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the i5 6600 K the i7 6700 K and the i7 6900 K for cores and for threads for cores and eight threads and eight cores 16 threads all with prices to match yeah I know so with all of this height behind the x99 platform Broadwell eat chips and quad-channel memory is the 6900 k a logical or insane choice I'll make this one simple for you rather than trusting a random person on some forum who may not even own the processor in question or a sketchy graph on a not so reliable website let's look at the cold hard facts based on reliable and relatable benchmarking data I won't waste your time here are the specs for each platform essentially Walter white version 1.0 versus Walter white version 2.0 waltz right version 2.0 is that one right there 30 minutes of I 264 was my stability baseline and temperatures exceeded ADC frequency and voltage were adjusted accordingly that's how we arrived here both our 66 and 67 hundred K or overclocked to 4.6 gigahertz at one point three eight volts and the sixty nine hundred K was overclocked to four point four gigahertz at one point three nine volts sixteen gigabytes of ddr4 at three thousand megahertz were used for both tests the only difference here being that the x99s platform utilized the quad channel array whereas dual channel was in effect for that of the z1 70s this is a trade-off between both platforms and will most certainly be taken advantage of although it's unlikely to sway many of these results these are cpu synthetic tests so each processor will have two unique scores one with virtually no background processes running and the other with three chrome tabs twitter youtube and amazon the windows Pandora app and Nvidia shadowplay all running in the background since only heavy multitaskers or renderer should consider anything above an i-5 it's only fair that we take advantage of the extra threads packed into the i7 processors for those of you also interested in gaming benchmarks those will be available for you in a card right here with that let's analyze first up the typical set of inch r15 runs the sixty nine hundred K absolutely wipes the floor with it's much cheaper counterparts but no surprise there keep in mind as we analyze these graphs that the sixty nine hundred K cost nearly three times as much as the 6700 K in terms of score percent decrease with the background processes running we can see the sixty nine hundred K was largely unaffected while the 6600 K embraced a substantial performance hit 7-zip is up next extraction and compression takes place during this benchmark and while the margins are a bit narrower the sixty nine hundred K still impressively outperformed the 6700 K something else to note an extremely minut degree of degradation because of said background processes both the 66 and 67 hundred KS definitely struggled here for RAW processing power another grade standard is Geekbench with the result of version four score variance changed slightly but overall we can still get a feel for both single and multi-core performance with these three CPUs while multi-core scores were dominated by the eight core giant the 6700 K demolishes the broad wall a powerhouse when it comes to single core performance a noteworthy observation for gamers this undoubtedly makes a 6700 K a better choice for gaming as most games only utilize a maximum of four physical cores currently the 6600 K single core score is also in the ballpark and arguably a better bet for those who intend to only play video games on their PC more on that in a video right here in terms of multitasking potential however the 6900 case shows its true colors we experienced only a quarter of a single percent decrease in Geekbench scores while running several programs in the background in Adobe Premiere Pro I exported a 10-minute 1080p 60fps file in the YouTube 1080p h.264 preset and recorded total render times I purchased the 69 hundred K primarily for editing and rendering but was largely disappointed with these results the 8 quart ship was only a minute and a half faster than 6,700 K that's only 27% for a 300% price differential most of this is due to core optimization the W premier just isn't there yet and CPU usage during the multitasking run still never pegged 90 percent these results will vary depending on your video editing platform and its current version lastly we have handbrake which I use to convert a one-minute mp4 file into the MKV format which is free and open source what you're looking at here are the conversion times in seconds as expected the 6900 K finishes in nearly half the time required by the 6700 K and the 6600 K nearly doubled that time handbrake can be very taxing when converting multimedia and that's why we see consistent time percent increases across the board the i-5 of course experiencing the worst of it so now that you've gotten to experience firsthand the performance gains associated with a $1,000.00 processor are you a bit disappointed so am i I'll be completely honest about that even after taking the entire build price into account I still can't justify the x99 platform which is why I was against it in the first place I explain it more in a video right here now don't get me wrong my workflow efficiency has definitely increased I expected that I mean I'm paying $1000 the processor better be pretty darn good when you start taking into consideration the price to performance ratios and just how much more you have to spend on the platform altogether even if you take the entire price of the PC into account it still doesn't justify a one thousand dollar price tag I do have forty PCIe lanes good for my to ten 70s and SLI I do have quad channel memory again performance gains are marginal I just don't see it adding up whereas with the 6700 K and a z170 platform you're paying less overall for the entire system and you're getting some pretty solid single core performance in fact some of the best out there if you look at the geek bench score of the 6700 K it's in the five thousands that's definitely a huge change from the roughly four thousand score we received our single core geek bench test and when it comes to strictly gaming forget about x99 did you get that forget about x99 take my word for it you're much better off of the desktop grade i 5 or i7 again don't waste your money on anything above an i7 6700 K for gaming you just you won't reap the benefits of having extra cores at your disposal because most games aren't optimized for six or eight or definitely ten core behemoths if you liked this video be sure to give it a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you do feel complete opposite or if you hate everything about life be sure to put and subscribe but if you have any stay tuned for another PC built on the way actually I expected to be here next week sometime and I'm doing some upgrades to Walter white version 2.0 behind me this is science studio thanks for learning with us