{"id":78883,"date":"2015-07-22T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=78883"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T12:04:48","slug":"i7-6700k-reaches-6-5-ghz-with-liquid-nitrogen-crushes-i7-4790k-in-synthetic-benchmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/78883-i7-6700k-reaches-6-5-ghz-with-liquid-nitrogen-crushes-i7-4790k-in-synthetic-benchmarks","title":{"rendered":"i7-6700K reaches 6.5 GHz with liquid nitrogen: crushes i7-4790K in synthetic benchmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there anything that Intel\u2019s all-new Skylake microarchitecture can\u2019t do? And in particular, Intel\u2019s flagship CPU, the Core i7-6700K.<\/p>\n

Not only is the i7-6700K \u201cSkylake\u201d up to 29% faster than the i7-4790K \u201cDevil\u2019s Canyon\u201d<\/a> at its stock 4.0 GHz, but it\u2019s capable of a 5.2 GHz overclock on air cooling alone, and with a mild 1.35V.<\/p>\n

And if you thought that was impressive, which it is, wait until you see what can be done with liquid nitrogen.<\/p>\n

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\"Intel<\/a>

Intel Core i7-6700K 6.5GHz overclock – CpuZ<\/p><\/div>\n

Overclocker and computer enthusiast PLG managed to push the i7-6700K all the way up to 6.5 GHz, or 6531.72 MHz<\/a> to be precise.<\/p>\n

To achieve that, PLG boosted the voltage to 2.032V and used liquid nitrogen for cooling. For the moment, 6.5 GHz is the current record for Skylake processors and proof of what the chips can do.<\/p>\n

According to Benchmark.pl<\/a>, PLG used an MSI Gaming Z170 motherboard and a single DDR4 RAM module. That module, by the way, reached an immense 4287 MHz.<\/p>\n

Not that you\u2019ll ever need to overclock the i7-6700K; it\u2019s faster than pretty much everything else at, well, much everything.<\/p>\n

\"Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Core-i7-4790K_CPUz\"<\/a>

Intel Core i7-6700K vs. Core i7-4790K – CPUz<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Leaked benchmarks from a few Chinese sources have revealed that the Core i7-6700K, when used in conjunction with MSI\u2019s Z170 Gaming Pro\u00a0motherboard (although we imagine any motherboard will do), is quite a bit faster than the i7-4970K it was pitted against in virtually every synthetic benchmark scenario.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Intel Core i7-6700K vs Core i7-4790K Performance Benchmarks<\/p><\/div>\n

And now the discrete GPU benchmarks:<\/p>\n

\"Intel<\/a>

Intel Core i7-6700K vs Core i7-4790K Discrete GPU Benchmarks<\/p><\/div>\n

Perhaps most interesting of all is how much cooler the new Skylake CPU runs.<\/p>\n

Whereas its Devil\u2019s Canyon counterpart hit temperatures of around 90C, the newer, shinier CPU managed a cool 55-65C. That makes a world of difference.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that\u2019s why the 4970K\u2019s microarchitecture was named \u201cDevil\u2019s\u201d Canyon.<\/p>\n

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

In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Microsoft intends Windows 10 to last until 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Get your GTA V to look near-photorealistic<\/a><\/p>\n

NVIDIA to bundle Metal Gear Solid V with GeForce GPUs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intel on track to continue its world domination. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":78889,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14338,14887,14498,12465,14744,1085,1727,14889,1969,14863,11568],"class_list":["post-78883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-benchmark","tag-core-i7-4790k","tag-core-i7-6700k","tag-cpu","tag-devils-canyon","tag-hardware-2","tag-intel","tag-liquid-nitrogen","tag-news-2","tag-overclock","tag-skylake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78883","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=78883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}