Intel Core i7-6700K & i5-6600K “Skylake” Processors Review

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.