Note: my X99 board misreports CPU power consumption. I measured total system consumption at the wall as 215w (4.3GHz) during Cinebench, compared to 272w from the preceding i7-5930K (4.5GHz)
To be honest, I expected a little more from this processor. I'm using an i7 3770K and I'm watching your videos to see what's best for me to replace it with in the near future. It seems to me that those old Xeons, which I adore for the price of performance, are losing a battle with newer processors that I can buy in a store, with a warranty at a decent price... ;-)
You actually have a pretty good 6800K. Broadwell-E typically topped out around 4.1-4.2 GHz, with the high quality samples hitting 4.3GHz. It’s why when Broadwell-E first launched there were a lot of recommendations to just get Haswell-E and overclock it to 4.5-4.7GHz.
I got one of those eBay extreme edition 6950Xs and ive had it sitting stable at 4.4 for almost a year. My old 6800k it replaced also was able to hit 4.4, but it usually ran about 4.0 due to the limited Alienware Area-51 board it was sitting in.
interesting i didnt know this, i was given a 6850K in a board by a friend to replace my 4790K, i immediately OCd it to 4.3ghz barely touching voltage to get to where my 4790K was and never had issues. didnt know this was a kinda rare result lmao does make me wonder how high i could push it honestly.
@@Moclipz Actually never saw dips in multiplayer games, maybe i am less sensitive to dips than the average gamer (haven't run any benchmark for dips and previous pc was old junk).
@@Moclipz i also have the exact same setup and can run league and pubg fine at nearly everything max graphics. id look into new thermal paste had this issue in the past or perhaps need more ram/ its not running dual channel
Yup, still using the exact same setup as a professional video editor. Although this 5960x is looking nice, as well as 3060rtx and probably additional 32Gb of RAM.. you know, just to future proof it a bit more. :)
Im pretty sure that ever since core 2 we were at a point where how fast you could get data to the cpu was the main limiter of performance. Depends on the workload of course, linear workloads really got crushed with modern branch predicition.
@@xentiment6581yeah I gotta agree we went from 1333 mhz ddr3 to 4200mhz ddr4 and from pcie 2 with .5 gbs per lane to pcie 3 1gbs huge gains in data transfer between the cpu storage and gpu
4,3Ghz overclock with DDR4-3200Mhz is normal. I have i7-6950x and my overclock is set in the bios but works only after set Windows 10 in sleep mode. >Haswell-E with 4,5 Ghz prime95 AVX2 is really hot|power hungry or not stable with high overclocked Haswell-E. Also there is no AVX-offset for overclocking like for Haswell-E. There are older high core count Xeons (Haswell-E, v3 10-18 cores) which are cheap and you use hacks for boost or ReBar. But the are slower in games as the consumer counter part i7-5820k etc., because of the slower clock. I get my Xeon 2696v3 for ~90 euros. And as always, great video :3
I’m always super interested in these, but it’s so obvious just a new budget friendly cpu is always better with how much tech advancement has occurred in the time since. Great content.
👍🏆 Great content Iceberg Tech! The 9600k , 9700k and 9900k were a interesting generation. A 6 core i5 with no HT. An 8 core i7 with with no HT. The first i9. If I had not wimped out and bought a 9900k instead of a 9700k, I probably still have it and would have waited longer than the 13700k to upgrade. Live and learn.
Seems I made good buying decisions back in 2016/2017 with this CPU and the 1080ti :D I've since upgraded to the 6950x(got it cheap and sold the 6800k) and I can't really say I'm looking into upgrading anytime soon.
i have a 2nd workstation for video edition... Davinci Resolve 18.5 with proxys for 4K 30fps.. some clips 4K 60fps even 120fps.. (proxys) ...with RTX 3070, 32GB RAM DDR4 1600, RAID 0 SSD´s, mobo Asus X99 A-II, one NVMe Samsung 950 PRO for OS.. all these hardware with a Core i7 6850K ...works well, not problems, normal video edition not speed but works so well!! ...on my work have Photoshop, Capture One both with RAW files.. Topaz Sharpen IA... 7zip... Corel Draw 2024, Acrobat DC Pro, Luminar Neo, Movavi Converter.. really.. no problem.. works well!!
its not really worth it is it ? you can get Ryzen r5 5600 for that price in certain locations which will be still better choice overall besides like multi core workloads only,for 200 you can get 5700x which is actually even as good in multi core raw performance even though it has 2cores less
@@w33mik62 yeah so to start with for memory you want to go to your training settings and tell it to use smart mode it means it won't boot unless all channels are trained so you don't drop ram channels, with a 6950x you can push them pretty hard, you want to just take it slow 1.35v might get you 4.5 but if you're temp are low then 1.45v is fine, you want to get the ring as High as you can and tune the ram down for getting that lower latency if you have a way I can pm or discord I can send photos a that as I daily a x99 Asus board
@@w33mik62 also max out all your current limits and switching frequency for the vrm and set all phases active you want to set vccin around 1.95 to 2v it helps, as for ram well that depends on your stick and memory controller 1.5v is fine on these but you will need to play with vccsa keep that under 1.25v I personlly use under 1v as that got me the best stability but ever chip and board are different and you want to set vccio as th bios sets that way too high, now for ram settings that gets a little hard to judge and you can find you need more dram voltage to get the sticks to boot but will be rock solid with much less voltage so you can set for a boot vtage 1.65v for boot and then a running vtage of 1.50 1.52, I would start with 3200mhz and take it from there you might want to set some loose timings till you see what speed your chip can do say 21 23 23 56 but it's a balancing act on what you can get stable but it is worth putting sometime into tuning the ram, the ring you won't get alot put of it I'd have to check but 3.5 I think should be doable at around 1.35v cache
Originally had a 6800k on a ROG X99 Edition 10 Board with a 980ti I bought used. It wouldn't overclock that well and has fewer lanes then it's bigger brothers. I upgraded to a 6850k and a 1080ti, then a 6900k and two ROG 1080ti's in Vertical SLI. Still have two 6800k's in my inventory. No problems, even running with 64G of memory. I'm keeping the Build, as it's in a Helios Case, but have put together a ROG X299 / 9900X / 64g / ROG 2080ti Build. Gotta love the look of 8 sticks of Ram flanking the CPU. 😍
I bought one new back in 2016 together with a X99 Ultra Gaming Board. Mine never clocked higher than that either regardless of what i did to it. Still have it, though i sold the motherboard for nearly full retail price again - 5 years later. Talk about good value. Cannot say the same about the CPU which was basically worthless after those 5 years and lost 90% of it´s value.
Thank you for this. I personally run 5 cores at 4.2 and the best core at 4.4. Anything above 4.3 takes too many volts for me. 4.5 is possible but not stable. I also use the Asus X99A-II.
Asus released a bios update to fix the windows security update breaking overclocking for broadwell e back in 2019. I still had the bios on flash drive I found recently. Was still dumb that OC was broken for my i7 6800k for about 2ish years lol
Been running a 6800k since 2016. Built the system about a month after it came out and made a point of getting it over a 6700k build with the goal of it lasting me at least 6 years. Here I am now only change to the system I have made was upgrading the 1070 to a 1080 ti. Honestly only in the last year or so have I noticed the CPU start to show it's age so I decided to see how far I can push an OC. can run a stable OC at 4.3ghz which really brought the life back into the CPU. Lets just say I already sure as hell got my money's worth but probably still wont upgrade for a little while longer.
I like this video 💪 for Esport games cpu like this is still all you need imo. Power consumption is likely pretty high tho ? My 7900 can score 29k in cinebench 23 while Max power draw is 130w and im super happy with that.. while gaming is somewhere around 40-75 usually going up to 90 in very few games i play. Ryzen 5600 non x would be my recommendation nowdays for "budget" builds. Its so cheap and great imo
Still rockin a 6950x here. Hit 4.8ghz all 10 cores, on air (conditioner, shhhhh, yeah it's a cheat) With headroom to go higher, one problem cropped up though, the whole house got down to 50f (10c) which in turn shut the central air down, 50f is as low as I can set it.. lol, got cold burrrrrr.. So as a result, didn't try to take the chip any higher than 4.8ghz after that..
@@harrywilson7980 did that back in the spring of 2018, don't really remember exact settings, but didn't go too crazy with the voltages.. Someone (on ln2) actually hit aprox 5.5ghz with a 6950x. Yes it was very stable until the central air kicked off..
@@us249 yes, in the spring/summer/fall. All you really need to do is have AC running in the room, and you'd be cooling your PC with an AC unit. Useage of AC units has a long history of cooling electronics. However, while testing. I just put the PC on the floor in front of the duct, and make a makeshift boot so that all the air coming through the duct has to flow through the PC. I run rackmount cases (horizontal) which does make creating a air tight seal easier than using a tower case. Though can still be done. PC basically becomes part of the ductwork. That same ductwork becomes a heat source in the winter months. Normal useage of the machine, it only has a slight overclock, running all cores at its stock turbo speed of 3.5ghz. Needless to say. Attempting to run at 4.8ghz as a daily driver, I wouldn't still be rockin a 6950x
The 6800K was actually my first desktop cpu since I only bought laptops before that. Most of them including mine capped out at 4.3ghz. I only "upgraded" from that cpu to a 2700x thanks to Asus x99 boards having an infamous bug that kills cpus along with the board itself in some cases. My 2700x was definitely noticeably worse in gaming though.
ryzen was only okay on am4. the only cpu in that socket that REALLY surprised me was the 5800x3d, which is my current cpu. that thing made more difference in games on its own that the cumulative progress from zen1 to zen 3. heck, it made more difference than going from a 2500k, to a 2700x, to a 5600x. it nearly doubled my underwhelming 5600x in cpu bound games.
@@GraveUypo yeah well price/performance here in SVK is great on theese 5xxx chips i got mine 5600 for 145€ and bought a35 cooler oced to 4.8Ghz stable it is pretty good for its price 660 cpu z single core over 5000 multicore for 145+30€ cooler so i am happy with that it is pretty good for some video editing and encoding too way better than 2700x even though it has 2 core less it actually matched in some tests stock ryzen 7 3700,overall for the price they are best where i live i would otherwise go for 13th or 12th gen i5 from intel most likely but they do cost way more i think i5 12400f is around 180€ so that is more than 20% price difference that is just not worth it for me. I might upgrade later to 8 core but i def do not need more than 6 cores right now i only utilize them fully while encoding videos or editing
@@turtleneck369 Yes, but it was underwhelming for me since my 5800x bin was horrible and never boosted past 4.5ghz all core, but my 2700x was a golden sample that did 4.45ghz all core. I noticed a bigger uplift going from my 5800x to my old 12700k than going from the 2700x to the 5800x.
YES, I have always had issues over clocking my 6800k as well! It keeps resetting and I'd have to OC it every start up 😥😥😥😥 Really enjoyed the pacing of this video by the way, so thank you!
your OC reverted in Windows due to microcode issues. also, 4.5GHz is not possible to achieve on most Broadwell-E chips. 4.3 or at most 4.4, see Silicon Lottery historical binning data
No not a micro code issue just a gigabyte having a terrible settings layout you have to set the.clocks two or three times in the bios for it to take properly and then sometimes have to force which turbo boost mode you want to use cause the bios is sometimes stupid
Yet another surprising, interesting, high quality video! With these videos you are really spoiling us Mr Ambassador I know you probably won't do this any time soon, but I do look forward to the day that you get your mitts on a Ryzen 7 5800X3D to show what the AM4 platform tops out at compared to the budget Ryzen 5 5600/5600x and the rest of the stack.
Having used a xeon w3690 since 2012 these 6th gen cpus were nothing impressive. Thank god for amd ryzen which forced intel to actually get off their azzes and offer something new and better.
I think my 6800k computer finally died today, it has been acting strange the past few days and trying to boot into safe mode to troubleshoot was it's final straw now it won't even post.
I love your videos, and your general layout if things. However my biggest criticism is in most of your videos you are testing CPUs, but at 1440p. This resolution puts more strain on the GPU than the CPU so you don't see what thre ceiling for the CPU is generally. A 1080p benchmark is the typical way of measuring CPU performance because it leaves your GPU with not much to do.
I use DLSS in most titles, which means render resolution is actually below 1080. It's a more realistic way of dropping render resolution- nobody in the real world will be using an RTX 3070 at 960P, but they *might* use 1440P with DLSS Quality, which amounts to roughly the same thing. There are exceptions, either games that don't support DLSS (Fortnite Performance Mode, which I test at 66% of 1080P) or games which I judged were lightweight enough that the CPUs I review would always be the limiting factor. After all, it's not like I'm testing 13th gen or Ryzen 7000! Right now the only regret I have is not dropping RDR2 to DLSS Balanced, as it's clearly very close to being GPU limited at DLSS Quality, even on the X99 chips.
Hi dude, Love your vids. I'd love to see a video on either the RX 460 or the FX 6300. The 460 was my first GPU and was a newer GTX 750 Ti option and the FX cpu seemed to be quite popular back in the day and there seems to be less coverage on the lower end FX, the 8000 series got all the screen time.
Are those cheap or even worth it for a video? It's like the hundreth time I mention this since several years ago, FX are obsolete and never good. A FX cannot keep up with Intel 2nd gen or Sandy Bridge...
@@takehirolol5962 That's the point, alot of people had FX back in the day. Something like an FX 6300. It's not the question of should you buy one it's just fun to see how they are now
@@brandenbridge5307 Almost Nobody reviews them anymore, RandomGaminginHD already did the final videos on this one. Hardware Unboxed and GamersNexus did their comparisons several years ago. The FX cannot keep up with a 3050 that is a 1070-1080 GPU which is a minimum GPU nowadays. Are those cheap in Cex or eBay?
@@takehirolol5962 Alot of people still run a Gtx 1060 or lower. You can get an FX CPU for £15 on Cex. Most popular games will run on nearly anything if you lower your expectations
@@brandenbridge5307 not worth it buying them at all in my opinion huge TDP and no perforamce terrible since core performance ,pretty much better buying old iviy or sandy bridge xeon from china that any FX cpu or used 10th gen i3 you can get for 30-50
To be honest, I expected a little more from this processor. I'm using an i7 3770K and I'm watching your videos to see what's best for me to replace it with in the near future. It seems to me that those old Xeons, which I adore for the price of performance, are losing a battle with newer processors that I can buy in a store, with a warranty at a decent price... ;-)
Man, I must say all of your Gaming Benchmark always way too different from other Tech UA-camrs. The most notable thing is 0.1 Lows. Here's the thing to measure: YOU SHOULD NOT Start your Benchmark from Main Menu or when triggering pause menu. Because the transition from Main Menu to the game itself will always show a Momentarily FPS dip regardless of the hardware be it 13900K + RTX 4090. You should only start measuring benchmark few seconds into the actual game
Can we get a video comparison of the i7 5930k and the xeon 1650v3 overclocking performance and any differences worth noting?? Or maybe a video of the i7 5960x compared to xeon 1660v3 overclockablity?
The 1650 v3 is where value is really at. Ordered one for $15 and overclocks to 4.6ghz and 4.5ghz ring all under 1.3v. Puts out less heat than my 5960x but my 5960x at 4.5 still probably wins due to the extra cache
And the 5820k is now only £10 from CEX - at that price it's a better deal than the 6800k. Paired with the best 'new' x99 board from China (huananzhi x99 tf) and you have a relatively capable machine that can be overclocked.
As others have been saying, if you can get a stable 4.3 you actually have a decent 6800K. At 4.5 your Haswell chips must be quite good as well; as I had three Haswell-E chips in the past which would not do a stable 4.5 at reasonable voltage. I'm not looking back to all that tweaking and being at the constant risk of degradation by pushing old chips to the limit since I got the 12900K, and now 13900K. Massively better CPUs.
YEAHHHH FINALLY I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG Kinda funny, i thought that bios oc issues is related to my crap chinese mobo, but brand ones has these too A bit dissapointing results, but i'm anyway pleased with my 6850k bcs it was bought for the same price as haswell, but consuming much less energy, that is really important for my cheap board
I love revisiting old hardware. Just for kicks, I like to put my old 3570k through its paces every now and again. It's amazing how long you can stretch a pc out. The 2600k at 4.5GHz is probably capable of providing a 60 FPS experience in just about anything all these years later. I hope my 5800x3d and 2080 Ti will stand the test of time :)
@@quaz1moto241 check if it's the original founder edition, those are the ones with the problem (I don't remember if it was micron who made the memory). If it's not then it should be fine.
2600k is great, just traded my dad his 2600k for my old 2600 and I got it to run 4.6ghz on an intel stock cooler. Thing still slaps hard, got it running with my old r9 fury x, certified space heater.
Do you think you will ever check out some old AMD 6 cores? Like the Phenom 1090T? I ask as those do still have a bit of power behind them. Granted, they are seeming to get a bit high priced anymore. But they are the 1st 6 core CPU, so there is that. Something like a Phenom II X6 1055T is about $30 used.
Intel beat AMD to the 6-core punch with Gulftown/Westmere (Westmere-EX even went up to 10 cores). While these would be interesting to see tested, they are going to be long enough in the tooth that they just aren't going to be viable options; the Phenoms in particular lack instructions necessary to get some titles like CP2077 and RDR2 to even run at all, forget running well.
The Phenoms are fun! However, the lack of SSE4.1 becomes a problem. A lot of modern titles require it to run. Heck a lack of AVX might cause some problems. Interestingly though, War Thunder Just added an update that non SSE4.1 64 bit CPUs can now use more than 4 GB of Ram in their game. It would be fun to see how this would help the game run. When I had a 1090t I think it was running 45 FPS, but that was years ago and probably the old game engine.
@@bojinglebells What is a "RDR2"? People keep shortening game names, and I can't keep track of what it is. I searched it up and got "Red Drones Rotary Blades pack of 2". . That doesn't even make since as I would think they would be made for specific drone. Further looking, do you mean "Red Dead Redemption 2"? Also I didn't know that Intel made the 1st 6 core, interesting! I have a lot of CPU's, and the AMD Phenom II X6 1035T is my only 6 core CPU. But it isn't too good, since I am "daily driving" a dual core. The Intel Pentium G7400. Also Call Of Duty Warzone 2.0 does not launch either on the Phenom II X6 1035T. And the modern ones that do, like Minecraft, don't run well. But it would be neat to take a look at something like that in a video, as it is 6 cores, and you can find them for somewhat cheap. It would make a good video to show you shouldn't get it. As someone not too savvy in tech likely would just get one if it was a good deal, not knowing it sucks in a lot of games. On the bright side, the AMD Phenom II X6 1035T is faster than my Core2 Quad Q8400, at least in multi core in Cinebench R23. In single core, the Core2 Quad Q8400 wins by a bit. If you are curious about the scores they got, this is what I got. AMD Phenom X6 1035T: 409 Single core, 2,211 Multi core. Intel Core2 Quad Q8400: 450 Single core, 1,717 Multi core.
@@Rabbit_AF Hey Rabbit! I could test that out, when I get back to the other house. I have a Phenom II X6 1035T, which is slower. But I have the game downloaded, and have that CPU, I can overclock it about 300 MHz too. I would have it paired with 16 GB, DDR3, and a Nvidia RTX 3060. (I do have a Intel ARC A380 too, but it is funky with drivers, plus the Phenom does not support Resizable Bar).
update: I bought the 1080 ti but sadly my project pc is ded. I know the i7 4790 is working so I suspect its either the motherboard or ram. just ordered a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H and 16GBs of 2400mhz ddr3 ram. wanna try overclocking for the first time 😂
i7-4790 wont be able to utilize that 1080ti to its full potential maybe at 2k at cetrain games or bencharks but thats oterwise pretty big bottleneck right there
I swapped the i7 5820k for a xeon e5-2697a v4 @3ghz with 32GB 2133. i want to try a higher speed kit but i doubt i will see much improvement from stock and can potentially break something (memory channels can die or some power issue with the motherboard. Risk vs reward is not very good.
Iceberg Tech : the i7 6800K was a 6c/12t meshed topology CPU manufactured in 2016....with 3.4 GHz base clock, only 3.6 GHz Turbo 1-core, having a 140 Watt TDP with real world power consumption of around 170-180 Watts, with only 15 MB of L3 cache, with only DDR4 2400 / 2133 support, while having 4 memory channels that were useless due to very very low IPC and Single-Core performance that MESH always had ....costing 600 - 650 EUROS. Pathetic !!!!
broadwell-e has the same ring as the previous generations,mesh appeared on x299,power consumption is way better than haswell, memory is working on 3200 int this video,ipc is the same as comet lake, the only issue is lack of overclocking potential even compared to haswell, but these chip not as bad as youre trying to prove
My friend has one of these cpus and that exact same motherboard. What's weird is the computer will crash and restart when at the desktop. But it is fine when playing games
The power supply is going bad. The ripple and such is probably so bad at lower loads that the CPU is shutting down. During gaming the load increases which will usually stabilize a failing PSU. Replace the PSU and the shutdowns at idle should stop.
@@bryanwages3518 👍Yup, I have seen it several times. The last one was a old (6-7 years running 24/7) and refurbished Enermax 850 DF PSU, top of the line PSU even refurbished. PC was 9600k, Z370 with 32 GB and RTX 2070. Played games great. Sit and watch UA-cam for a couple hours or just idle, random shutdown. Swapped in a Corsair RM850x (refurbished 😃) no more shutdowns.
I think this is the first channel I stumbled where it uses *Valorant* as a CPU benchmark testing result. I really don't get it why others don't use it when it really is a very CPU bound game. I had a 5820K back then with a 2070s, which only ran 144-200+ish FPS @1440p and now with my new 7800X3D with the same GPU @ 500-1000FPS same resolution.
wanting to upgrade my gf's pc on a budget. Currently running a stock i5 6600k. As games need more cores I was thinking between waiting and spend more on a new CPU and MOBO (looking at used Ryzen 2600s) or only spending 35$ and getting an i7 6800k. Do you think the performance jump from a 4core i5 to this 6 core hyper threaded cpu will be worth it? She mostly plays minecraft and I've noticed it starts to stutter a bit. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Eh, disagree. If you compare it to its immediate predecessors, it only manages an extra 30% multi-core performance gain vs the 6700, all the while consuming 110% the power.
Nice, but I've had better luck with msi for x99 oc. The godlike had a funny feature, that you could change the speed, boost and oc setting per core if you wanted. I got the i7 6850k stable at 4.4 ghz. I had gskill 8x8 3600mhz cas 16. I could get better oc if i only used 4 compared to 8 sticks, but needed the 64, adobie wouldn't crash at 64 gigs of ram
It's impressive you can get it to 4.3ghz, I had a 6800k for many years, I was able to get it to 4.2ghz initially, then it eventually degraded and I had to run it at 4.1ghz max.
Ahh, X99, the stuff of dreams back then, and perhaps the stuff of nightmares in the present day (as evidenced by the difficulty overclocking). You're a glutton for punishment, and I feel a mild sense of guilt at experiencing pleasure as you suffer in order to bring us these fascinating, anachronistic, tests and comparisons. Of course you've made us curious about the 6850k now; will that one put up less resistance (heh) as it's pushed towards, and maybe even beyond, 4.5 GHz? I'll stay tuned to find out!
I got a 3080 paired with a 10600k ... 😀 ... not complaining as anything above 90 fps at 1440p is fine and it does just that in most titles. Wanted a 13600k but mobo prices are insane at the moment.
@@AurioDK I know and if you are going 13600k you need atleast a 8 layer board for ddr5 for it to get decent speeds or its not worth getting ddr5 you're better off with b die ddr4
Note: my X99 board misreports CPU power consumption. I measured total system consumption at the wall as 215w (4.3GHz) during Cinebench, compared to 272w from the preceding i7-5930K (4.5GHz)
what voltage was broadwell using?Xtu setting report about 1.37, am i right? Thats huge, mine doing 4.4 on 1.28 stable
@@ПредводительПельмешек I think I settled on 1.32 or 1.33
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Is possible for you to test some AMD FX cpus? maybe the FX 8350 or the "mighty" FX 9590.
To be honest, I expected a little more from this processor. I'm using an i7 3770K and I'm watching your videos to see what's best for me to replace it with in the near future. It seems to me that those old Xeons, which I adore for the price of performance, are losing a battle with newer processors that I can buy in a store, with a warranty at a decent price... ;-)
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I used to have a 6800K but the only problem was that is was from AMD.
Oof, it’s alright friend, it can’t hurt you anymore, (I think).
I had an A8-5600k in my first “gaming” PC paired with a GTX 950. Now that was an awful PC but I loved it.
atleast it wasnt an i5 5200u
i had the a10- 5800k overclocked to like 4.5. The i3 2100 was slightly faster 🤣🤣
You actually have a pretty good 6800K. Broadwell-E typically topped out around 4.1-4.2 GHz, with the high quality samples hitting 4.3GHz. It’s why when Broadwell-E first launched there were a lot of recommendations to just get Haswell-E and overclock it to 4.5-4.7GHz.
Mine 6850k achieved 4.5😎.Looks like quality control is a thing
The pain of a new node shrink will do that. 22nm was mature by this point 14nm was new and couldn't get them clocks up.
I got one of those eBay extreme edition 6950Xs and ive had it sitting stable at 4.4 for almost a year. My old 6800k it replaced also was able to hit 4.4, but it usually ran about 4.0 due to the limited Alienware Area-51 board it was sitting in.
interesting i didnt know this, i was given a 6850K in a board by a friend to replace my 4790K, i immediately OCd it to 4.3ghz barely touching voltage to get to where my 4790K was and never had issues. didnt know this was a kinda rare result lmao
does make me wonder how high i could push it honestly.
Yeah broadwell sucked at overclocking but the IPC gain and 14nm made a 4.2ghz on par performance of a 4.7ghz haswell cpu.
I have X99-A and i7 6800k with 1070gtx and it's a great combo since 2016!
I have the exact same and I can't run league of legends or pubg without seeing frame drops in the 20s 30s 40s 50s
@@Moclipz Actually never saw dips in multiplayer games, maybe i am less sensitive to dips than the average gamer (haven't run any benchmark for dips and previous pc was old junk).
@@Moclipz i also have the exact same setup and can run league and pubg fine at nearly everything max graphics. id look into new thermal paste had this issue in the past or perhaps need more ram/ its not running dual channel
Yup, still using the exact same setup as a professional video editor. Although this 5960x is looking nice, as well as 3060rtx and probably additional 32Gb of RAM.. you know, just to future proof it a bit more. :)
That Edram on the i7-5775C is a godsend. It makes a higher clocked 6 core lose to a lower clocked 4 core. Insane.
Im pretty sure that ever since core 2 we were at a point where how fast you could get data to the cpu was the main limiter of performance. Depends on the workload of course, linear workloads really got crushed with modern branch predicition.
@@xentiment6581yeah I gotta agree we went from 1333 mhz ddr3 to 4200mhz ddr4 and from pcie 2 with .5 gbs per lane to pcie 3 1gbs huge gains in data transfer between the cpu storage and gpu
4,3Ghz overclock with DDR4-3200Mhz is normal.
I have i7-6950x and my overclock is set in the bios but works only after set Windows 10 in sleep mode.
>Haswell-E with 4,5 Ghz
prime95 AVX2 is really hot|power hungry or not stable with high overclocked Haswell-E.
Also there is no AVX-offset for overclocking like for Haswell-E.
There are older high core count Xeons (Haswell-E, v3 10-18 cores) which are cheap and you use hacks for boost or ReBar.
But the are slower in games as the consumer counter part i7-5820k etc., because of the slower clock.
I get my Xeon 2696v3 for ~90 euros.
And as always, great video :3
I’m always super interested in these, but it’s so obvious just a new budget friendly cpu is always better with how much tech advancement has occurred in the time since. Great content.
The broadwell series was super under rated that 128mb level 4 cache is really helping now
BW-E was a beast. Was thinking about this CPU back when I had a X99 platform.
👍🏆 Great content Iceberg Tech! The 9600k , 9700k and 9900k were a interesting generation. A 6 core i5 with no HT. An 8 core i7 with with no HT. The first i9. If I had not wimped out and bought a 9900k instead of a 9700k, I probably still have it and would have waited longer than the 13700k to upgrade. Live and learn.
Seems I made good buying decisions back in 2016/2017 with this CPU and the 1080ti :D
I've since upgraded to the 6950x(got it cheap and sold the 6800k) and I can't really say I'm looking into upgrading anytime soon.
i have a 2nd workstation for video edition... Davinci Resolve 18.5 with proxys for 4K 30fps.. some clips 4K 60fps even 120fps.. (proxys) ...with RTX 3070, 32GB RAM DDR4 1600, RAID 0 SSD´s, mobo Asus X99 A-II, one NVMe Samsung 950 PRO for OS.. all these hardware with a Core i7 6850K ...works well, not problems, normal video edition not speed but works so well!! ...on my work have Photoshop, Capture One both with RAW files.. Topaz Sharpen IA... 7zip... Corel Draw 2024, Acrobat DC Pro, Luminar Neo, Movavi Converter.. really.. no problem.. works well!!
i really dont understand using the same frequency for chips that are capable of dramatically different frequencies. it's not apples to apples at all
Good conntent as usual, just picked up a 6950x as an upgade from a 5960x only managed 4.2 so far,
Paid £160 but there going for around £200
its not really worth it is it ? you can get Ryzen r5 5600 for that price in certain locations which will be still better choice overall besides like multi core workloads only,for 200 you can get 5700x which is actually even as good in multi core raw performance even though it has 2cores less
What board you running and on Broadwell you are safe to go upto 1.45v for them and try to bump the ring clock it.will help
Asus Rampage v extreme , any overclocking tips welcome its on aio not air.
@@w33mik62 yeah so to start with for memory you want to go to your training settings and tell it to use smart mode it means it won't boot unless all channels are trained so you don't drop ram channels, with a 6950x you can push them pretty hard, you want to just take it slow 1.35v might get you 4.5 but if you're temp are low then 1.45v is fine, you want to get the ring as High as you can and tune the ram down for getting that lower latency if you have a way I can pm or discord I can send photos a that as I daily a x99 Asus board
@@w33mik62 also max out all your current limits and switching frequency for the vrm and set all phases active you want to set vccin around 1.95 to 2v it helps, as for ram well that depends on your stick and memory controller 1.5v is fine on these but you will need to play with vccsa keep that under 1.25v I personlly use under 1v as that got me the best stability but ever chip and board are different and you want to set vccio as th bios sets that way too high, now for ram settings that gets a little hard to judge and you can find you need more dram voltage to get the sticks to boot but will be rock solid with much less voltage so you can set for a boot vtage 1.65v for boot and then a running vtage of 1.50 1.52, I would start with 3200mhz and take it from there you might want to set some loose timings till you see what speed your chip can do say 21 23 23 56 but it's a balancing act on what you can get stable but it is worth putting sometime into tuning the ram, the ring you won't get alot put of it I'd have to check but 3.5 I think should be doable at around 1.35v cache
This is the CPU I use daily, it does the job for me despite catching a lot of flak online, cheers for the video
Originally had a 6800k on a ROG X99 Edition 10 Board with a 980ti I bought used. It wouldn't overclock that well and has fewer lanes then it's bigger brothers. I upgraded to a 6850k and a 1080ti, then a 6900k and two ROG 1080ti's in Vertical SLI. Still have two 6800k's in my inventory. No problems, even running with 64G of memory. I'm keeping the Build, as it's in a Helios Case, but have put together a ROG X299 / 9900X / 64g / ROG 2080ti Build. Gotta love the look of 8 sticks of Ram flanking the CPU. 😍
I bought one new back in 2016 together with a X99 Ultra Gaming Board. Mine never clocked higher than that either regardless of what i did to it. Still have it, though i sold the motherboard for nearly full retail price again - 5 years later. Talk about good value. Cannot say the same about the CPU which was basically worthless after those 5 years and lost 90% of it´s value.
Thank you for this. I personally run 5 cores at 4.2 and the best core at 4.4. Anything above 4.3 takes too many volts for me. 4.5 is possible but not stable. I also use the Asus X99A-II.
I think I read somewhere that Intel broke overclocking on this generation of CPUs when they patched the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.
Asus released a bios update to fix the windows security update breaking overclocking for broadwell e back in 2019. I still had the bios on flash drive I found recently. Was still dumb that OC was broken for my i7 6800k for about 2ish years lol
1:08 maybe like 7 years ago, nowadays you're better off with intel XTU or just simple ol throttle stop
Been running a 6800k since 2016. Built the system about a month after it came out and made a point of getting it over a 6700k build with the goal of it lasting me at least 6 years. Here I am now only change to the system I have made was upgrading the 1070 to a 1080 ti.
Honestly only in the last year or so have I noticed the CPU start to show it's age so I decided to see how far I can push an OC. can run a stable OC at 4.3ghz which really brought the life back into the CPU. Lets just say I already sure as hell got my money's worth but probably still wont upgrade for a little while longer.
Looking at these charts made me realize just how good the R5 5600x is.
looking at this comment made me realize how good of an amd fanboy you are
@@scoob892 You're making a really strong point, it's just not the one you think you are... Bless your heart.
@@cairnex4473 thank you I really appreciate it...
the 5600 non-x ? yes, the 5600x ? hell no, you are paying extra for like 3-5% perf. and the letter X
@@autumn42762 They are priced the same in my country...
I like this video 💪 for Esport games cpu like this is still all you need imo. Power consumption is likely pretty high tho ? My 7900 can score 29k in cinebench 23 while Max power draw is 130w and im super happy with that.. while gaming is somewhere around 40-75 usually going up to 90 in very few games i play. Ryzen 5600 non x would be my recommendation nowdays for "budget" builds. Its so cheap and great imo
Still rockin a 6950x here.
Hit 4.8ghz all 10 cores, on air (conditioner, shhhhh, yeah it's a cheat)
With headroom to go higher, one problem cropped up though, the whole house got down to 50f (10c) which in turn shut the central air down, 50f is as low as I can set it.. lol, got cold burrrrrr..
So as a result, didn't try to take the chip any higher than 4.8ghz after that..
You get 4.8 from just AC that's really good it is fully stable? And what voltages as they tap out at 5ghz for ln2 for actually benching
As for the AC just pull the temp prop out and just keep the prop warm and it'll go lower
wait, you're cooling your CPU with air conditioning? that's sick, how?
@@harrywilson7980 did that back in the spring of 2018, don't really remember exact settings, but didn't go too crazy with the voltages.. Someone (on ln2) actually hit aprox 5.5ghz with a 6950x.
Yes it was very stable until the central air kicked off..
@@us249 yes, in the spring/summer/fall.
All you really need to do is have AC running in the room, and you'd be cooling your PC with an AC unit.
Useage of AC units has a long history of cooling electronics.
However, while testing.
I just put the PC on the floor in front of the duct, and make a makeshift boot so that all the air coming through the duct has to flow through the PC.
I run rackmount cases (horizontal) which does make creating a air tight seal easier than using a tower case. Though can still be done.
PC basically becomes part of the ductwork. That same ductwork becomes a heat source in the winter months.
Normal useage of the machine, it only has a slight overclock, running all cores at its stock turbo speed of 3.5ghz.
Needless to say.
Attempting to run at 4.8ghz as a daily driver, I wouldn't still be rockin a 6950x
The 6800K was actually my first desktop cpu since I only bought laptops before that. Most of them including mine capped out at 4.3ghz. I only "upgraded" from that cpu to a 2700x thanks to Asus x99 boards having an infamous bug that kills cpus along with the board itself in some cases. My 2700x was definitely noticeably worse in gaming though.
yeah did u upgrade to zen3 since than the 5xxx series is great
slap a 5800X3D in that mf you wont regret it
ryzen was only okay on am4. the only cpu in that socket that REALLY surprised me was the 5800x3d, which is my current cpu. that thing made more difference in games on its own that the cumulative progress from zen1 to zen 3. heck, it made more difference than going from a 2500k, to a 2700x, to a 5600x. it nearly doubled my underwhelming 5600x in cpu bound games.
@@GraveUypo yeah well price/performance here in SVK is great on theese 5xxx chips i got mine 5600 for 145€ and bought a35 cooler oced to 4.8Ghz stable it is pretty good for its price 660 cpu z single core over 5000 multicore for 145+30€ cooler so i am happy with that it is pretty good for some video editing and encoding too way better than 2700x even though it has 2 core less it actually matched in some tests stock ryzen 7 3700,overall for the price they are best where i live i would otherwise go for 13th or 12th gen i5 from intel most likely but they do cost way more i think i5 12400f is around 180€ so that is more than 20% price difference that is just not worth it for me. I might upgrade later to 8 core but i def do not need more than 6 cores right now i only utilize them fully while encoding videos or editing
@@turtleneck369 Yes, but it was underwhelming for me since my 5800x bin was horrible and never boosted past 4.5ghz all core, but my 2700x was a golden sample that did 4.45ghz all core. I noticed a bigger uplift going from my 5800x to my old 12700k than going from the 2700x to the 5800x.
YES, I have always had issues over clocking my 6800k as well! It keeps resetting and I'd have to OC it every start up 😥😥😥😥
Really enjoyed the pacing of this video by the way, so thank you!
your OC reverted in Windows due to microcode issues. also, 4.5GHz is not possible to achieve on most Broadwell-E chips. 4.3 or at most 4.4, see Silicon Lottery historical binning data
No not a micro code issue just a gigabyte having a terrible settings layout you have to set the.clocks two or three times in the bios for it to take properly and then sometimes have to force which turbo boost mode you want to use cause the bios is sometimes stupid
Yet another surprising, interesting, high quality video! With these videos you are really spoiling us Mr Ambassador
I know you probably won't do this any time soon, but I do look forward to the day that you get your mitts on a Ryzen 7 5800X3D to show what the AM4 platform tops out at compared to the budget Ryzen 5 5600/5600x and the rest of the stack.
I simply don´t understand the used market pricing
As you said: you can get new and more efficient hardware for just a few $ more
Depends on your country, we in asia are used to it
Unfortunately, as long as people continue to pay more than those chips are really worth, the prices will remain as they are.
yeah people are still selling used 4770k's for a new ryzen 5 5600 prices here, that just makes no sense
Having used a xeon w3690 since 2012 these 6th gen cpus were nothing impressive. Thank god for amd ryzen which forced intel to actually get off their azzes and offer something new and better.
I remember dreaming about the 6900K back when I had an i3 4170
I just want you to know that I un-subbed from LTT and subbed to you instead, keep up the good work!
If broadwell was more affordable like the current CPUs it would’ve been a gem of a generation. The 6900k retailed at $1000.00
I do love your old tech reviews but I personally find the lack of clocks of the overclockable parts in comparison tables very confusing.
Can you please try the higher version of this "6950X"
Bro Please compare GeForce 210 1GB DDR3 with HD 630 (i3 7100) please bro please!!
I think my 6800k computer finally died today, it has been acting strange the past few days and trying to boot into safe mode to troubleshoot was it's final straw now it won't even post.
How tf is this channel still only at 24.3k subs?
I love your videos, and your general layout if things. However my biggest criticism is in most of your videos you are testing CPUs, but at 1440p. This resolution puts more strain on the GPU than the CPU so you don't see what thre ceiling for the CPU is generally. A 1080p benchmark is the typical way of measuring CPU performance because it leaves your GPU with not much to do.
I use DLSS in most titles, which means render resolution is actually below 1080. It's a more realistic way of dropping render resolution- nobody in the real world will be using an RTX 3070 at 960P, but they *might* use 1440P with DLSS Quality, which amounts to roughly the same thing.
There are exceptions, either games that don't support DLSS (Fortnite Performance Mode, which I test at 66% of 1080P) or games which I judged were lightweight enough that the CPUs I review would always be the limiting factor. After all, it's not like I'm testing 13th gen or Ryzen 7000!
Right now the only regret I have is not dropping RDR2 to DLSS Balanced, as it's clearly very close to being GPU limited at DLSS Quality, even on the X99 chips.
iw been rocking this cpu since 2016 , mixed with a 2060. Id say its only in the last year iw notised its really time to upgrade
Hi dude, Love your vids. I'd love to see a video on either the RX 460 or the FX 6300. The 460 was my first GPU and was a newer GTX 750 Ti option and the FX cpu seemed to be quite popular back in the day and there seems to be less coverage on the lower end FX, the 8000 series got all the screen time.
Are those cheap or even worth it for a video? It's like the hundreth time I mention this since several years ago, FX are obsolete and never good. A FX cannot keep up with Intel 2nd gen or Sandy Bridge...
@@takehirolol5962 That's the point, alot of people had FX back in the day. Something like an FX 6300. It's not the question of should you buy one it's just fun to see how they are now
@@brandenbridge5307 Almost Nobody reviews them anymore, RandomGaminginHD already did the final videos on this one.
Hardware Unboxed and GamersNexus did their comparisons several years ago.
The FX cannot keep up with a 3050 that is a 1070-1080 GPU which is a minimum GPU nowadays.
Are those cheap in Cex or eBay?
@@takehirolol5962 Alot of people still run a Gtx 1060 or lower. You can get an FX CPU for £15 on Cex. Most popular games will run on nearly anything if you lower your expectations
@@brandenbridge5307 not worth it buying them at all in my opinion huge TDP and no perforamce terrible since core performance ,pretty much better buying old iviy or sandy bridge xeon from china that any FX cpu or used 10th gen i3 you can get for 30-50
thoughts on i7 6950x vs i7 5960x? I got a nice x99 board for free and was wondering id f the 6950x warranted the price difference.
To be honest, I expected a little more from this processor. I'm using an i7 3770K and I'm watching your videos to see what's best for me to replace it with in the near future. It seems to me that those old Xeons, which I adore for the price of performance, are losing a battle with newer processors that I can buy in a store, with a warranty at a decent price... ;-)
Just buy a 5600 and be done with it. These old Intel CPUs are not worth it anymore.
@@razvanfodor5653 It seems so or maybe i5 in the same price range (13th gen), hard to say... ;-)
@@deagt3388 Yeah, sure, a 13500 is awesome for instance. Though I think more expensive.
@@razvanfodor5653 My plan is to buy decent CPU and to upgrade in few years, that's the smartest in money sense... ;-)
@@deagt3388 12400 have not any competitor's for now imo
I have a Core i7 6950X (10 core version of this) in one of my homelab servers, with 64GB of memory. It's running 8 VMs right now.
Review the xeon 1650 v4 (my CPU lmao)
I still use i7 6850k with asus rampage v mobo. Still a beast of a cpu even today !!!
Man, I must say all of your Gaming Benchmark always way too different from other Tech UA-camrs.
The most notable thing is 0.1 Lows. Here's the thing to measure: YOU SHOULD NOT Start your Benchmark from Main Menu or when triggering pause menu. Because the transition from Main Menu to the game itself will always show a Momentarily FPS dip regardless of the hardware be it 13900K + RTX 4090.
You should only start measuring benchmark few seconds into the actual game
Where/ what version of intel xtu did you download, the version I’m trying wont work
Can we get a video comparison of the i7 5930k and the xeon 1650v3 overclocking performance and any differences worth noting??
Or maybe a video of the i7 5960x compared to xeon 1660v3 overclockablity?
The 1650 v3 is where value is really at. Ordered one for $15 and overclocks to 4.6ghz and 4.5ghz ring all under 1.3v. Puts out less heat than my 5960x but my 5960x at 4.5 still probably wins due to the extra cache
I had a 5820k and got the 6800k for basically free so I upgraded. It really wasn't an upgrade, no real performance boost, maybe 5% boost at most.
And the 5820k is now only £10 from CEX - at that price it's a better deal than the 6800k. Paired with the best 'new' x99 board from China (huananzhi x99 tf) and you have a relatively capable machine that can be overclocked.
As others have been saying, if you can get a stable 4.3 you actually have a decent 6800K. At 4.5 your Haswell chips must be quite good as well; as I had three Haswell-E chips in the past which would not do a stable 4.5 at reasonable voltage.
I'm not looking back to all that tweaking and being at the constant risk of degradation by pushing old chips to the limit since I got the 12900K, and now 13900K. Massively better CPUs.
I am still using my 6950x i7 today! Its at 4.5GHz but I do have e a 480x60mm radiator on it hahaha with my gpu but it still dominates games.
YEAHHHH FINALLY I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG
Kinda funny, i thought that bios oc issues is related to my crap chinese mobo, but brand ones has these too
A bit dissapointing results, but i'm anyway pleased with my 6850k bcs it was bought for the same price as haswell, but consuming much less energy, that is really important for my cheap board
I love revisiting old hardware. Just for kicks, I like to put my old 3570k through its paces every now and again. It's amazing how long you can stretch a pc out. The 2600k at 4.5GHz is probably capable of providing a 60 FPS experience in just about anything all these years later. I hope my 5800x3d and 2080 Ti will stand the test of time :)
actually, the 2080 ti has been notorious to have memory issues (due to the at the time very new gddr6) so it migth fail you in the next 3 to 5 years
@@keine_ahnung_wie_der_heisst I've had it undervolted since day 1 maybe it'll hold on just a bit longer than expected!
the 4 cores are becoming problems in certain titles like Cyperpunk Battlefield COD and so on
@@quaz1moto241 check if it's the original founder edition, those are the ones with the problem (I don't remember if it was micron who made the memory). If it's not then it should be fine.
2600k is great, just traded my dad his 2600k for my old 2600 and I got it to run 4.6ghz on an intel stock cooler. Thing still slaps hard, got it running with my old r9 fury x, certified space heater.
Do you think you will ever check out some old AMD 6 cores? Like the Phenom 1090T? I ask as those do still have a bit of power behind them. Granted, they are seeming to get a bit high priced anymore. But they are the 1st 6 core CPU, so there is that.
Something like a Phenom II X6 1055T is about $30 used.
Intel beat AMD to the 6-core punch with Gulftown/Westmere (Westmere-EX even went up to 10 cores). While these would be interesting to see tested, they are going to be long enough in the tooth that they just aren't going to be viable options; the Phenoms in particular lack instructions necessary to get some titles like CP2077 and RDR2 to even run at all, forget running well.
The Phenoms are fun! However, the lack of SSE4.1 becomes a problem. A lot of modern titles require it to run. Heck a lack of AVX might cause some problems.
Interestingly though, War Thunder Just added an update that non SSE4.1 64 bit CPUs can now use more than 4 GB of Ram in their game. It would be fun to see how this would help the game run. When I had a 1090t I think it was running 45 FPS, but that was years ago and probably the old game engine.
@@bojinglebells What is a "RDR2"? People keep shortening game names, and I can't keep track of what it is. I searched it up and got "Red Drones Rotary Blades pack of 2". . That doesn't even make since as I would think they would be made for specific drone.
Further looking, do you mean "Red Dead Redemption 2"?
Also I didn't know that Intel made the 1st 6 core, interesting! I have a lot of CPU's, and the AMD Phenom II X6 1035T is my only 6 core CPU. But it isn't too good, since I am "daily driving" a dual core. The Intel Pentium G7400.
Also Call Of Duty Warzone 2.0 does not launch either on the Phenom II X6 1035T. And the modern ones that do, like Minecraft, don't run well.
But it would be neat to take a look at something like that in a video, as it is 6 cores, and you can find them for somewhat cheap. It would make a good video to show you shouldn't get it. As someone not too savvy in tech likely would just get one if it was a good deal, not knowing it sucks in a lot of games.
On the bright side, the AMD Phenom II X6 1035T is faster than my Core2 Quad Q8400, at least in multi core in Cinebench R23. In single core, the Core2 Quad Q8400 wins by a bit. If you are curious about the scores they got, this is what I got.
AMD Phenom X6 1035T: 409 Single core, 2,211 Multi core.
Intel Core2 Quad Q8400: 450 Single core, 1,717 Multi core.
@@Rabbit_AF Hey Rabbit! I could test that out, when I get back to the other house. I have a Phenom II X6 1035T, which is slower. But I have the game downloaded, and have that CPU, I can overclock it about 300 MHz too.
I would have it paired with 16 GB, DDR3, and a Nvidia RTX 3060. (I do have a Intel ARC A380 too, but it is funky with drivers, plus the Phenom does not support Resizable Bar).
@@lockdot2 Nice! I look forward to your findings. I wish I had kept that Phenom II x6 I had it in that Thermaltake AMD case and all. 🤣
update: I bought the 1080 ti but sadly my project pc is ded. I know the i7 4790 is working so I suspect its either the motherboard or ram. just ordered a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H and 16GBs of 2400mhz ddr3 ram. wanna try overclocking for the first time 😂
i7-4790 wont be able to utilize that 1080ti to its full potential maybe at 2k at cetrain games or bencharks but thats oterwise pretty big bottleneck right there
@@turtleneck369 That and a 4790 can't be overclocked because it isn't a K sku.
@@yasu_red i thought he meant K chip if it is not K than it will be even worse in terms of bottlenecking
Mine died today after 8 years. Rip to my first cpu we had a nice run
hello i know its weird but you should try overclockable i3 like the i3-8350K lots of people oc'ed them to 5.0ghz and got a lot of performance gain
I swapped the i7 5820k for a xeon e5-2697a v4 @3ghz with 32GB 2133. i want to try a higher speed kit but i doubt i will see much improvement from stock and can potentially break something (memory channels can die or some power issue with the motherboard. Risk vs reward is not very good.
I got really good Silicon Lottery for my old r5-1600x could overclock to 4.3Ghz
Leave it to lord iceberg to have a video on some random old cpu i just learned existed
Nex Machina soundtrack in the Background 😎
Iceberg Tech : the i7 6800K was a 6c/12t meshed topology CPU manufactured in 2016....with 3.4 GHz base clock, only 3.6 GHz Turbo 1-core, having a 140 Watt TDP with real world power consumption of around 170-180 Watts, with only 15 MB of L3 cache, with only DDR4 2400 / 2133 support, while having 4 memory channels that were useless due to very very low IPC and Single-Core performance that MESH always had ....costing 600 - 650 EUROS. Pathetic !!!!
broadwell-e has the same ring as the previous generations,mesh appeared on x299,power consumption is way better than haswell, memory is working on 3200 int this video,ipc is the same as comet lake, the only issue is lack of overclocking potential even compared to haswell, but these chip not as bad as youre trying to prove
The power consumption is definitely lower than what you stated. Atleast on reasonable voltages.
I had this chip. 6000 series were known for being poor overclockers compared to 5000 series
👀10:52 11th generation Intel i5 CPU? What sorcery is this!!?
Everyone knows Intel 11th Generation is a myth they don't really exist. 😃
Just bought a z440 with xeon e5 1650v4 (same as the i7-6850k).
My friend has one of these cpus and that exact same motherboard. What's weird is the computer will crash and restart when at the desktop. But it is fine when playing games
The power supply is going bad. The ripple and such is probably so bad at lower loads that the CPU is shutting down. During gaming the load increases which will usually stabilize a failing PSU. Replace the PSU and the shutdowns at idle should stop.
@Auntie Pha thanks. I'll have him try a new psu then.
@@bryanwages3518 👍Yup, I have seen it several times. The last one was a old (6-7 years running 24/7) and refurbished Enermax 850 DF PSU, top of the line PSU even refurbished. PC was 9600k, Z370 with 32 GB and RTX 2070. Played games great. Sit and watch UA-cam for a couple hours or just idle, random shutdown. Swapped in a Corsair RM850x (refurbished 😃) no more shutdowns.
Amazing video!!! I love your content!!!!
I think this is the first channel I stumbled where it uses *Valorant* as a CPU benchmark testing result. I really don't get it why others don't use it when it really is a very CPU bound game. I had a 5820K back then with a 2070s, which only ran 144-200+ish FPS @1440p and now with my new 7800X3D with the same GPU @ 500-1000FPS same resolution.
wanting to upgrade my gf's pc on a budget. Currently running a stock i5 6600k. As games need more cores I was thinking between waiting and spend more on a new CPU and MOBO (looking at used Ryzen 2600s) or only spending 35$ and getting an i7 6800k. Do you think the performance jump from a 4core i5 to this 6 core hyper threaded cpu will be worth it? She mostly plays minecraft and I've noticed it starts to stutter a bit. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Do you have i5 3470 lying around? Kinda curious.... XD Seriously...
This my CPU... I remember paying 400€ for it at the time 🤡
AMD vs NVIDIA theres a think that NVIDIA drivers use more cpu then amds
suggestion to add RE4 Remake on benchmarks?
Yes, I've just added RE4R to my GPU test suite. It doesn't look particularly CPU-intensive, though.
Eh, disagree. If you compare it to its immediate predecessors, it only manages an extra 30% multi-core performance gain vs the 6700, all the while consuming 110% the power.
Nice, but I've had better luck with msi for x99 oc. The godlike had a funny feature, that you could change the speed, boost and oc setting per core if you wanted. I got the i7 6850k stable at 4.4 ghz. I had gskill 8x8 3600mhz cas 16. I could get better oc if i only used 4 compared to 8 sticks, but needed the 64, adobie wouldn't crash at 64 gigs of ram
you should try the 2699 v3 or the 2696 v4, with prices falling, those might not be bad cpus for productivity or vms
I think this tests are wrong. My chip (i7 6800k) always performed better than i7 5960x.
Now I'm curious how a 6800K + 6800XT build would perform.
Call the machine "The 6800."
probably not well as the 6800K is a major bottle neck. but with a 2697 V3 turbo unlock, it might go crazy
would this cpu work in dual x99 motherboard , like dual 6800k for 12 core total?
I've got one of these with 64GB. Just bought a Xeon E5-2698 v4 to drop in. Will report on 20 cores.
Back in the day I was about to buy one and then Ryzen 1000 came out and I saved a ton of money. XD
ryzen 1000?🤣🤣
@@scoob892 he meant 1xxx series i guess
@@turtleneck369 yes.
140 watts power comsumption IS NOT ahead of its time 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is pointless. New CPUs are not expensive at all unlike GPUs, it would be stupid to get a x99 board that costs even more.
Good video. I read some reviews and your overclock is average, looks like you need "crazing cooling" with "suicide" voltages to hit 4.5ghz.
5820k 6 Core also runs 4,2 - 4,5 GHz on generation before. 350€
Common iceberg win
It's impressive you can get it to 4.3ghz, I had a 6800k for many years, I was able to get it to 4.2ghz initially, then it eventually degraded and I had to run it at 4.1ghz max.
You have to got to 1.45v to get past 4.2
nevah clicked on a video so fast ong
Great video! Good job👍
Ahh, X99, the stuff of dreams back then, and perhaps the stuff of nightmares in the present day (as evidenced by the difficulty overclocking). You're a glutton for punishment, and I feel a mild sense of guilt at experiencing pleasure as you suffer in order to bring us these fascinating, anachronistic, tests and comparisons. Of course you've made us curious about the 6850k now; will that one put up less resistance (heh) as it's pushed towards, and maybe even beyond, 4.5 GHz? I'll stay tuned to find out!
Mine 6850k doing noticeably better(4.5 is achieveable) so i think that high bin is a thing
Great video.
Is the 6800K worth it? No because the 5960x exists.
And the unlocked xeons for Haswell ep as well 1650v3 1660v3 1680v3 all cheap the 1650v3 is dirt cheap 12-15quid the now
here im happy with my 10700k, took me a bit to get the 6900xt i wanted for it but got it,
I got a 3080 paired with a 10600k ... 😀 ... not complaining as anything above 90 fps at 1440p is fine and it does just that in most titles. Wanted a 13600k but mobo prices are insane at the moment.
@@AurioDK I'm just happy 4K 60 hurts or 120 depending on the game
@@AurioDK I know and if you are going 13600k you need atleast a 8 layer board for ddr5 for it to get decent speeds or its not worth getting ddr5 you're better off with b die ddr4
It was but unfortunately b-die wasn’t around so it couldn’t show it’s true potential
Dude really needs an better motherboard and take his time with overclocking and even maybe hire someone to teach him.
Please test i5 8400/i7 8700 non-k vs i5 12400. Thank you ...❤😊
Pretty awesome you got the 6800k to run with 3200 Mhz speed.
As if its irrelevant because its not modern.
Most people can get by on a decent quad thread.