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
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.
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
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 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!!
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.
The intel 6700 Sky Lake was also 14nm and is still a very usable and capable CPU when paired with something like a RTX 2070 Super, running on a B150 Gaming MB easily running AAA games. Been running mine since the end of 2015 upgraded the graphics card a few months ago and still using it as a second machine and back up system.
Would you recommend that 6700K for something more than games. I'm looking at used build that I found with gtx 1080 and 32gb ddr4. Planning to use it for photo/video editing, cause I am really wasting my time with my current laptop.
👍🏆 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.
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
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.
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. 😍
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.
been using the i7 6800K since 2016 and could edit 6k blackmagic file easily with RTX3070. Play all the games.. one of my 16 GB RAM sticks died so looking to replace it.. looking forward to upgrading to i9 13900K when I can no longer use my current one. I recommend to buy a top tier cpu, which will last you for more than 5 years.
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.
3:12 if I remember, Haswell and Broadwell eDRAM was slightly different than Skylake-based eDRAM in more ways than capacity. In Haswell/Broadwell CPUs the eDRAM was a “L4” victim cache, while in Skylake-based CPUs it was more of a buffer between the CPU and the memory
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
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
Still using my i7 6800k and GTX 1080 I purchased in 2016. Have mine running at 4 GHz at 1.3v There was a period of about 2ish years if i remember right where a Windows update didn't let you overclock due to the spectre meltdown vulnerability. Board manufacturers released bios updates to fix this.
@jorgeruedamd1441 I'm planning on keeping my current cpu and mobo for a few more years. I've already upgraded my gpu since it has been showing its age recently and i can carry the new one easily to a newer mobo/cpu later. Also taking advantage of ssd prices and fully upgraded to only ssd's (2tb nvme, and 4 sata ssds). Gonna wait and see what the cpu market looks like in a few years. Don't wanna jump into a current socket that won't be supported.
Still running my 8086K, its a 8700K binned by Intel, which for me was only $20 over the 8700K. Mine happily sits at 5.2GHZ allcore 1.25V Vcore on open loop. Great little cpu. Paired with my EVGA 1080ti Black which clocks just over 2ghz, also on water, A Z390 Aorus Pro MB, 32G Corsair 3600 mhz ram this old PC is still going strong.
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).
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
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 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
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
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.
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
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
I skipped on many upgrade possibilities, when my i7-6800K was my main rig. Didn´t settle for anything, till the Ryzen 9 3900X, but my kinda early X570 board is a disgrace, compared to newer B550 boards in overall feature set.
It's 1150, but yes. I added the i5 to the on-screen text because it's a list of the CPUs I've tested at 4.5GHz, and it's listed with the i7-5930K and i7-5960X because they're all the same 22nm Haswell architecture. The voiceover clashes with that somewhat, because I don't mention the i5. I'm talking about the issues I had trying to OC the 6800K to 4.5, despite older CPUs on the same socket being more than capable of clocking that high. Sorry for the confusion!
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.
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 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.
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... ;-)
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 intro track is "808 Doorbell Chime" by Unicorn Heads, which can be found here on UA-cam. The other tracks are "Vercetti Forever" and "The Doc Will See You Now" by Backing Track, there's a link to their site in the description.
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.
I had my 6700K at 5 ghz for about 6 months, few people believed it and wanted to test the rig for themselves. The problem being though that temperatures were an issue, I dialed back to 4,8 ghz while I was gaming on it and reverted to default when it was being used as a game server. At 5 ghz it was an absolute beast and crunched everything in its path, of course, it started to show its age but to me ... 140 fps or 280 fps .... I don´t really care. Anything above 90 fps is fine ... for me.
What are your settings? Just curious as I've been running it all core 4.5 ghz @ 1.325V since 2016 non-stop, but I'm starting to need some extra oomph and I can't upgrade right now :)
@@alexg9155 Don´t have the rig anymore, donated it to a senior who wanted to get into the digital world. Took a lot of fiddling though and didn´t do it alone.
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!
picked up an 1660v3 which is an exact copy of 5960x, this goes easy 4.5ghz at 1.25v and 3200 ram whereas my 6800k picked for £33 earlier this year does only 4.1ghz stable at 1.25v and only 3000 for ram
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
@6:01 I definitely like high FPS in a flight sim. For airliners and general aviation a slower frame rate is ok because the flight goes at quite a lax pace. For flying an F18 through valleys or aerobatics in the Pitts special you really do want at least 60 FPS, and more is always better. I saw DCS on one of your videos, and I'm just here to implore to get into it, because it awesome and secondly just so I can see it in your benchmark results.
Yeah, the X99 board isn’t accurately reporting consumption. I took a wall reading of 215w during Cinebench, compared to 272w for the i7-5930K and 361w for the 5960X
i managed to overclock my xeon 2699 v4 in the bios just by disabling the first 2 cores, basically with all cores active it fails to post if i edit ram timings, voltages or any other cpu clock parameter, perhaps this might be a similar issue? it also happens using a gigabyte board, my x99 soc champion, using the latest bios, perhaps it's an issue with the gigabyte bios
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.
That's weird with your G1 board. I also had a Gigabyte x99 Phoenix and a 6800k and I was able to overclock it to 4.4ghz with a -2 AVX offset. Tho.... I ended up selling that board + CPU two days before Zen 2 was released. I think I had some trouble getting some settings to hold. IIRC, I had to increase or disable as many power limits as I could.
Good luck on your search for a 6950x. I came away with one to upgrade my x99 system entirely out of dumb luck. The seller was a shop and listed it as cheap because it was a "customer returned item" and they didn't have a way to sanity check the CPU. Thankfully, I was able to pick it up and it arrived working just fine. Gave some staying power to the system in question, for sure. That said, x99 as a platform really wasn't a fan of pushing high ddr4 memory clocks. I wouldn't be surprised if the thing holding back core clock was the added thermals of handling four channels of ddr4 3200.
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.
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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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. :)
Keep up the great work good sir!
Thanks! 😄
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 🤣🤣
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
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.
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
This is the CPU I use daily, it does the job for me despite catching a lot of flak online, cheers for the video
If broadwell was more affordable like the current CPUs it would’ve been a gem of a generation. The 6900k retailed at $1000.00
Great video! Good job👍
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 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!!
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.
1:08 maybe like 7 years ago, nowadays you're better off with intel XTU or just simple ol throttle stop
Man, i just can't get board of ,,The doc will see you now"! It's such an epic banger! :D (Doing good, keep it up)
The intel 6700 Sky Lake was also 14nm and is still a very usable and capable CPU when paired with something like a RTX 2070 Super, running on a B150 Gaming MB easily running AAA games. Been running mine since the end of 2015 upgraded the graphics card a few months ago and still using it as a second machine and back up system.
Would you recommend that 6700K for something more than games. I'm looking at used build that I found with gtx 1080 and 32gb ddr4. Planning to use it for photo/video editing, cause I am really wasting my time with my current laptop.
@@nikolaramcevic if that's all you have its not a bad setup. Still very usable for audio/video production /editing
6700 with only LGA 1151 \ 6800k and 6950x lga 2011-v3
👍🏆 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.
Can you please try the higher version of this "6950X"
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
I'm from europe and an used i5 from 7 years ago can be more expensive than the 12400F. Same with mainboards.
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
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.
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 like the epic music with casual horse riding
Where/ what version of intel xtu did you download, the version I’m trying wont work
i still have mine, running 4.2 since day one almost. i just changed my 1070 for a 4070ti and it works perfectly
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.
I had this chip. 6000 series were known for being poor overclockers compared to 5000 series
been using the i7 6800K since 2016 and could edit 6k blackmagic file easily with RTX3070. Play all the games.. one of my 16 GB RAM sticks died so looking to replace it.. looking forward to upgrading to i9 13900K when I can no longer use my current one. I recommend to buy a top tier cpu, which will last you for more than 5 years.
Did you OC your 6800K?
no. I have not cos place where i live is quite hot and humid and I want to retain it's useful life.@@trg78lji43r
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.
Just bought a z440 with xeon e5 1650v4 (same as the i7-6850k).
I remember dreaming about the 6900K back when I had an i3 4170
3:12 if I remember, Haswell and Broadwell eDRAM was slightly different than Skylake-based eDRAM in more ways than capacity. In Haswell/Broadwell CPUs the eDRAM was a “L4” victim cache, while in Skylake-based CPUs it was more of a buffer between the CPU and the memory
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
Broadwell was notoriously finnicky when OCing, and that made people really concerned about Skylake
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
Still using my i7 6800k and GTX 1080 I purchased in 2016. Have mine running at 4 GHz at 1.3v
There was a period of about 2ish years if i remember right where a Windows update didn't let you overclock due to the spectre meltdown vulnerability. Board manufacturers released bios updates to fix this.
what would be a nice upgrade if you had the chance? i have the same exact config, but plan on getting a better monitor, like de odyssey g8
@jorgeruedamd1441 I'm planning on keeping my current cpu and mobo for a few more years. I've already upgraded my gpu since it has been showing its age recently and i can carry the new one easily to a newer mobo/cpu later. Also taking advantage of ssd prices and fully upgraded to only ssd's (2tb nvme, and 4 sata ssds). Gonna wait and see what the cpu market looks like in a few years. Don't wanna jump into a current socket that won't be supported.
I still use i7 6850k with asus rampage v mobo. Still a beast of a cpu even today !!!
Nex Machina soundtrack in the Background 😎
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.
Still running my 8086K, its a 8700K binned by Intel, which for me was only $20 over the 8700K. Mine happily sits at 5.2GHZ allcore 1.25V Vcore on open loop. Great little cpu. Paired with my EVGA 1080ti Black which clocks just over 2ghz, also on water, A Z390 Aorus Pro MB, 32G Corsair 3600 mhz ram this old PC is still going strong.
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. 🤣
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
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.
5820k 6 Core also runs 4,2 - 4,5 GHz on generation before. 350€
8:40 is it 1440p Ultra or High Iceberg Man?!? Haha
Great video
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
I skipped on many upgrade possibilities, when my i7-6800K was my main rig.
Didn´t settle for anything, till the Ryzen 9 3900X, but my kinda early X570 board is a disgrace, compared to newer B550 boards in overall feature set.
Isn't the i5-4690k and lga1151 socket?
At 1:33 you mention that you used it with the same motherboard Harwell-e lineup so I'm a little confused..
It's 1150, but yes.
I added the i5 to the on-screen text because it's a list of the CPUs I've tested at 4.5GHz, and it's listed with the i7-5930K and i7-5960X because they're all the same 22nm Haswell architecture.
The voiceover clashes with that somewhat, because I don't mention the i5. I'm talking about the issues I had trying to OC the 6800K to 4.5, despite older CPUs on the same socket being more than capable of clocking that high.
Sorry for the confusion!
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.
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 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.
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
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?
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.
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...
great videos as usual
Thank you so much for the awesome video! I was wondering what is the fantastic music that you use in this?
The intro track is "808 Doorbell Chime" by Unicorn Heads, which can be found here on UA-cam. The other tracks are "Vercetti Forever" and "The Doc Will See You Now" by Backing Track, there's a link to their site in the description.
Amazing video!!! I love your content!!!!
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
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.
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.
you should try the 2699 v3 or the 2696 v4, with prices falling, those might not be bad cpus for productivity or vms
I had my 6700K at 5 ghz for about 6 months, few people believed it and wanted to test the rig for themselves. The problem being though that temperatures were an issue, I dialed back to 4,8 ghz while I was gaming on it and reverted to default when it was being used as a game server. At 5 ghz it was an absolute beast and crunched everything in its path, of course, it started to show its age but to me ... 140 fps or 280 fps .... I don´t really care. Anything above 90 fps is fine ... for me.
What are your settings? Just curious as I've been running it all core 4.5 ghz @ 1.325V since 2016 non-stop, but I'm starting to need some extra oomph and I can't upgrade right now :)
@@alexg9155 Don´t have the rig anymore, donated it to a senior who wanted to get into the digital world. Took a lot of fiddling though and didn´t do it alone.
@@AurioDK Ah well, thanks for replying and kudos for donating it.
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!
picked up an 1660v3 which is an exact copy of 5960x, this goes easy 4.5ghz at 1.25v and 3200 ram whereas my 6800k picked for £33 earlier this year does only 4.1ghz stable at 1.25v and only 3000 for ram
will my i5 6400 work with an rx 5500 xt 8 gb ?
Dude really needs an better motherboard and take his time with overclocking and even maybe hire someone to teach him.
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
Ahh the OC-Bug with Broadwell-E, i think the Specter and Meltdown patches had something to do with that.
@6:01 I definitely like high FPS in a flight sim. For airliners and general aviation a slower frame rate is ok because the flight goes at quite a lax pace. For flying an F18 through valleys or aerobatics in the Pitts special you really do want at least 60 FPS, and more is always better. I saw DCS on one of your videos, and I'm just here to implore to get into it, because it awesome and secondly just so I can see it in your benchmark results.
what voltage were you running on the 6800k, its barely consuming like 25w in many games, or is there some bug and its showing wrong?
Yeah, the X99 board isn’t accurately reporting consumption. I took a wall reading of 215w during Cinebench, compared to 272w for the i7-5930K and 361w for the 5960X
it has to be wrong no way that is real😂
i managed to overclock my xeon 2699 v4 in the bios just by disabling the first 2 cores, basically with all cores active it fails to post if i edit ram timings, voltages or any other cpu clock parameter, perhaps this might be a similar issue? it also happens using a gigabyte board, my x99 soc champion, using the latest bios, perhaps it's an issue with the gigabyte bios
And how does this cpu compare to a ryzen 1600x
i am using a i7 3770 with a lga 775 cooler on a board that doesnt support lga 775 coolers
Can u review i7 - 8700?
Would love to! Might be a while yet though, budget constraints 😕
Damn, this guy is churning out quality here. Love it!
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
would this cpu work in dual x99 motherboard , like dual 6800k for 12 core total?
Finally, some new X99 material. Happiness!
Bit of dirt floating around on the lens on the right. Especially when you are rolling b-die on the CPU
Is it overclocked results or stock for all of those FPS comparison to other cpu's?
your displayed wattage seems off with aroudn 20Watts while gaming. How much volts did you push and whats the estimated real power draw?
Yes, I wrote a pinned comment about that. I measured total system consumption at about 215w during Cinebench.
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.
Common iceberg win
That's weird with your G1 board. I also had a Gigabyte x99 Phoenix and a 6800k and I was able to overclock it to 4.4ghz with a -2 AVX offset. Tho.... I ended up selling that board + CPU two days before Zen 2 was released.
I think I had some trouble getting some settings to hold. IIRC, I had to increase or disable as many power limits as I could.
i would love to see a video with the 6950x soon :)
Good luck on your search for a 6950x. I came away with one to upgrade my x99 system entirely out of dumb luck. The seller was a shop and listed it as cheap because it was a "customer returned item" and they didn't have a way to sanity check the CPU. Thankfully, I was able to pick it up and it arrived working just fine. Gave some staying power to the system in question, for sure.
That said, x99 as a platform really wasn't a fan of pushing high ddr4 memory clocks. I wouldn't be surprised if the thing holding back core clock was the added thermals of handling four channels of ddr4 3200.
Very good intro it's like a bit hardware heroin for me now 😂
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.
Mine died today after 8 years. Rip to my first cpu we had a nice run