*Official* 6600K & 6700K Owners Experience Thread

Just got my system up and running yesterday!
Very happy this is a nice jump over my Haswell which could only manage 4Ghz. lol




Ran it through the Asus RealBench stress test for 6 hours no crashes, temps under 60C!
Tried for faster bclk but wouldn't post if I pushed past 110Mhz.

Adaptive vCore = 1.26v
Ram = 1.35v
RAM frequency = 2800 MHz 14-14-14-34-1T
Load-line = Level 5
CPU current capability = 110%

 

Set to Adaptive Volts in the BIOS and set both adaptive settings to Auto. That will bring down voltage & temps a LOT!! My i7-6700K at stock clocks will run at ~1.14-1.15v with Adaptive Voltage. With the factory settings and Auto Voltage it jacks it up to 1.26v for some reason. It's perfectly stable at a much lower voltage.

I haven't a clue why the Intel and/or motherboard manufacturers choose such high voltage if you have it at the default Auto setting.

 

Installed d14, everything seems legit... Prime95 55c max, BF3 around 40-47c, gtaV 30-40c. Max peaks that shortly occur won't go past 55-57, so Im quite happy with it. Was going to go for d15, but Id have to wait for a week or so for it.. plus d14 is more than enough for my needs.
Anyway thx very much for your help guys and best of luck with your systems.

 

For a smart comparison can u post some 6700k cinebench score ?

- @ stock (4.2 GHz) (auto oc freq)
- @ 4.4 GHz (4970k's auto oc freq)
- @ max oc

ps: i assume your mb is capable to mantain cpu @stock at max oc frequency (4.2 GHz for 6700k), otherwise set it to 4.2 GHz as stock speed.



can u post the same score of the i5 version too ?


i am a total nob about these cpu sockets (i only had 1366-2011-2011v3), but this could be interesting !

 

Hi guys,

After my recent upgrade and going from p55 and i7 870 to 6700K and asus z170-a and some new RAM I noticed (with 980) that my fps increased greatly. Especially in battlefield 4.

Previously I could ultra everything and and I could put the "texture ?" scale to 110-115 with having around 55 fps.

Now with this processor and and new set up I can up the scale to around 140-150 and still having a better fps.

Is there really so much difference or am I imagining things?

 

BF4 uses a lot of CPU and you have just made a huge upgrade in raw CPU power so this improvement is to be expected.

 

Keep in mind that applying thermal paste is a different story on Skylake. Source and info here.

EDIT: ctrl+f paste, that should make it easier to find.

 

happy 6600K owner here

only bumped it up to 4.2ghz @ 4 cores
but lowered the VID to 1.155v

 

@SaberJ2X

I have the same board as you (Same cpu as well !)
But I cannot seem to find a way to OC my system.
All I have is the automatic performance boost.
How can I OC my system manually ?

Regards,

Durkalina

 

You apply thermal paste to Skylake based processors the same as you would a Sandy Bridge based processor. There is no difference.

 

I find I have one core (core 2) which is way hotter than the rest



Like this - always that core is way hotter

 

Just built a new intel system after using amd for the past 14 years, paired the 6700k with an Asus Maximus VIII Hero motherboard.

 

Hey guys. I just upgraded from a i7 920 to the i7 6700k. I have a corsair h75 water cooler on it and I applied mx4 thermal paste. It's over clocked to 4.5ghz at 1.35v.

I'm having a weird issue with the temps on it as a I monitor them though. It runs stable but the temps are very sporadic. They will idle at 23-26 at one point and then fly up to anywhere between 35-50 for a second. They jump all over the place. The same happens while gaming in GW2 so far. Temps arent consistent as they have a 25 degree spread ranging from 35-60.

Is it possible that the thermal paste needs to be reapplied or just set? Thanks for any responses.

 

I just used the included boost setting in the bios, set the uncore to 4.2Ghz and manually set the voltage

 

I am loving mine! But i do have that random temp jump like few others mentioned. It idles at 28-30 but if i open Chrome, it spikes to like 50-55 and then goes back down.

I am running 4.4Ghz with Evo212 so maybe its not good enough.

I also didnt increase voltage, left it at 1.280 i think. But its been running fine and not a single crash in a week. Would it worth increasing it a little bit, or since its all good i shouldnt worry?

 

There are couple of people here reported the same temp jumping so let's asume its normal. You can probably go up to 1.35v with Skylake so try 4.5-4.6ghz. Just watch out for temps, i dont think 212 evo can handle that much though.

 

I think i should be okay with up to 4.5 with evo, its no good after, but 4.4 is more than enough for now. I will run it for a little longer and upgrade cooler at some point if i need to go higher.

 

Happily running 4.7 on 6700k with 1.29v .

5ghz hwbot prime at 1.38-1.39v.

 

I'm Using an evo 212 on my 6700k overclocked to 4.5ghz and temps are great so the cooler is certainly upto the job.

 

Bought the 6700K from Aria today for £287 due to a limited special offer. Originally I was going to get the 4790K, but at that price the 6700k was a no brainer. Can't get the Mobo & ram until a week on Friday, so it's going to be sitting and staring at me.

My current CPU,Mobo and ram is going to my bro for his 30th birthday in a few weeks, quite the upgrade compared to what he has now, AMD 955be.