New i7 6700k build. Have a look won't you?

[fociz]

It's been 5 years, and long overdue to retire my trusty i7 2600k http://goo.gl/usKLKK down to 2nd monitor duties, although i'm still doing my best to justify the money spent on these new Intel procs, seeing as how Intel's just fine being..Intel.

Anyhoo, recycled a Gtx 970 oc'd@1510/4000 and some old ssd drives to save money. I run tv's as monitors. A mounted 43"Samsung 640D 4k@60hz main & 40" Sony Bravia 1080p secondary.
This new build has surprisingly allowed for some 4k gaming on select titles, which makes it difficult to go back once you get to nuke anti-aliasing from orbit once and for all. The intention that it be a good future platform for Pascal/Polaris GPU's once they hit this summer. It's a decent upgrade, not worth the expense really, but satisfied with it thus far.

Let me know what you think.

https://pchound.com/ZnyS7P/

https://fodiddle.shutterfly.com/pictures/8

 

[Dangman]

My only real big issue with your setup is the PSU: It's a so-so quality PSU at best as per the HardOCP review. If you were doing a budget cheap-o PC, that PSU would be great for it. But considering that your setup is pretty pricey, that PSU just doesn't make sense. I would have gone with an eVGA 750B2 at the lowest or the 750G2 or 750P2 750W PSUs.

 

[defaultluser]

I agree with Danny, and also you can probably save 40 bucks by using slightly slower ram - either 2800 or 3000 speed. You won't notice the difference.

 

[Deleted member 88227]

I agree with Danny, and also you can probably save 40 bucks by using slightly slower ram - either 2800 or 3000 speed. You won't notice the difference.

That's not entirely true anymore.

 

[defaultluser]

That's not entirely true anymore.

Sure it is. There's been a lot of EXCITING data posted about Skylake, but it's mostly been piecemeal: there's one data point with ultra-slow ram, and here's another data point with ultra-fast ram! Hardly useful in determining a trend, nor the "best value," now is it?

So let's have a look at the actual memory performance: DDR4 2133 versus DDR3 1866:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation/7

With the exception of Handbrake, the DDR4 2133 ram is slightly SLOWER than DDR3 1866, which puts performance near DDR3 1600. And we know how much DDR3 1600 has been choking Haswell CPUs.

So the reason we're seeing such an impressive improvement in these "take just two fucking data points and be lazy" reviews is because we're starting out CASTRATING the processor with the DDR4 2133 speeds.

So YES, when you increase the speed 25% to 2666, the performance looks a whole lot better!

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-core-i3-6100-review

Much the same as you get a shit load better performance when you go from castrating Haswell with DDR3 1333 to ANYTHING FASTER:

http://www.techspot.com/review/1089-fallout-4-benchmarks/page6.html

But somebody actually tested this shit with more than one data-point,. and guess what? In resource-intensive FSX, the benefits start to fall-off after DDR4 3000:

http://www.avsim.com/topic/477810-performance-of-6700k-skylake-and-high-speed-ddr4-ram/

See the trends here? When you only have two points, then your line always points skyward. There's never any sign of falloff in performance improvement when you only have a line!

So yeah, you can drop as much cash as you want on the super-fast ram, but we both know the performance improvement over DDR4 2800 or 3000 is minuscule. But we'd be able to better-characterize how small it is if soebody actualoly did a proper review (outside of some guy on a forum)

 

[KazeoHin]

My only real big issue with your setup is the PSU: It's a so-so quality PSU at best as per the HardOCP review. If you were doing a budget cheap-o PC, that PSU would be great for it. But considering that your setup is pretty pricey, that PSU just doesn't make sense. I would have gone with an eVGA 750B2 at the lowest or the 750G2 or 750P2 750W PSUs.

Kinda disagree, the Corsair RM series are pretty solid, and passed the [H] testing from what I remember, which is not an easy thing to do. not to mention corsair is a damn good brand when it comes to PSUs and have a pretty low failure rate. I personally think the RM750 is the perfect choice for this build.

Edit: I just re-read the review and I was mistaken. The RM750 failed the tests. I was thinking of the AX series PSU!

 

[fociz]

Thanks for the heads up.

So far i haven't had any hiccups with the psu under a 4.5ghz overclock. I will say the bios in these new z170 boards is hot garbage. Not impressed at all with Gigabyte or Asus thus far.

It's stable at 4.5ghz w/mem at rated 3200mhz with correct timings, but all had to be set manually with crossed fingers and lambs blood on the floor with lit candles.. The xmp profile is broken in every beta bios i've tried, along with the blck on these boards not giving you an inch past 100 without bsod's.

I'll have to keep my fingers crossed on the psu cause it's not going back at this point.

 

[Whach]

I can't comment on Gigabyte, but the latest Asus Bios realeases made my overclock unstable at lower Vcore settings. I went back a few iterations to v1202 and all was well again. I suppose the adage "if it isn't broken...." applies for me. The latest bios are supposed to have introduced new microcode to accommodate the Skylake precision bug - or something to that effect.

Anyway, I'm stable at 4.6 & 4.7 with XMP enabled and correct with that exact G.skill kit.

 

[fociz]

I can't comment on Gigabyte, but the latest Asus Bios realeases made my overclock unstable at lower Vcore settings. I went back a few iterations to v1202 and all was well again. I suppose the adage "if it isn't broken...." applies for me. The latest bios are supposed to have introduced new microcode to accommodate the Skylake precision bug - or something to that effect.

Anyway, I'm stable at 4.6 & 4.7 with XMP enabled and correct with that exact G.skill kit.

Wurd.