Intel Core I7-6700K Processor (4 GHz, 8 M Cache, LGA1151)

Purchased this processor for a gaming pc upgrade and paired it with an Asus Z170M-Plus motherboard, 16GB Ram and an Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB. As this unlocked 'K' version processor does not come with any cooling kit at all I opted for a Noctua NH-U9S heatsink, the case I'm using this in doesn't have a great deal of room and it fitted perfectly. The performance of this processor is quite impressive, even as stock without any overclocking. I don't really intend to overclock as I find it handles everything I can throw at it at present - but if any future game releases need a bit more power I will have the option to do so over the standard 6700 and it was only a few £'s more to buy! Paired with a Z170 chipset this makes for a very powerful and responsive pc, and editing video so much faster than my previous setup. After a 4 hour Fallout 4 gaming session the temperature barely went over 27 degrees celcius so that's also pleasing and I no longer get to hear any cooling fans! With the forthcoming Kaby Lake processors being released, this model may drop in price and make it even more of a bargain for those looking to upgrade to Skylake. I did look at holding off for the Kaby Lake but the improvements over this processor (mainly clock speed) were very small and as I use a graphics card over the iGPU it became less attractive to me. I'm hoping this processor will last me around 5 years of happy gaming until needing an upgrade!

After building a budget AMD system with what seemed like an acceptably good CPU (x4 880k) for a project that would later be my brothers gaming rig, I found AMD didn't quite cut the mustard and was the biggest bottleneck by far in the whole system and it wasn't exactly packing any amazing hardware (GTX 770, 16gb ddr3 2133mhz). Not that thought it was gonna blow mind or anything, I just didn't expect it to be anywhere near as bad as it was!! Decided to leave the budget tagline behind and make a switch back to intel as I have an i7 5930k in my gaming setup and rave about it's performance in and out of games. This 6th series Skylake chip though... this just plows through everything!! Even had me thinking twice about handing it over my brother when it was finished... haha Pair this with any GPU on the market and it will tear any game a new one! Stands toe to toe with my 5930k, hell it wouldn't surprise me if it beat it in most cases! Performance next to the 880k is lightyears ahead, obviously but AMD can't even touch this with their top tier offerings! Sorry fanboys, I used to be an AMD nut back in the day when they could make stuff to rival Intel but now? INTEL, INTEL, INTEL!! ;) Paired with a basic MSI B150m Mortar mobo as I didn't want or need to OC and 16gb of Vengeance 2133mhz ram I had laying about and it's a killer machine. Sprung new life into my old GTX 770 which as it happens still kills most games at 1080p max settings these days! Anyone who says CPU doesn't make a blindest bit of difference in games needs a reality check. This chip rocks and looks like I may have to pick up another for a second gaming rig of mine!! ;)

I'm seriously delighted with the performance of this processor in my new PC. I've built a fair number of computers over the years, and this has to be my favourite processor yet. There's no CPU cooler included in the box, which for me is fine as I've always used some sort of aftermarket cooler. In the past I used high performance air coolers like the Noctua NH-D14, but this time I settled for an NZXT X61 Kraken AIO water cooler. I have to admit being tempted by the latest Noctua air cooler, mind. Back to the processor, I love that it's unlocked, and that it's very over-clockable. Most people seem to be getting somewhere between 10 and 20% on top. It's a super quick processor, perfect for my gaming system.

Another Amazon customer gave me a hand choosing this processor via the ask questions help system and I'm not disappointed and very grateful to him for his support. I decided to pay a little more and used prime for everything else but RAM, as they didn't have the type I wanted when I required it. In my case I have been lucky and was supplied a processor that will clock and stay at a very high frequency, when compared to a friends identical unit (although cooling it efficiently for extended periods at the top end of those very high frequencies can be a challenge) This processor arrived, factory sealed and was ,most importantly, undamaged, and I probably should have gone with Amazon from the start of my build as there usually aren't any hassles if something goes wrong. Demand made prices pretty insane for a while, it looks to *SOMETIMES* come down in price considerably. *It's worth tracking the price as i'm writing this edit near the end of April 2016, and there should be plenty of these around now. On to the processor - It's pretty powerful, whilst able to operate functionally at very low power if you want it to. I have heard that it isn't always sold in a sealed retail box. Mine was. Always check this *before you buy* if you are paying the full RRP. The sealed boxed version attracts a three year warranty (at least that is what my box says) This may not suit someone who wants the dial at 11 24/7, I did manage a (quite nervous) overclock of 4.8 GHz on all four cores using 16 G 2666 DDR4 Ram and I'm using a pretty standard Z 170-A board in a budget, but adequate corsair case. If I can achieve that with a budget motherboard, I'm sure others can do as well with better. I eventually decided on keeping it at a more sensible at 4.2/3 G to ensure a longer service life and to keep my blood pressure stable:) I found I had to add an extra inlet fan at the base of my case and top just to help with the overclocking and PCH/memory cooling - and I can turn this on or off as and when. These extra fans are not required to be on if I'm not overclocking or just using the pc for basic everyday tasks. I only override or manipulate CPU fan speeds to keep my quietest Noctua fans running at their most effective with this processor. To be honest it's fine at 4 - 4.2 GHz and probably wiser to leave it there, long term Remember all K (unlocked) processors need your own cooling kit and have no fan included in the box as the locked versions will. To summarise: The main advantages of this processor are really the speed of Ram it can handle and how it's much better at communicating with all the other motherboard components and systems. This isn't the kind of processor you will always find yourself having to kill basic to moderate programs when wanting to run one heavy one, it can tackle being pushed quite hard. I have not had a single blue screen,nor a major crash yet- since December last year. I did buy a new SSD and new Os so nothing was migrated from an old system until I knew it was stable. It actually helps draw more performance (possibly with the aid of the Z170 motherboard) out of my last GPU to a level that make s it look like an upgraded card. Z 170 On-board graphics v last gen seem a leap in static visual quality and clarity of fonts is very much improved on a good IPS monitor - a really capable and stoic raster that feels more alive to the eyes. If someone wanted a really fast non-gaming general purpose pc,they might not need to add any additional graphics cards to the Z170 motherboards with this chip installed. Adding a SSD with the OS on it makes this fly. It absolutely laughs at anything to do with productivity like word, and browsing with over 20 tabs open is no big deal ,and with a moderate level GPU it handles cad well. If you have the cash for a good GPU and are a gamer or use graphic intensive programs, you probably already know the importance of a reasonable graphics card (or two) Might be an idea to run a 64 bit browser on this if you want more stability and security. Reservations (or things to think about) are mainly that you really do need to watch the temperatures on these skylakes,it's likely going to be the norm from now on at 14 nm when combined with higher clocking frequencies. Cpu's that clock at much higher frequencies with smaller tracking will not tolerate being used to their full potential with poor cooling solutions. A stock cooler on this would likely mean you have to use power management all the time and literally underclock it. There are perhaps more robust previous gen processors at the high end at not much more price, but without the abilities in other areas like better on-board graphics for the chipset used , USB 3.1 and lower power consumption when in power saving modes. It seems to score particularly high on Encryption. In most benchmarks(when all voltages and freq's are fine) I do see a improvement over most of the last 4 core i7's It does* not* outperform the six core last gen I7's on anything other than encryption and what frequency of ram that can be used,but it is very very near to a substantial performance in a comparison test. When dual processor boards start to arrive, I envisage a lot of people dropping two of these in a system and that becoming a new trend. Some fine tuning was required for the ram, but that was down to my first revision motherboard, and the fact everything has changed since my last self build. With a Noctua Cpu fan and radiator this, idles at around 25-6 c for me. I noticed very sudden fluctuations in temperature for 200-800 ms at above 10 C extra a time on individual cores with an extreme (air cooled) o/c (but never all cores at once) that should serve as a warning that these things are not to be pushed to "level silly" too much once you are sure all your voltages and temps are within 'safe' tolerances. It's not worth frying this really nice processor for theoretical numbers to brag about that are not healthy for it and do not translate to stability.

Awseome Processor made me play all the Pro Games and also compitable for dual doot Windows/MAC My System Configuration : Processor : Intel Core i7-6700K LGA 1151 Processor Mother Board : Asus Z170 Pro Gaming - LGA1151 for 6th Generation Processor (DDR4 upto 3400MHz, USB 3.1, Intel Z170 Chipset) MotherBoard Liquid Cooling : Hydro SeriesTM H100i GTX Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler RAM : Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) 3000 MHz - CL15 - XMP 2.0 DDR4 Desktop Memory Kit for X99 and Z170 Chipset Graphic Card : Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 Strix DirectCU II Graphics Card (4 GB, GDDR5, PCI Express 3.0, HDMI, DVI-I, 3 x Display Port) SMPS : Corsair CP-9020098-UK VS Series VS650 650 Watt Power Supply Unit SSD : Samsung 850 EVO 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E120B/AM) Just go ahead and buy it & get the ultimate gaming experience

For the price you cannot go wrong with this. The only issue that I found was that the number of PCIe lanes described in the documentation for this CPU was not enough for what I wanted. The specs say it has 16 lanes, but my video card alone needs 16 lanes. Plus I have an M.2 hard drive that needs 4. I almost didn't buy it, and went with a different CPU and motherboard. But, I did some more research and found that these are just the lanes in the CPU, and the bridge chip has its own lanes. These lanes are really intended for the graphics card only. So, if you look how the motherboard is setup, these 16 lanes go to the first x16 slot intended for a video card. That is how mine is. Then the skylake chipset that is paired with this CPU has 20 more lanes. That is enough for another x16 card, and a x4 M.2 hard drive or whatever. So, you actually end up with 36 lanes of PCIe between the two. Once I saw that, there was no question this is for me. It is a 14nm process, which is one of the newer processes, and it runs at 4Ghz, The CPU is unlocked, so you can overclock if you want. I put on a water cooler and just did some brief checks with OC, and I ran at 4.5Ghz without issue. However, I really don't need it and I don't want to risk burning it out fast, so I put it back to 4Ghz for now. But, I know I can run much faster in the future if I want to. As for specs and performance, this is a middle of the road 4 core, 8 thread CPU. It has the memory controller built in, supporting DDR4 memory, which is what I use, and the performance is just staggering. >34GB/s of memory throughput, that's wild. The CPU has 8MB of smartcache that is shared amongst the cores. This is much better than normal cache, it allows a program in cache to be shared with another core, when the thread jumps to a new core, without copying the data to another location in cache. The performance increase of this small feature is quite large. The CPU has a decent video card built in, but I don't use it. I opted for the Nvidia GTX1080. Combining this CPU with that graphics card, M.2 drive, and DDR4 memory makes this a powerhouse that can stand its own against basically anything. However, the built in graphics do support 4K resolutions, so if you are not playing cutting edge games, or VR, the graphics card built in is probably all you would ever need. Without going into the technical specifics of this CPU, it basically has all the features that you would expect from any i7 CPU. The price, for what you get, is really unbeatable. You can get an i7 with more cores, or cache, but you will pay a large amount more. For 99.99% of people out there this is more than you will need. There is nothing you will get from the CPUs that are 2X+ the price that you will even notice. Just make sure you pair this with a good chipset, like the Z170, and never look back, you will run so fast you won't believe it. My PC runs windows 10. From the time the BIOS screen disappears to when it needs my password is about 3.5 seconds. From hitting enter after my password until the machine is fully booted, and I have full control, no hourglass, etc, is about 2-2.5 seconds. So, I boot in under 6 seconds, basically. That is a full cold boot, not a resume from sleep. Pros: 4Ghz, unlocked and ready for overclocking (use a water cooler if you overclock this bad-boy). 4K graphics built in. 16 lanes of PCIe on board for fast access to the video card. 20 more lanes of PCIe on the chipset, so you can have another 16x video card, and a M.2 x4 drive, or whatever else you might want. New generation cache speeds up thread jumping from core to core. DDR4 memory controller with >34GB/s throughput. The biggest PRO is the price, for what you get. Cons: Would have been nice to have 12MB or more of cache, but the cost would have been significantly more. For the price, there is really no downside to this CPU.

El procesador Intel Core i7-6700K llega en una moderna caja OJO no incluye el habitual disipador. El Intel Core i7-6700K ofrece 4 núcleos, que a su vez ofrecen 8 hilos gracias al uso de la tecnología HyperThreading de Intel, con una frecuencia base de 4.00 GHz que asciende hasta los 4.20 GHz en modo Turbo. Mantiene los 8 MB de memoria cache L3 del i7-4790K, así como los 4 x 32 KB + 4 x 32KB para instrucciones y datos en el primer nivel, 4 x 256 KB en el segundo nivel, pero vemos como el TDP sube a los 95W, por el incremento de potencia de los gráficos integrados. Lo recomiendo sin duda yo note un cambio abismal de un i3 6100 a este i7 6700k

Con un PC de nivel similar a este componente tengo unas temperaturas idle de 23-25 grados y con carga máxima de 50 grados como muchísimo. Cumple sobradamente con todos los juegos actuales y con funciones de renderizado también. Sin quejas salvo, quizá, su precio. Ni de coña me hubiera ido a por un 7700k, bastante más calenturiento para las mismas funciones. Con un poco de OC básico este 6700k se funde al siguiente rebajando temperaturas a la mitad.

Per il PC che ho costruito a mio nipote, che studia grafica, ho scelto questo i7 da ben 4.00 GHz (fino a 4.20 con le tecnologie Intel) con 4 core e ben 8 thread! Supporta anche RAM DDR4, ha una grafica integrata Intel HD Graphics 530 con una risoluzione massima di 4096x2304 pixel, che supporta 3 schermi, e le interfacce DVI, HDMI, DP, ed eDP! Oltre alle tecnologie video Intel Quick Sync Video, Intru 3D, Insider, Wireless Display e Clear Video HD. Tornando al processore, supporta le tecnologie Intel Turbo Boost 2.0, Hyper-Threading, Stati di inattività, SpeedStep Avanzato, Monitoraggio Termico, Protezione d'identità, Small Business Advantage, i sistemi di sicurezza Intel AES New Instructions, Secure Key, Software Guard Extension, Memory Protection Extension, OS Guard, Execute Disable Bit. Che altro dire? Il prezzo è alto, ma per chi ha bisogno di potenza al momento è una delle scelte migliori (o una di esse). Fornito solo il processore, non aspettatevi un dissipatore o pasta termica all'interno della confezione.