Review: Core i5 6600K processor

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#5137214
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Why isn't there a 4670K or 4690K in the benchmarks?
Yeah, I would have liked to see a comparison of these as well, but perhaps H. doesn't have a sample of them on hand. My graphics card is never represented in the graphics card reviews either. I have to approximate its performance from the 660Ti and the 680. But, again, I'm sure the omission is due to the unavailability of the specific hardware.
#5137384
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Indeed. Great performance on i5 6600k. Just like i said, its beating past gen i7's. Overclocking makes alot of difference though, you'll need 4.5+Ghz Sandy and Ivy to match stock Skylake performance.
Indeed, never knew overclocking could make this much of an difference. At least i don't notice ANY increase when i OC mine so i left it stock for now. EDIT: Should be quiet an upgrade for me lol: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/108?vs=1544 Double the speed of my i7. 🤓
#5137551
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DX12 should take advantage of the extra threads.
How so?, even with "to the metal access" core code of games is something that hardly scales up to two cores, dx12 threaded draw calls see like 15% improvements beyond four cores, and the "next gen" cpu physics that some devs thought would kill four core cpu in game ports (under dx11 where one core was dedicated to api overhead) vanished in the air after console specs were released. Also it seems that multi-platform games wont get considerably more processor hungry any time soon because stuff like AC unity and project cars are known to be already severely cpu limited on consoles (Same with the witcher 3 where game devs have had a hard time doing world streaming with their humorous processor).
#5138237
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Indeed. Great performance on i5 6600k. Just like i said, its beating past gen i7's. Overclocking makes alot of difference though, you'll need 4.5+Ghz Sandy and Ivy to match stock Skylake performance.
I'm hoping that's true since I just ordered an i5 6600K and MSI Z170A Gaming Pro motherboard..... My poor ASRock Z77 Extreme4 is dead..... This combo: Intel Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5GHz LGA 1151 + MSI Z170A GAMING PRO Motherboard + CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 X 8GB) DDR4 2666
#5138415
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Not a real cores, not helpful.
Lol^...Hyper-threading really works...Trust Me...
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How so?, even with "to the metal access" core code of games is something that hardly scales up to two cores, dx12 threaded draw calls see like 15% improvements beyond four cores, and the "next gen" cpu physics that some devs thought would kill four core cpu in game ports (under dx11 where one core was dedicated to api overhead) vanished in the air after console specs were released. Also it seems that multi-platform games wont get considerably more processor hungry any time soon because stuff like AC unity and project cars are known to be already severely cpu limited on consoles (Same with the witcher 3 where game devs have had a hard time doing world streaming with their humorous processor).
There's more to games than drawcalls. Show me where you say DX12 doesn't scale past 2 cores. And show me where it doesn't scale beyond 4 cores too. Even though it's a contradiction.
#5138464
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What's dead about your Z77 :S. I've got the next model up from the Extreme 4. Granted, it does have better chipset cooling, better capacitors etc (supposedly), but still... I guess the wait will be annoying for you, since it won't be available until Friday the 14th. Presumably this means you may not get it until at least Monday the 17th at the earliest. Well worth the wait though 🙂.
It looks like the VRM section has failed. The wait isn't that bad. I've been without my desktop for most of the last 2 weeks. The problems began on July 25.... I've got 2 laptops so I can easily survive. One laptop has a Celeron 1007U and the other (new) laptop has an AMD A8 6410 in it.
#5138479
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Lol^...Hyper-threading really works...Trust Me...
Sure does in video encoding over 8 threads vs 4 threaded quads.
#5138480
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Sure does in video encoding over 8 threads vs 4 threaded quads.
Audio encoding too. It's not like an entire core though of course. Gaming it just doesn't have much impact. We might see a shift with DX12 as it can take more advantage of system threads. Don't know yet.
#5138481
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Hopefully mine lasts, because I don't intent upgrading until Zen comes out! Despite the i5-6600K looking good it's not a massive upgrade over what I have got, all things considered. You're lucky it happened now though, I guess it would be more annoying say, 4 months out from the release of AMD Zen or Intel Kaby Lake.
4 months out from Zen and I'd just live with my laptops until then. Unfortunately Zen isn't expected to launch for another year. I can't wait a year to fix my desktop.
#5138491
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4 months out from Zen and I'd just live with my laptops until then. Unfortunately Zen isn't expected to launch for another year. I can't wait a year to fix my desktop.
Sure you can. You just know it wouldn't be worth waiting that long.
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There's more to games than drawcalls. Show me where you say DX12 doesn't scale past 2 cores. And show me where it doesn't scale beyond 4 cores too. Even though it's a contradiction.
The core of game codes like scripts and logic isn´t that parallelizable, it doesn´t matter the dx version. Check this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing And Amdahl´s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law As for draw calls scalability see: http://www.legionhardware.com/images/review/3DMark_API_Overhead/Titan.png http://www.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2015-03-25/dx12-980.png
#5138495
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The core of game codes like scripts and logic isn´t that parallelizable, it doesn´t matter the dx version. Check this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing And Amdahl´s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law As for draw calls scalability see: http://www.legionhardware.com/images/review/3DMark_API_Overhead/Titan.png http://www.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2015-03-25/dx12-980.png
The last image looks like a GPU bound situation. I could be wrong. Star Swarm shows the same type of results > 4 cores. GPU bound.
#5138499
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The last image looks like a GPU bound situation. I could be wrong. Star Swarm shows the same type of results > 4 cores. GPU bound.
First graph titan x also got stuck at 15.8.
#5138500
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First graph titan x also got stuck at 15.8.
500 error here.
#5138508
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Sure does in video encoding over 8 threads vs 4 threaded quads.
i3's Benefit in the same way...:)
#5138588
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Sure you can. You just know it wouldn't be worth waiting that long.
it's rare that I "upgrade" purely for performance. Sometimes I build a system just to play with new hardware. In this case, the wait isn't worth the frustration. Laptop audio sucks....and since I listen to music on my computer pretty regularly, I'd lose my mind being stuck on laptops for the next year.
#5377837
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Observations... Far Cry fixed fps? Warhammer just scales up to 6 threads? i7 4770K not 84w TDP and i7 4790K 88w?

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