Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Intel Core i7 6800k – Review & Overclocked Performance”.
Hey, what’s up everyone how’s it going. This is waj hope you guys are all doing well and in this article we’re going to be talking about the brand new intel core i7 6800k. This is part of the new intel, broadwell e family of processors, and it comes at the very bottom end of the spectrum, both when it comes to overall specifications of being a six core with 12 threads and at the price point that’s most competitive now, in terms Of overall features, we have a 15 megabytes of level 3 cache the core clock. Frequency is a 3.4 gigahertz and it can turbo up to 3.8 gigahertz, but it has a fully unlocked multiplier and we’re definitely going to be doing some overclocking comparison to see what the performance is like compared to stock frequencies. Of course, we’re using the same socket. Lga 2011-3 and we’re actually using the brand new gigabyte x99, a designer lx a motherboard. This is a board specifically designed for the new broadwell e lineup of intel processors and we’re going to have a full, in-depth review of this board.
You can check that out in the description down below some of you guys who are wondering what the difference between the 6800k is compared to the other cpus in this broadwell e lineup. You can see that there’s a chart over here. Basically, we have a six core chip compared to some of the other processors which are eight and ten cores. We also all have lower uh frequency compared to the 6850k. Additionally, we only have 28 lanes of pci express compared to the other processors which have 40 lanes. Of course, the big appeal of the 6800k will certainly be it’s a price point.
You can probably pick these things up for around the low 400 dollar mark, which is definitely very competitive compared to the other processors. Who’S, definitely going to get your foot in the door of building a pretty powerful broadwell ebay systems without completely breaking the bank. Now, in terms of the overclocking experience, i we managed to actually push the cpu up to 4.5 gigahertz, with the voltage set to just under 1.5 volts and it’s pretty stable. The temperature does get pretty high based on prime 95 after 45 minutes.
You can see that it hit about 86 degrees, a c compared to 58 degrees c, when you’re, just using the stock frequency and in terms of cooler. We use the master liquid pro 240, which is a pretty decent closed loop, water cooling system and in terms of the overall power consumption during the gta 5 benchmark, uh the maximum power consumption just on the cpu hit about a 60 watts on the stock configuration and When you overclock it, it does consume quite a lot more power at 115 watts and when you pin the cpu at a 100 load on prime 95 at the stock configuration, the cpu pulls just under 100 watts based on our measurement and the power consumption does definitely Go up drastically when you’re overclocking it as you can see at 179 watts. Now, let’s actually talk about the performance of results between the stock and overclock settings. First, taking a look at geekbench 3, which is going to isolate our single core and our multi-core performance and, as you can see, right now, pretty big difference between the stock frequencies and the overclock setting set to about 4.5 gigahertz uh, both on the multi-core and on The single core perspective and a same result kind of goes for cinebench r15.
You can see that we get uh just over a thousand points on the stock frequency about 3.4 to 3.8 gigahertz and when we overclock to 4.5 gigahertz. We get 1361 points based on this test. Furthermore, for people that are going to use this processor for a multimedia applications such as after effects, i basically render out the same project on both uh, the stock and overclock settings, and i got about 14 performance bump on the overclock. As you can see over here.
The render took just a couple of seconds faster same thing goes for rendering out 4k video in premiere pro. My project export time was around 2 minutes 18 seconds on the overclock side versus 2 minutes 32 seconds on stock frequencies, but really on that guys, that’s really just a quick preview of what the 6800k is capable of. I’M sure there’s going to be a lot of people making new systems based around this cpu, especially at this price point.
I think it’s going to be a pretty popular system for both for people that like to do a lot of multimedia based applications as well as gaming. The big question will be: is this worth getting over the 6700k, which may only have four physical cores, but could give you an edge up when it comes to specific gaming performance, because each of those cores are clocked quite a lot faster, especially if you’re going to Overclock, so we’re going to have that exact video coming up very, very soon check out the link in the description if it’s not out already but other than that guys. That’S really it give us a thumbs up if you like this video and thanks for watching, take care.
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