Intel i5 6600K Z170 Skylake CPU Review

Skylake launched with a bang, and this new i5 is no exception. With similar performance to a 4770K, more overclocking features, and a lower TDP, this is a truly compelling buy!

This rather sexy looking beast is Intel’s latest generation (6th to be precise), Skylake CPU. It’s actually the i5-6600K, which means you get 4 cores with no hyperthreading, and 6MB of cache – compared the the i7-6700K’s 8MB of L3 cache. 

This chip is a socket 1151 chip, and as you can see, the slot at the bottoms which is normally occupied with nothing. Also there seems to be a hell of a lot more resistors on the back of the chip now!

I want to make a note of the Z170 platform that this chip is part of. Since this chip won’t fit in a Z97 board, and a Z97 chip won’t fit in this board,  you’ll need to make sure you get the right board and chip – as well as the fact the boards can be either DDR4 or DDR3! The cool thing about the platform though is that it has given the board makes a chance to put the latest and greatest kit on the boards, such as USB 3.1 Type C (now a standard on mid to high-end boards!)

No what sort of review would this be if I didn’t at least pretend to benchmark this! So, to give you a comparison, we did a few synthetic tests between this and it’s predecessor, the 4670K. In NOVA bench, we got a CPU score of 597 for the 6600K, and 505 for the 4670K. A nice improvement right? 

In Cinebench, we see a decent improvement too, with 656 for the 6600K, and a 540 for the 4670K – again, nice bump!

 

Now, unfortunately, we couldn’t get the 4670K to be able to test the games as well, but comparing to our older Pentium G3420 – which I know isn’t quad core, but still proves a point. I was shocked at how much difference these DirectX 11 games had depending on CPU. In the same system (so same GPU, case, cooler, PSU and SSD), we had a 60FPS difference in Grid2! 60! In Bioshock infinite it was 50! That is crazy – and just goes to show how awesome in comparison the 6600K is!

Games	avg	min	max	avg	min	max
	Zotac GTX970 CORE w/ 6600k			Zotac GTX970 CORE w/ G3420
Bioshock	168	130	198	118	80	169
BF4	80	68	101	77	65	94
Crysis 3	n/a	n/a	n/a	59	41	95
Grid 2	140	115	174	80	58	106
Ungine	92	31	191	70	50	95
GTA V	105	83	131	92	25	198
Temp	53			53

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So, overall, if you are looking to build a new PC, you should definitely take a look at this chip! Hence the Gamer approved award!