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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Wow, was wondering why SST showed up as red for me. Didn't realize bios support was required for it to work.
- mscrivo
- Post #6,271
- Jan 21, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Yeah I noticed that, that's why I need some comparison to go by. There's one failure in there that is particularly worrying. The max SMI latency number.
- mscrivo
- Post #6,202
- Jan 16, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Would anyone who has a completely stable 6700K system be willing to run Intel's BIOS Implementation Test Suite[0] for me so I can compare results? You can see mine here [1]. It's failing for me on 29 tests with all default clock speeds and voltage settings and I want to know if it's something...
- mscrivo
- Post #6,200
- Jan 16, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

AVX bug that I mentioned earlier that can be repro'ed in Prime95 has been confirmed by Intel: "Intel has identified an issue that potentially affects the 6th Gen Intel® Core family of products. This issue only occurs under certain complex workload conditions, like those that may be...
- mscrivo
- Post #6,111
- Jan 6, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Fair enough, the problem sometimes doesn't occur for a week. The thought of installing windows and using it for a few weeks on a mechanical drive scares me :)
- mscrivo
- Post #6,084
- Jan 4, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

It's a brand new Samsung 850 pro that I bought for this build. Who knows, you could be right. Come to think of it, most people in the Tom's thread have a Samsung ssd as their system disk. Unfortunately I don't have a spare ssd to use for testing, I'll see if I can get my hands on one.
- mscrivo
- Post #6,082
- Jan 4, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Yeah they are on the list as supported. Gigabyte support is absolutely useless by the way, they have no clue what they are doing and apparently have no contact with the engineering dept. I do understand, that's why I've been trying to be patient. I've been dealing with this since I built...
- mscrivo
- Post #6,077
- Jan 4, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

I have not, but wouldn't it be strange that voltages would need to be bumped to get stable operation at stock speeds? Regarding latencymon it's showing some really bad numbers on my system. Maybe I should start a new thread about this, but could you give me a few quick pointers on how to...
- mscrivo
- Post #6,074
- Jan 4, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

I'll take a look at all my drivers, thanks for the latencyMon suggestion. I'm regards to voltage, yes many have tried upping it and for some it seems to reduce the frequency of the freezes but no one has been able to get rid of them completely with voltage increases. So yeah it does seem to...
- mscrivo
- Post #6,064
- Jan 3, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Do you let it go to sleep? Or leave it running when you don't use it? I have a friend who built a carbon copy of my system and he never sees it either because he lets it go to sleep. I'm not claiming it affects everyone, but there is a significant number chiming in that seems to make it a...
- mscrivo
- Post #6,062
- Jan 3, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

The prime95 one happens with the newest version as well, just takes longer to happen. And I think you're discounting the freezing problem much too quickly. You have to read the full thread (I know it's long), but essentially, we've all tried 2133MHz, no XMP. The problem is not RAM, at...
- mscrivo
- Post #6,059
- Jan 3, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

I'm surprised no one here has yet talked about the issues people are facing with their new Skylake-S builds (might not be limited to S, but those are the ones people are checking in with so far). I, and many others who've recently built 6700K/6600K (and non K as well) systems have been...
- mscrivo
- Post #6,057
- Jan 3, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Skylake owners thread

Sadly I'm already on the latest bios.
- mscrivo
- Post #96
- Sep 23, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Skylake owners thread

I'm having a strange problem with my newly built system (see sig). It's perfectly stable while in use, but every couple of days or so, I'll come back to the system and it won't wake up. I have it configured to not go to sleep, only the monitors go to sleep after 15 mins. Though I know its...
- mscrivo
- Post #94
- Sep 22, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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6700K In Stock @ Amazon.com

yes, and then received it on Sept 9th.
- mscrivo
- Post #10
- Sep 18, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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6700K In Stock @ Amazon.com

It took them over 10 days before they shipped mine. Seems like they are only getting a very small number of them each week.
- mscrivo
- Post #8
- Sep 18, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

So far it's looking better than Sandy bridge for me. I've gone from a 2600k to a 6700k with very similar coolers and I'm getting idle temps around 28c on the 6700k vs around 36c on the 2600k both at stock speeds. The CPU temps are not much higher than ambient in the case which is awesome...
- mscrivo
- Post #4,845
- Sep 17, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

There are many other things you can do with a PC besides gaming. The upgrade makes total sense to me, even if there was no gain in gaming. The fact that he is seeing improvements is just icing on the cake.
- mscrivo
- Post #4,733
- Sep 7, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

I just got a notification from Amazon on my preorder of the 6700k that says it should arrive on Sept 10th. Slightly off topic ... are Gigabyte boards the only Z170 boards that use Alpine Ridge right now?
- mscrivo
- Post #4,604
- Sep 2, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

i7 6700k in stock at TigerDirect.com without a bundle. Price is a bit painful at 400 though. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9788451
- mscrivo
- Post #4,505
- Aug 31, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Amazon 6700k pre-order has been taken down. It shot up to the #1 best seller in CPU's despite not even being available, in less than a day. That's crazy if you ask me.
- mscrivo
- Post #4,274
- Aug 25, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Well said
- mscrivo
- Post #4,260
- Aug 25, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Interesting, didn't know about that bench in CPU-Z. I just ran it on my 2600k @ 4.2 and got this:
- mscrivo
- Post #4,013
- Aug 19, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Really, so you can find 16GB sticks of ddr3?
- mscrivo
- Post #3,770
- Aug 16, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Really like the power consumption numbers.
- mscrivo
- Post #2,771
- Aug 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

I do overclock, modestly, but ok yeah, if you're talking about stability when overclocking, then I'd agree with you, in that you'll probably have better chances with a good X99 board. All I was trying to say is that stability is not one of the reasons I'd personally look at getting X99 over Z97...
- mscrivo
- Post #2,769
- Aug 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

I know as much as anyone else that Windows installations get slower overtime, given the number of systems I've built and maintain. I should have mentioned that these systems were both formatted and compared around the same time. Still I understand that various things can cause discrepancies...
- mscrivo
- Post #2,754
- Aug 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

What abuse? ... throwing it around the room? Maybe X99 boards we're soldered better or have stability brackets I don't know of that can withstand throwing it around? Seriously though, I don't think X99 platform buys you stability, it buys you higher hardware limits. I have a "mainstream"...
- mscrivo
- Post #2,751
- Aug 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

I don't know, I kind of agree with him. I'm still on a 2600k with a modest overclock of 4.2 and I feel I could use an upgrade. My system feels slow, despite everything else being upgraded. I built a 4790k system for a friend last year and felt quite a difference in just windows performance...
- mscrivo
- Post #2,746
- Aug 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

How exactly do you quantify stability? I'm not sure putting a % on "stability" really makes sense.
- mscrivo
- Post #2,741
- Aug 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Nah, they actually look alright, it's our dollar that is tanking which is the real problem.
- mscrivo
- Post #2,734
- Aug 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Z170 motherboards showing up on newegg canada and many in stock: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=z170&N=100007626%20600530942&isNodeId=1
- mscrivo
- Post #2,731
- Aug 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

The gaming scores being lower than a 4790k are a bit worrying though. Wonder what's up with that given the 9% overall increase at stock clocks in non-gaming scenarios.
- mscrivo
- Post #2,496
- Aug 4, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Pricing for Canada: http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=12201111156&vpn=BX80662I76700K&manufacture=INTEL
- mscrivo
- Post #2,489
- Aug 4, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Not sure I trust Geekbench results all that much. 6700k scores are all over the map for it: https://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=6700k
- mscrivo
- Post #2,334
- Aug 1, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

Why so hostile? Seems like he was just trying to be helpful since you said you really wanted to upgrade.
- mscrivo
- Post #2,274
- Jul 31, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

It's pretty much the same price as the 4790k at pcconnection. Nothing to get worked up about.
- mscrivo
- Post #2,220
- Jul 29, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

yeah looking at those graphs again, it does seem to be a decent improvement. For some reason, I thought that Photoshop score being lower was actually worse.
- mscrivo
- Post #2,209
- Jul 29, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

If those numbers are legit, then Skylake-K better be a darn good overclocker and/or use much less power, otherwise it'll be a massive flop for desktop users.
- mscrivo
- Post #2,200
- Jul 29, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

i5-6400 is 2.7GHz with 3.3GHz turbo within 65W TDP whereas the i5-4670 is 3.4GHz (3.6GHz for mikk) with 3.8GHz turbo within 84W TDP. The fact that the scores are similar means it's quite a large improvement actually.
- mscrivo
- Post #2,140
- Jul 28, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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