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so it's finally time to take a look at the 6600 K this is in chels latest gen CPU and also going to compare it to the 5820k and the four six seven UK ladies and gentlemen welcome to check out city this is brand coming to you guys today with a review of the 6600 k now we're going to get straight on into the benchmarks and then we're going to talk about this CPU and how compared to the other next best competitors so as you can see from the benchmarks there skylake only performed about five to seven and a half percent better than the four six seventy K and the best-case scenario was the Cinebench score there the r15 benchmark which showed seven hundred and fifty points versus six hundred and ninety-seven points now you're probably wondering why am I only getting a seven and a half percent increase at best compared other tech sites that is showing even up to twelve percent increases well that's because with Haswell you have to set the case ratio below the core clock if you set it at the same speed as the core clock or above you get a detriment or a hit to performance and I've tested this in the past and sometimes it can make a six percent difference that's right without even changing the core clock at all so when we're comparing an apples to apples for 670 K at 4.6 gigahertz versus a 6600 K at 4.6 gigahertz we end up with speeds that aren't that impressive to be honest especially for a CPU that's been released two years later now what about power consumption and heat well I will say that skylake seems to run a bit cooler even though I do have a new cooler on here so I'm not going to really be comparing temperatures and also one thing I will say about skylake is that they've got it right at least with the thermal paste on the die this time I had to actually deal in my four 670 K to get it up to a stable 4.6 gigahertz this on the other end does not need that the one thing I will point out as though this chip on average needs more voltage than it has well we'll need to get to the same core speeds which was interesting I got this to 4.6 gigahertz at one point two eight volt this on the other hand needed one point three five volt which is interesting since we're stepping down to 14 nanometer so things are kind of a little bit interesting with this chip though I will say one thing and that is that the power sumption was roughly the same though when I did the prime95 benchmark there with the maximum heat or power output this scored around about 264 watts and this scored around about 260 watts so power consumption really doesn't differ that much between these two CPUs and on idle the 6600 K rig I had was using a little bit more though keep in mind that I am running a lot more fans this time and I am running an all-in-one water cooler which will use up a bit more power on idle than when I had this rig which only had a single cooler and a single fan installed so at the end of the day can I recommend the 6600 K and then the answer to this is yes and no the yes being for those people who need the single core performance we're talking diehard ARMA 3 fans or people who just love the fastest boot speeds possible and then there comes the no recommendation this is a little bit tricky because I'm going off the top of my head here but when this was first released I remember paying around about 220 USD adjusted for this as opposed to the 6600 K which cost me around about 260 USD adjusted so we can see there we've got a $40.00 increase and we only have a 7.5 percent increase after two years so keep in mind though this is a note rink and an architectural improvement so I'm really not that impressed with the 6600 K especially when you look at what other options out there we have the 1231 v3 which is the Xeon house well it's got 8 threads it costs less than 6,600 K and you don't have to go out and buy a CPU cooler you don't have to go out and buy an overclockable motherboard and you're going to be using less power so for people on single graphics cards that makes more sense at the moment and then you have the 5820k for the people who want to step it up to productivity this thing just absolutely poops all over the 6600 K and the 4 670 K when it comes to productivity and it only costs $100 more keep in mind though the motherboards are a little bit more expensive but you're going to get much more productivity out of the 5820k as opposed to the 6600 k so before we move on to the final score I will say that I did not test the eye GPU on this because it doesn't really on this review considering broad wells out there at the moment which has a much better IG PU on board and also if you're going for price performance you might want to check out AMD's ap use as well so this leads me the final score of three and a half stars out of five I did take a whole staff just because the performance wasn't that impressive not to mention I had to give it more volts then my house well CPU to get to 4.6 gigahertz and the power consumption really didn't differ at all between these two CPUs and this is two years in the making so I'm really not impressed in that aspect I also took off another half a staff of the value for money since this CPU in relative terms is more expensive when the four 670 K was first released so weighing up those two things it leads me to the three and a half stars out of five now the person who would benefit from this as I said earlier is the person looking for the best IPC on the market as well as the motherboards as well they've got all the latest USB 3.1 on there good onboard audio good anti-seize and whatnot and you will have fun overclocking this and for me when I first got on it I did have a bit of fun but now after I'm actually critically analyzing this CPU for what it is it brings me to this score so one of the guys I hope you enjoyed this review of the 6600 K if you have any questions or comments about this skylake 6600 cake then leave a comment in the comment section below also the i7 6700 CAD involve picking that up as well as around about a hundred and fifty dollars more than the ice barbarian and for that price you could go pick yourself up at 5820k which again will knock it out of the water the productivity hey guys if you liked this video please give it a fat like and I will catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye