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He was on some form of maximus vi, however he had all kinds of random issues like it failing to post every other reboot. Not sure how much is his board and how much is cpu. His board was a bit rough when he got it from ebay. And the cpu further flattened out the pins. Plus I wonder how well a z87 board with a pre-broadwell bios supports the l4 cache. Basically as long as you don't use a gigabyte board these cpus should work to some degree out of the box. Based on his experience I can't recomend it as a daily chip however I've yet to test it on a proper z97 board. Need to convince him to send it to me for testing?
 
As for the IGP all intel HD graphics pre-lake chips can be overclocked. They've always had fully unlocked multiplier on z series boards until lga 1151 where the IGP is also locked on locked chips. (no bclk past 102.99 on locked skylake igp either as disabling the IME takes avx and igp with it). My friend managed this on water https://hwbot.org/submission/3978281_ 

I have a friend who has been messing with this chip recently, at least on his board it was semi unlocked. He had multiplier control up to 44x, however it also supported bclk straps (locked chips aren't supposed to have that) so he was able to set the 125 bclk strap and run 38x multiplier to get his chip to 4.8 on water for benching. Also got some "strong" igpu scores on it as it has a gpu just a bit slower than what the 5775c has as well as l4 cache. The difference is haswell clocks significantly better than broadwell cpus side and probably gpu side as well.

Unity is a good one to start, or also UE4 can be pretty straightforward with tutorials. I know when I was messing around with game design in HS UE4 was nice because I didn't actually know any code languages and the visual "coding" of blueprints is pretty straightforward if you can at least get the logic behind code. As for what's easy to learn, I'd say figure out what kind of games you want to make in general then figure out how to make those. Most types of single player experiences are gonna be easy enough to learn how to make a proof of concept although it will take a lot of time to make them look really polished. Either engine Unity or UE4 are good to start on and have lots of free assets out there, as well as some paid ones so you don't even have to know how to model to get started.

I estimate around 7 units of fast from this build

The wiki pages are written as a story. Pretty straightforward and easy read. Anything "easier" to read would be the same as watching a modern LTT vid hoping to find useful info on PC HW. Ie; devoid of any

Read the wiki pages for every intel and AMD cpu arch. It should be a pretty good read. That's how I learned most of what I have, will also be more informative than the average LTT vid  

Had a little fun this weekend with some liquid nitrogen and thought ya'll might be interested. Most of the weekend was spent sorting out weird board issues but I was able to boot 8 ghz on my fx 9590 which was pretty nice as you typically need to use in OS tools to overclock as well as pscheck to bin cores http://hwbot.org/submission/3937496_ Also got a few pics https://imgur.com/a/Izk7BJq 

I was too, I was just testing to see how good the chip was then it booted 7.8 easily and I figured why not just try to push 8 ghz. Initially it stopped scaling somewhere around 1.95v but after adjusting some secondaries it scaled up to 2.05 and I was able to boot 8 ghz with little effort. Sometime when I'm not so busy with other things I'll have to do a proper validation run on this chip, should do 8.5+.

Had a little fun this weekend with some liquid nitrogen and thought ya'll might be interested. Most of the weekend was spent sorting out weird board issues but I was able to boot 8 ghz on my fx 9590 which was pretty nice as you typically need to use in OS tools to overclock as well as pscheck to bin cores http://hwbot.org/submission/3937496_ Also got a few pics https://imgur.com/a/Izk7BJq 

I had it on a 1000w PSU just to be sure but it probably only pulled a few hundred watts from the wall. Didn't run anything crazy at 8 ghz since I didn't want to damage the chip (load at 2.05v would be pretty hard) but it definitely was a toasty chip. It used up probably 15-20l of ln2 in the span of a few hours and I wasn't even running anything heavy once I went for max frequency. It did also run 7.4 ghz on all cores for cinebench.

How many nuclear reactors were required to achieve that?

Had a little fun this weekend with some liquid nitrogen and thought ya'll might be interested. Most of the weekend was spent sorting out weird board issues but I was able to boot 8 ghz on my fx 9590 which was pretty nice as you typically need to use in OS tools to overclock as well as pscheck to bin cores http://hwbot.org/submission/3937496_ Also got a few pics https://imgur.com/a/Izk7BJq 

For L4 OC it really depends on the bench. Geekbench 3 only scaled a little (still hella worth) but hwbot prime (before it was without points) scaled a ton and scored like a 1 ghz faster 4770k. For any igpu benching it should also scale a ton just like memory (especially tertiary timings) scales. Other benches like superpi you'd expect to benefit a lot but I was unable to get it to properly take advantage of the l4.
 
As for delidding I've also done that as intel stock TIM sucks subzero so it was basically a requirement. I had zero issues using the rockit delid tool but you still should be careful as the die arrangement is kinda funky. I've got some pictures here, first chip is an APU I've delidded with my 2 razor method, second is 5775c which I used rockit tool https://imgur.com/a/S5gPP 

Just a heads up for that stage, it requires a system using ddr4 so broadwell probably won't work. Would hate for you to put hours into a score that won't count. It's a real shame too, my 5775c is chomping at the bit

So now they're coming q3 this year... I just emailed noctua about it and this is what they said. http://imgur.com/gallery/TKdFIYM/new