I7 6700k with mobo h170
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Ryan_78
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Yea it will work, BUT you are completely wasting the overclocking function of the 6700k. To be able to fully overclock, you need a Z170 board, not an H170. They can OC, but only little if any. If you do not plan to overclock at all. Get a 6700, non k. With a b150 or h170. If you do want better CPU potential, get a 6700k with a z170
I blame Intel for messing this up! IMO the 6700 should also run at 4.0Ghz but with no overclocking, the 6700k should run at 4.0Ghz and be overclockable, as it is. By making the non K CPUs run at higher speeds it is making people buy them whether they intend to overclock or not.
If you can afford a little more money for a Z170 motherboard over a H170 one then that is definitely the way to go. It is cheaper than buying a 6700 then realising you wanted the 6700k further down the line.
If you can afford a little more money for a Z170 motherboard over a H170 one then that is definitely the way to go. It is cheaper than buying a 6700 then realising you wanted the 6700k further down the line.
Ecky
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The clockspeed difference between the 6700 ad 6700K is insignificant (5%), and by lowering the clockspeed a hair, Intel was able to greatly reduce the TDP. The 6700K's clockspeed is well into diminishing returns for 14nm silicon.
I don't think either is a wrong choice, but there's less reason to get a 6700K if you're going with an H170 motherboard.
I don't think either is a wrong choice, but there's less reason to get a 6700K if you're going with an H170 motherboard.
I guess it depends what you are doing with the CPU. If you want to buy an i7 then I assume the original poster is going to be doing more tasks that are multi threaded to take advantage of the hyper threading, if not then buying an i7 is a bit of a waste.
The 4.2ghz turbo boost of the 6700k only applies to single core operations, the other 3 physical cores can only go to 4ghz max speed. The 6700 can only turbo boost 1 core to 4ghz, the others stay at 3.4ghz. IMO that is quite a performance gap between the 6700 and 6700k. The trade off is more energy and more heat.
If you are only doing single threaded operations then you may as well buy an i5 6600 which can turbo boost to 3.9ghz or even an i3 6100 runs at 3.7ghz dual core and those chips are much cheaper.
You're right that you can typically only get the max turbo with a single core in use. But you can still turbo to a lesser degree on multiple cores. Unfortunately Intel doesn't have a turbo boost table for the 6700, but you can look at the table for the 4790 for an idea of what it might look like:
1 or 2 cores: 4 GHz
3 Cores: 3.9 GHz
4 Cores: 3.8 GHz
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005523.html
Edit: I found a table for the 6700 here:http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i7/Intel-Core%20i7-6700.html
6700 can turbo to 3.7 GHz on 4 cores. In other words, the 6700k is 300 MHz (8%) faster on fully threaded loads, and 200 MHz (5%) faster on single threaded loads. At stock clocks.
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