The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and Threadripper 1920X are very impressive processors that did extremely well in content creation benchmarks that take advantage of having a 16-core, 32-thread processor in the system. The good news is a good number of app...

We recommend the Intel Core i7 6700K over all other currently available processors in the market. At the price point it currently retails at, the 6700K outperforms competing models and manufacturers in several departments. 14nm construction, power optimiz...

PCMark 8: The Home and Creative test suites will be used for the purposes of this review. The ratings displayed for each test suite will be the total score. Geekbench: This benchmark aims to quickly and accurately measure processor and memory performance...

I like Skylake, a lot. Outside of the performance and connectivity benefits that it offers, Skylake is the most mature launch platform that I have ever worked with. The Intel Core i7-6700K and i5-6600K and new Z170 motherboards should give Sandy Bridge us...

The Core i7-6700K reached the market under heavy spectating, after the delay of the fifth generation CPUs. Actually, the “Skylake” (sixth generation) CPUs were launched almost simultaneously with the “Broadwell” (fifth generation) ones, considering that t...

EVGA makes a strong entry into the memory market with another formidable product line. Its High Performance 2800 SuperSC DDR4 Series 16GB kit performs great right out the package, but don't hesitate to kick up the frequency. The performance gains aren't m...

The Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake processor is essentially a smoother, cooler running, and slightly faster version of Devil's Canyon. It features cooler running cores, and DDR4 memory support. The integrated...

In 2015, for the first time in history, Intel had two major launches and one of those is going to be covered today by us. In 2013, Intel had launched their Haswell microarchitecture on the 22nm process node which had served the market up till late 2014. E...

Without any serious pressure from AMD at the high-end, Intel has continued its progression of minor improvements to their microarchitecture. However, of the past few generations, this is the most significant update since Sandy Bridge. CPU performance has...

This review arrives a few days late from the embargo date even though I had the CPU ready for a week before launch. I have only received my first Z170 motherboard the night before the morning embargo, so needless to say,  I would not have had the time to...

Well, I would love to say that I had a pleasurable experience testing the new chipset and processor but the best overall experience I can mention was frustration. I have multiple kits of DDR4 memory so I figured at least one should work since Intel introd...

Intel's Skylake Core I7 6700K has been a wild ride and at times we would look up and dawn was making its first little crack before we realized it. We benchmarked the i7 6700K so hard the bench hit back and we may well need plastic surgery on our gluteus M...

Intel's first 6th-Generation (“Skylake”) CPU delivers a decent performance boost over last year's Devil's Canyon chip, while supporting both DDR3 and DDR4 memory. All good, but the extra PCIe lanes that come with the supporting Z170 chipset may be the bi...

The biggest advantage of moving to a Skylake / Z170 platform is in memory capabilities, for those who can't afford X99 but may perform tasks that'd benefit from DDR4. Gaming is not one of those tasks (there may actually be slight overhead for gaming). Vid...

In an unprecedented move, Intel has launched two desktop processor updates in as many months. June gave us the Broadwell for Desktop update , aka fifth-generation Intel Core Processors, and now here we are with the sixth-generation Intel Core Processors...

There are many things to be impressed about with any new Intel release. Whether it's the energy efficiency of the Devil's Canyon CPUs, the graphical prowess of the Broadwell, or the sheer grunt of the Haswell-E platform, every one has something to get the...

On a strictly enthusiast level, the advantages the Skylake/Z170 platform has over the Haswell/Z97 platform are tough to turn a blind eye to. Our clock for clock testing tells the story of a 10% or better performance increase when the two were compared...

If you're building a brand new PC next week, next month or for the foreseeable future, Skylake is the platform you should be building on—but maybe not for the reasons you think. Intel is launching the i7-6700K ($350) and the i5-6600K ($243) today to much...

I think it's safe to say that, although Skylake's performance isn't going to make Haswell users jump out of their seats to order immediately, consumer that are on Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge might finally have a line in the sand to step across. The Core i7...

The Core i7 6700K is not really revolutionary. It did not need to be either. Its multi-threading prowess would make easy prey of lessor processors. It follows up Broadwell and Haswell-E rather nicely though. Now everyone can enjoy the benefits of DDR4 and...

Intel made its tick-tock in 4 month and launched Broadwell followed by Skylake. The former was just the transition to 14nm while the latter brought a new architecture, support for DDR4 and better overclocking capabilities.Broadwell is similar to Haswell b...

Let's summarize our results with a couple of our famous power-performance scatter plots. The first one is based on a geometric mean of all of our non-gaming application tests, and the second one focuses on our frame-time-based game performance results. A...

Last month we finally got our first look at Intel's latest 14nm technology for desktop computers when we reviewed the Core i7-5775C, codenamed Broadwell. Intel's transition to the 14nm node was difficult and as a result Broadwell processors were delayed t...

Since Skylake is a brand new architecture that means that all the motherboard manufacturers are releasing new exciting motherboards based on the Z170 chipset. This makes it a really exciting time for PC enthusiasts and gives you a lot of choice. Z170 moth...

Today we're pulling the wraps off of the true Devil's Canyon successors, Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K. Our exploration is going to feel a little incomplete t...