average FPS rate of 31.3 also not bad at all for our little r7 370 which only cost us about $160 we perform some real-world installing to test the power of our SanDisk SSD the specs of which are posted on our $600 skylight build video and we were very impressed with how snappy everything loaded and installed wow that was quick GTA was up next which acted as a blend between CPU and GPU performance since GTA is notably a very CPU intensive game and we were very impressed with how it ran everything was set to very high and msaa was off however we had long-distance scaling maxed out and even turned on the high definition while flying option keep in mind this is being run with a dual-core hyper threaded processor eight gigabytes of 26 66 megahertz ddr4 and a 4 gigabyte asus strix r7 370 the total price tag of which comes out to just over $300 that's insane performance for the price our Cinebench score was okay the only depressing one of the bunch we only obtained a score of 381 which is actually a little under half of what you'd get from a Haswell i7 but when you consider the fact that the i3 only has two physical cores it lightens the mood a bit after all we're not purchasing this processor for heavy video rendering or anything of that sort so all in all when you consider what exactly you're getting performance wise for your dollar this intel skylake III is a solid choice games will run a super smooth when paired with any modern and efficient graphics card probably $150 and over and will also be aided by the ultra-fast and resourceful nature of ddr4 that comes along with it if you're a gta5 junkie like I am then this set up is for you expect to play almost any game you'd like with this set up at 1080p with a stellar FPS rate you can take that to the bank thanks so much for building along with us stay tuned for future videos for sure give us a like if you thought we were great give us a dislike if you thought we were terrible and please leave feedback or questions in the comment section below those are always welcome and 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