Intel "Skylake" to be 6th Generation Core Series, First i7-6700K Benchmarks

[aicragleon]

*pats 3930k system's tower like a puppy's head

Don't worry, your place is still safe

Shoot, I still have my EVGA SR-2 with 2x X5660s. I could even get some X5680s for cheap if I wanted to, but there is no point since this overclocks the X5660s just fine. This build is still relevant today even though the board was released in 2010. See them on ebay and their prices still. No other 2010 board sells for that much. The CPUs are slightly overclocked and I have it loaded with 96GB 1333 DDR3 currently and to beat this system, I would have to pay a lot of money so there is still no point.

edit: wait, just looked on ebay, maybe they are all in the hands of people who don't want to get rid of them or maybe it is time to upgrade.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

Shoot, I still have my EVGA SR-2 with 2x X5660s. I could even get some X5680s for cheap if I wanted to, but there is no point since this overclocks the X5660s just fine. This build is still relevant today even though the board was released in 2010. See them on ebay and their prices still. No other 2010 board sells for that much. The CPUs are slightly overclocked and I have it loaded with 96GB 1333 DDR3 currently and to beat this system, I would have to pay a lot of money so there is still no point.

edit: wait, just looked on ebay, maybe they are all in the hands of people who don't want to get rid of them or maybe it is time to upgrade.

Supermicro has several dual socket 1366 boards available well around $100-125 on Ebay. I have one I was intending to build a dual 5660 system with for crunching. Supermicro builds quality motherboards, you just don't hear about them in mainstream because they build motherboards intended for servers.

 

[peche]

Looks like a decent performance boost if claims are true. My Z77 feature set is growing a little stale, so this may be a good upgrade.

just no ... i have the same chip on z68 chipset ... just no ...

It's NOT 6th generation. It's 6th REFRESH.

It's same Core architecture we know from 2006 or so. Because AMD are nowhere (except producing beautiful slides) to be found, Intel can do nothing and offer minor tweaks instead offering real progress - like moving from P4 to C2D and then i7 920. That's generational sift. 1151/1150/1155/6 damn so many numbers... all the same inside.

no ... broadwell was the 4th gen refresh ... pretty bad move on intel side....


well i hope i can get a 3770K to take full advantage of my current Z68 chipset someday and see how i can do at 5.0GHZ .... i may say to skylake ... not today b*tch ...

 

[RealNeil]

Just took my i7-2600K Z68 system apart and replaced it with an i7-4770K Z87 G1 Sniper 5.

The same GPUs are in it, and the same drives. My Firestrike score went from 13,437 to 16,580. So it's a good upgrade for me.