New to intel

[[Paragon]]

So I haven't owned an intel chipset since my pentium classic 60mhz back in the day and I've made the jump over with the release of skylake.

I just ordered the i5-6600k, asus z170-a and 16gb of ballistix ddr4 2666. I have a couple of questions.

Firstly, will a corsair h55 be enough cooling to run that i5 with a very slight overclock? I'm only looking at hitting 4ghz, don't really need much beyond that. In the future I could switch out to a different cooler but this thing is damn near brand new so I want to get some use out if it.

Second, are there any peculiarities with the bios or setup versus AMD? Anything I should be aware of? Or, is it as I'm assuming just as easy to get going. Break it down barney style for me.

It feels weird to be moving away from AMD, but their offerings lately have been pretty meh.

 

[kirbyrj]

Your H55 should be fine. 4Ghz should be a simple matter of setting the multiplier to 40. Maybe a slight bump in vcore.

Since you're not looking at a big OC, I don't know if you'd have to mess around with a lot of other bios settings.

 

[Darksword]

If you've been using it to cool your FX-8320 (125W) it should be more than fine for the i5-6600K (95W).

n00b question, but does the H55 fit the 1151 socket?

 

[MrGreg62]

If you've been using it to cool your FX-8320 (125W) it should be more than fine for the i5-6600K (95W).

n00b question, but does the H55 fit the 1151 socket?

All 115x sockets are the same as far as cooler mounting goes.

 

[Araxie]

If you've been using it to cool your FX-8320 (125W) it should be more than fine for the i5-6600K (95W).

n00b question, but does the H55 fit the 1151 socket?

Also take into consideration the 95W of the skylake systems are due the extra power and heat added when the iGPU are used. but yes for a H55 should be extremely easy to cool any actual i5 even when overclocked.

 

[Criticalhitkoala]

You probably already know but the bracket is different from your and to Intel mount. Hopefully you've kept your parts from the install. God knows I tossed my h110i amd parts months ago somewhere I can never probably find.

 

[[Paragon]]

You probably already know but the bracket is different from your and to Intel mount. Hopefully you've kept your parts from the install. God knows I tossed my h110i amd parts months ago somewhere I can never probably find.

Yeah I kept them, did not however keep the intel mounting kit for my hyper 212, which I guess isn't really an issue but I might have wanted to play around with air cooling. Whoopsy, then again when I bought it I didn't figure I was going to switch to intel.

 

[[Paragon]]

Just got the system put together, ran the AI suite and it clocked itself to 4.5ghz. Seems to be running stable so far, though I haven't done any gaming with it yet.

 

[Ryankirsch13]

If you already have that Corsair H55, then yes, it will easily cool an over clocked 6600k without breaking a sweat. If you don't have it yet, a good air cooler would math it and more than likely be more quiet. But it sounds as though you already own the H55.

 

[[Paragon]]

If you already have that Corsair H55, then yes, it will easily cool an over clocked 6600k without breaking a sweat. If you don't have it yet, a good air cooler would math it and more than likely be more quiet. But it sounds as though you already own the H55.

Yup just transferred the h55 over from the AMD build this replaced, its pretty quiet unless its at 100%. Just played a bit of mad max and Armored Warfare (built on the Cry3 engine) at 4.5ghz tops out at around 46C. We will see what happens after a several hours long gaming binge.