Intel Core i7-6700K & i5-6600K “Skylake” Processors Review
Rikki Wright / 9 years ago
Test System and Methods
Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to review our test system:
Test System
- Motherboard: MSI Z170A Gaming M7
- CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K and Core i5-6600K
- GPU: NVIDIA GTX 980Ti
- RAM: Crucial Elite 16GB (2x8GB) 2666MHz
- Cooling: Thermaltake Water 3.0 AIO with Gelid GC-Extreme
- Case: Lian Li T80 Test Bench
- Storage Drives: Main storage: Crucial M200 250GB, Test Devices: SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB SSD, Plextor 256GB M6e M.2 SSD and Patriot SuperSonic Magnum 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
- PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W
- Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Test Software
- 3DMark – available here.
- AIDA 64 Engineer – available here.
- Bioshock Infinite – available here.
- Cinebench – available here.
- Compubench – available here.
- CPUID HWMonitor – available here.
- CPU-Z – available here.
- Handbrake – available here.
- Luxmark – available here.
- Metro Last Light – available here.
- Prime95 – available here.
- SiSoft Sandra Engineer – available here.
- Tomb Raider – available here.
- WPrime – available here
All tests are conducted three times and the average taken to use in our charts.
