Testseek.com have collected 291 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 6700K 4GHz Socket 1151 and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 6700K 4GHz Socket 1151.
August 2015
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The editors liked
Improved performance over Haswell
Better power efficiency
More overclocking options than Haswell
More stable overclocking than Haswell
40% more high-speed I/O lanes
Support for DD4 and DDR3
Excellent Multi-threading Performance
Very Reasonable Price
Strong Overclocking Potential
Reasonably priced
Overall improved performance
Quick Sync
HyperThreading
Improved HD video performance
Unlocked
Low Power
Improvement over Devil's Canyon
4.2 GHz stock performance
Top quad core performance
Fastest CPU we've tested
Outside of much pricier Extreme Edition chips
Simplified overclocking options
Chipset delivers more PCI Express wiggle room for super-fast storage
Overclocking options are easier to navigate than in previous models. Chipset delivers more PCI Express wiggle room for super-fast storage. Overall performance is better than any other CPU on the market
Save for Extreme Edition models.
Impressive single core performance and multi-core performance
Minimal power consumption with lower operating temperatures
Manages to match the performance of the Core i7-7700K at stock settings
Cheaper than both the 7700K and Ryzen 7 1700
Motherboards
Performance
Power consumption
Overclocking
DDR4 support
Skylake offers improved efficiency and overclocking over Haswell while the new Z170 chipset tops the Z97 with more USB 3.0/PCIe 3.0 lanes
PCIe 3.0 storage support and Intel RST.
Good performance
Overclocks well
Z170 platform offers new features.
The editors didn't like
None that I found
Minimal Upgrade from Haswell
Immature Platform
Not entirely overclocking friendly
Very hot when overclocked
Premium quad core pricing
In single-threaded tasks
Not substantively faster in our testing than previous-generation chips
Requires a new motherboard
Slightly higher TDP than its year-old Haswell “Devil's Canyon” counterpart
You'll need a new motherboard. Only slight performance gains over previous-generation chips in single-threaded tasks
Multi-thread performance is a slight concern considering the price you pay for this CPU
Should You Buy The Intel Core i7 6700K
The Core i76700K is generally no faster than the i74790K
Which will make it difficult to coax purchases out Haswell and Ivy Bridge owners. Availability is rumored to be limited.
Intel states that this is not the full release of the Skylake lineup, which will be happening during IDF in a few days. Looking at the overall performance of the new platform pairing the Core i7 6700K and the Z170 chipset, I can't wait to get more details...
So at the end of the day how did the i7-6700K/Skylake perform? Well on the CPU side of things it performed about how you would expect. It was an overall improvement from the i7-4790K in most tests but a few tests that favor higher clock speeds still had...
Published: 2015-08-06, Author: Paul , review by: hitechlegion.com
Reasonably priced, Overall improved performance, Quick Sync, HyperThreading, Improved HD video performance, Unlocked, Low Power
Immature Platform
Well, I would love to say that I had a pleasurable experience testing the new chipset and processor but the best overall experience I can mention was frustration. I have multiple kits of DDR4 memory so I figured at least one should work since Intel introd...
Overclocking options are easier to navigate than in previous models. Chipset delivers more PCI Express wiggle room for super-fast storage. Overall performance is better than any other CPU on the market, save for Extreme Edition models.
You'll need a new motherboard. Only slight performance gains over previous-generation chips in single-threaded tasks
The biggest draw of the Core i7-6700K, Intel's first sixth-generation CPU, isn't the performance. Rather, it's the extra PCIe lanes that come with the supporting Z170 chipset, which may mean storage that's as fast as the processor...
Published: 2015-08-05, Author: Steve , review by: gamersnexus.net
The biggest advantage of moving to a Skylake / Z170 platform is in memory capabilities, for those who can't afford X99 but may perform tasks that'd benefit from DDR4. Gaming is not one of those tasks (there may actually be slight overhead for gaming). Vid...
I like Skylake, a lot. Outside of the performance and connectivity benefits that it offers, Skylake is the most mature launch platform that I have ever worked with. The Intel Core i7-6700K and i5-6600K and new Z170 motherboards should give Sandy Bridge us...
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Published: 2015-08-05, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
Let's summarize our results with a couple of our famous power-performance scatter plots. The first one is based on a geometric mean of all of our non-gaming application tests, and the second one focuses on our frame-time-based game performance results. A...
Published: 2015-08-05, Author: Marco , review by: hothardware.com
Abstract: Although Intel is holding many of the architectural details regarding its latest Skylake-based, 6th generation Core processors back until the Intel Developers Forum goes down in San Francisco in a couple of weeks, the company is announcing a pair of new p...
Published: 2015-08-05, Author: Ryan , review by: pcper.com
I think it's safe to say that, although Skylake's performance isn't going to make Haswell users jump out of their seats to order immediately, consumer that are on Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge might finally have a line in the sand to step across. The Core i7...
On a strictly enthusiast level, the advantages the Skylake/Z170 platform has over the Haswell/Z97 platform are tough to turn a blind eye to. Our clock for clock testing tells the story of a 10% or better performance increase when the two were compared...