{"id":78829,"date":"2015-07-21T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=78829"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:28:09","slug":"intels-core-i7-6700k-skylake-overclocked-to-5-2-ghz-with-air-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/78829-intels-core-i7-6700k-skylake-overclocked-to-5-2-ghz-with-air-cooling","title":{"rendered":"Intel\u2019s Core i7-6700K \u201cSkylake\u201d overclocked to 5.2 GHz with air cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intel\u2019s Core i7-6700K \u201cSkylake\u201d CPU was always going to be impressive. It\u2019s hard to expect anything less from a CPU that runs at 4.0 GHz out of the box and that packs 8mb of cache.<\/p>\n

\u201cSounds a lot like the i7-4790K,\u201d we hear you saying. All things being equal, however, the i7-6700K is more equal than the other.<\/p>\n

If Skylake\u2019s architecture has anything to say about it, the architecture boasts some substantial improvements. According to early tests, in fact, the newer Skylake CPU is up to 29% faster than its Devil\u2019s Canyon compatriot in certain scenarios<\/a>, and is generally faster everywhere else.<\/p>\n

Impressed? \u201cNot yet,\u201d you say. Then take a look at this:<\/p>\n

\"Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Overclock<\/a>

Intel Core i7-6700K 5.2 GHz Overclock – CpuZ<\/p><\/div>\n

That, friends, is an i7-6700K at 5.2 GHz, and it was achieved on air cooling. No matter who you are, that\u2019s one heck of an overclock.<\/p>\n

You can thank HKEPC<\/a>, and their Chief-Reporter Lam Chu-Kui, for the overclock on Intel\u2019s new consumer-grade flagship CPU.<\/p>\n

Lam Chu-Kui was apparently able to achieve that overclock with just 1.35V; keep in mind that the i7-4790K needed a voltage of 1.5 \u2013 1.52V before it would reach that same 5.2 GHz.<\/p>\n

That means a lower, more manageable temperature, a more stable CPU and, generally, more CPUs that should readily reach that mark.<\/p>\n

Intel\u2019s i7-6700K as well as the i5-6600K will be shown off at Gamescom<\/a>, come August 5th<\/sup> \u2013 we can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n

We just hope the i5 variant is just as capable. And think what Kaby Lake<\/a>, Intel’s next 14nm CPU family, will be capable come their release.<\/p>\n

Source: WCCF Tech<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Intel delay their next-gen 10nm chips: Moore\u2019s Law shaky at best<\/a><\/p>\n

Intel\u2019s Core i7-6700k \u2018Skylake\u2019 up to 29% faster than the i7-4790k \u2018Devil\u2019s Canyon\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Intel\u2019s Skylake Core i5-6600K and Core i7-6700k will debut at Gamescom 2015<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And with a pretty minor voltage increase at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":78845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10754,12465,14744,1085,13948,14861,1727,14798,1969,14863,15397,11568],"class_list":["post-78829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-air-cooling","tag-cpu","tag-devils-canyon","tag-hardware-2","tag-i7-4790k","tag-i7-6700k","tag-intel","tag-kaby-lake","tag-news-2","tag-overclock","tag-pc","tag-skylake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}