This is a post for everyone to give their opinions about the new skylake processers. For me, I like how they upgraded the ram compatability from ddr3 to ddr4 and how the voltage regulator is on the motherboard instead of the processer so less heat and better overclocking.
I like that the base clock for the i7 is at 4GHz. but the downside is that it takes 91W. Cant wait to see the benchmarks.
VRMs were always on the board... I'm not expecting too much from them, probably will get 5-10% better performance over Haswell. But the new boxes look great
Too bad they overclock like haswell, not that great... Skylakes Engineering samples are super binned though... Like 5.5GHz on a i7 at 1.5-1.56v... Then the consumer models are nowhere near the ability to overclock like the Engineering Samples do. :/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation Mmmm, having the 4790K at 330$ and the 5820K at 400$ makes me think a lot about it...
I find the X99/5820K to be a much better deal. Esp if you overclock. I run my 5820K on 4.5Ghz 1.220V for daily use, and ramp it up to 4.9Ghz 1.390V for benchmarks.
It's $150 more than the 6600K, not really worth the money for gaming. If you're going for the 6700K though, sure, there's a bigger performance gap between 6-core i7 and quad-core i7 than between the latter and i5.
