Do you mean the 7600K ?
The 6600K is a Skylake chip.
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I don't recommend any of them yet.
I like to wait a month or so until some good solid reviews from reputable sites (and customers) begin to appear.
As a side note, I do wish they'd all stop adding those gaudy plastic shrouds all over the motherboards. Most of them are just ugly. -_-
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No point in buying the K variant, nothing uses it, but it's your choice :)
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He likely wants a K series CPU so he can overclock it (non-K Intel CPUs can't be overclocked, except using certain older BIOS on Skylake motherboards).
"nothing uses it" , what do you mean by that?
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Most games require good GPUs, not overclocked CPUs, that's why.
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While you wont see an FPS increase, better CPU will give you a more smoother experience in games.
Basically it affects frame times if you see them individually.
And OP has not mentioned that he only wants to do gaming on it. He could want to do some productivity on it. More CPU is also better for multitasking.
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From current benchmarks Kaby Lake is scoring almost identical to Skylake, which scores almost identical to Haswell, which scores almost identical to Ivy Bridge. See where I'm going here? >_<
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Sadly, Sandy-Bridge was the last big jump in performance.
I upgraded from my 2500K more of out habit than necessity ...
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Same here, I upgraded from a 2600K to a 6700K expecting a decent jump in performance, in reality all I got was DDR4 and USB-C. >_<
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Yep, 6700K here as well, and it doesn't overclock nearly as well.
4.8GHz on my 6700 vs 5.0 stable and 5.3 highest on my 2500.
Supposedly Kaby Lake overclocks a little better, but that's really all it offers.
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Skylake seems to idle a lot cooler than my old Sandy Bridge, but heats up really quickly when overclocking. Maybe it's the crappy closed loop I bought this time. (I had a custom loop with my 2600k). I'm hitting 75 / 80c at just 4.5ghz. I could get my 2600k to 5ghz before I hit those temps.
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Admittedly, I got a "cherry" of a 2500K, and since I'm running both on basically the same loop (different water-blocks is all), I've definitely noticed Skylake runs a bit higher temps when overlocked, and can't take nearly as much voltage.
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Was reading this article just now and was reminded of this discussion.
7700K hits 7GHz.
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That's some crazy sub-zero overclocking O.o It's nice to hear that Kaby Lake Is a good overclocker. 5ghz on air is pretty impressive, wish I'd of waited before jumping on the Skylake bandwagon now! >_<
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Haha, they'll be hitting 8GHz in a couple years. I think you're good til then. :P
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And this is going to keep working like this, until AMD presents some decent competition or AMD/Intel find how to lower temperatures
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None yet ... Skylake motherboards used to be a shitfest-nightmare when they hit the market ... might be due to DDR4 issues or just because of lousy debugged final cpu's (Early Access Hardware). I'd wait to see if AMD Ryzen can deliver or not, as that could change the prices a bit, even picking up Skylake over Kaby would also be an option if its a good chunk cheaper that is.
At the very best, it’s a refresh of Skylake and acts as a hold-over until Cannonlake is released in 2017.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/intels-kaby-lake-cpu-good-bad-meh/
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From all the reviews i've seen, i would pickup a Gigabyte Z270X Gaming 7. Best bang for your buck.
This mobo is complete, future proof and has great performance overall.
Other than that, you should give more details about your budget and what this config is oriented for ?
If all you do on your PC is gaming then a 7600K is the right choice IMO. 7700K (the one i'm getting myself) if you have the budget and want extra performance with the use of Hyperthreading.
A lot of people are going to recommand you to get a Ryzen CPU instead. The thruth is that we don't know yet.
I would say wait until March if you're not in a hurry and see what happens with the new AMD's CPU. But most likely Ryzen will be for people doing heavy work on their PC. At the moment games benefit more from higher clock speed than having more cores, thus Kaby Lake make more sense for a gaming oriented build. Still, you better wait March and some legit reviews.
Also one last thing, i've noticed the price differences EU vs NA. As usual we are getting screwed in EU.
7700K vs 6700K on Amazon.com = 7$ more than Skylake.
On Amazon.de 46€ more than Skylake and Amazon.fr 32€ higher than Skylake.
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I strongly suggest you wait for AMD to release its new Ryzen line of CPUs (should be within the next 3 months, but probably around 2). It seems they would have very good performance and would probably be more affordable than Intel. Even if you don't want to go AMD, this should bring some much needed movement in the CPU market and would likely force Intel to lower its prices a little.
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+1.
Stop fanboyism, wait and see which is better on benchmarks.
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With the release of the Kaby Lake CPU's and the new Mobo's.
I'm going to be upgrading my computer in the next month or 2, if I can.
I'm looking at going with the Kaby Lake i5-7600k CPU.
What Mobo would you recommend?
I will also have to buy some new Ram as well.
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