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for cause and these threads on the skylake architecture for a hundred bucks you may be wondering how and why well let's answer those questions for you guys when it subscriber informed me about a $100 chip going on aliexpress it was essentially an i7 skylake engineering sample I immediately purchased one and then started doing a lot of research about the chip there were two chips in main supply with the codenames qh 8 g the one that i purchased and qhq g which is a little more expensive both have base clocks of 2.2 gigahertz so that isn't a problem on any z170 motherboard that can overclock by the base clock however the qh8 g code name chip features a zero stepping in other words it is the first production run of these chips it is so infant in production in fact that it has the I GPU portion disabled and also runs up to PC a 2.0 only reiterations before this qh8 e and q HAF are rumored to not work on any consumer motherboards at all the qhq g chip however is q0 stepping and has the a GPU enabled and also has CCA 3.0 so not only will it overclock better since it is a leader revision but it also has more features enabled and will also work with many more motherboards and biases hence the higher price though for a bargain hunter like myself the $100 qh8 G was very appealing after all I always loved me a good bargain so after delving into the depths of many Google translated Russian forums I finally stumbled upon a link to a Korean website that was in Korean that had all the biases which supported the skylake Engineering sample chips and from there I bought a motherboard listed on this website the azrog v 170 proof 4 after getting this board home I updated or for better lack of the term back dated the bastard version 2.8 and lo and behold the chip booted up and we were now good to go but one thing to keep strongly in mind is that although this chip works on my motherboard I'm not sure what motherboard and bass combinations this or other engineering sample will pacifically work on though I will put some links in the description for you guys and after I started overclocking this chip I managed to get it to around three point five five gigahertz stable at one point three nine volts via base clock overclocking and you are probably wondering this is very low compared to any retail i7 skylake or cable a chip and that is very true when we heard about intel delaying their 14 nanometer architecture back in 2013 this chip here is the exact reason why if Intel were to release a processor that could not overclock anywhere near its predecessor the i7 4790k then they would become the complete laughingstock of the tech world though tech enthusiasts even caught a glimpse of this phenomena on the Broadwell II versa haswell-e chip that is most 5820k CPUs will overclock higher than 6,800 K CPUs making many architectural improvements virtually no land void to the end-user so how does this 100-dollar i7 at three point five five gigahertz compare versus an i7 7700 K at five point one gigahertz let's find out so with my 980ti overclocked to the brink both these CPUs at 1080p performed extremely well there wasn't much of a difference there to be honest and even running some multiplayer tests in battlefield one both these cards handled the overclocked 980ti with no problems whatsoever and if going up to higher resolutions is your thing then there's going to be even less of a difference ultimately though this chip is a bargain so you will have to know how to overclock and be aware that this will only work with a certain number of motherboards and within that a certain bias reiteration also I'm sure there will be a lot of people that will say that you can't sell engineering samples and that may be true though I'm not sure on the rules there as I quite simply have not entered into any agreements with Intel and in Australia where I live there are no federal laws regarding Intel CPUs unlike weapons and drugs for example this means that for most consumers purchasing one of these CPUs should be absolutely fine though again your mileage may vary and lovely is for the awesome viewers who let us know about CPUs like this one thank you guys so much I love getting these things in researching and then sharing this video with you guys so if you like this video then be sure to leave us a like if you dislike the video - then be sure to slam that dislike button and let us know in the comment section below what do you think of the 100-dollar i7 would love to hear your thoughts and opinions as always and if you want to know more information about this cpu then be sure to head over to the tech city forums WWH cdtv slash formed and there'll be a whole thread on there where you can find out more information about this CPU anyway guys I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye