Skylake Core i7-6700K clocks to 5.2GHz on air cooling

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/21/2015 01:13 PM | source: | 79 comment(s)

Ok granted we have seen these leaks many times already. A screenshot of CPU-Z shows a clock-frequency of 5.2 GHz on a Core i7-6700K, that would be Skylake. According to Chinese based Hkepc they achieved this clock frequency on air cooling. It isn't stated if the CPU was stable or not.

The 5.2 GHz would be reached at 1.35V in combo with a system that runs, get this, Windows XP. In a teaser video Hkepc shows that the processor runs at 5 GHz stable at 1.286V, a screenshot proofs that SuperPi was running. 5Ghz at 1.286V is not bad, not bad at all. BTW the value in the CPU-Z screenshot is a notch lower, often releated to a bad software readout.

The Core i7-6700K is an engineering sample from intel, the chip runs 4 GHz at default base clock with a Turbo towards 4.2 GHz. The quad-core processor has 8MB cache and a 95 Watt TDP. Rumors suggest that early august this product series will launch.

Thanks to Daniël de Jong for this spot.

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sverek

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#5127618 Posted on: 07/23/2015 10:36 AM

But.. but I need 500fps to be able to play video games! My CPU totally holds me back!

Andrew LB
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#5127758 Posted on: 07/23/2015 03:03 PM

What does that even mean?

I thought Win 10 and DX12 was meant to scale across all cores, i mean wasn't all this meant to be the big improvement over previous OSes.

Doesn't Win 10 introduce real multi-threading across all cores? Of course the software used has to support it as well but that's what i thought anyway.

I saw a video on YT showing a Xeon on Win 10 with 14 cores playing a AAA game and the CPU load was like 20% shared evenly across all those 14 cores and 28 threads.

Oh no.. here we go already. Welcome aboard all AMD fanboys! The hype train will be departing momentarily! Remember to take upcoming fake benchmarks as the truth so when we arrive at product release the crushing disappointment will be just like last time!

grizzlyhoges
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#5128108 Posted on: 07/24/2015 01:59 AM

I thought the main reason to upgrade (from a gaming perspective) was when you started noticing the latest games dropping frames and becoming unplayable, not just because there is new architecture available.

Way back in 97 or 98, I can’t recall but after I managed to install a 40MB zipped up version of Quake on my Cyrix 6x86 100MHz powerhouse, it ran like a slug. Duke Nuke ran fine but I now needed more frame pushing grunt. I think I bought a Riva tnt2 ultra to help, which it did, to a certain extent, but atleast I could play it in 640x480 at high settings.
From early 2000-2010 I have probably bought half a dozen GPU’s with at least 3 complete PC rebuilds trying to keep up with current games. From 2011-2015 I have the same rebuild having only once upgraded the GPU that is circa 2013 vintage.

Sure GTA V made my rig groan as it probably did with lots of others with an average fps of 20-30 with a 2600k at stock 3.5GHZ settings, but with some tweaking and OC’ing of both CPU and GPU the game runs an average fps of 60ish (some dips) on what I would call medium graphics. On top of this, I can now run BF4 at 120fps on high settings…which is drooltastic when running the blur buster strobe in background.

But Ryrynz, don’t pull your gun out just yet. Although tech gains spiked about 3-4 years ago, I guarantee that I don’t need much of an excuse to rebuild my current PC in 6 months’ time with skylake architecture. After all, there is way too much dust my old girl and I need something new and shiny =:B

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#5128231 Posted on: 07/24/2015 11:14 AM

Gonna wait another 1-2yrs then most likely retire the old warhorse.

Then probably get a new case/screen as well.

p.s not having any game issues yet. Although yeah a 10 or so fps boost would be great.

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