KazInVan

Definitely not.

Macs are definitely less susceptible to malware.

Very Nice, glad you got it up to your satisfaction, AMD is really a great platform its not as seemless as intel and take a good deal of tweaking but it works. I took days to get every bit of performance out of my 2700x. I ended up @ 3400Mhz on my memory from 3000Mhz and I dropped timings a little and I also put a offset under volt on my CPU even on custom water I would get up in the high 70c and the CPU was hitting 1.52v when i knew it didn't need that to get up to 4.3Ghz so I got it down to 1.42v @ 4.3Ghz and it runs great.
 
My next upgrade is going to be the 3950x when it finally comes out. I do alot of video transcoding and rendering so more cores for me will be great, I don't game as much as I use to but when I do I just play 4k 60. I have multiple VM's running on my PC for different tasks and such so its a very rounded system. For the price compaired to Intel you cannot beat it.

Thanks, I'm happy with the result.  Definitely not as seamless as Intel, that platform seems far more tolerant of ram timings, etc. Still, nice to see a good bump in performance overall.  Now I can finally install the rest of my software
 
Thanks for your help.
 
The 3950X looks like a monster, I'm sure that will crush video work.  I'm going to wait for 4000 series Ryzen and hopefully that will be a drop-in upgrade in 12-18 months.  That and a PCIE 4 SSD and I should be good for another performance bump. 
 
 
 

So since new gear was flawed too you will stop buying new gear?  That is just following your logic...

Pretty arrogant, that you can't even change your opinion on something. Also some of the "opinions" you share are flat out wrong factually like this
 
All you have to do is check recent completed listings on eBay and see that the 6700K sells for above $200 USD regularly, so obviously you have no idea what the value of these used parts are but you share your incorrect "opinion" on the matter anyways. I wish I could even find a B150 board for $30.
 
@KazInVan These old skylake chips sell pretty quick, if you put it up for auction starting at like $150 people will pile in fast

Used GPUs I've run in the last two years:
1060, 1070, 1050 ti, 290x, 980 ti, 980 ti, 480, 1060, 980 ti, 390x, 980 ti, 390, 580, 1080 ti, 1080, Vega 56, 1660 ti
 
Used CPUs I've run in the last two years:
i7 830, 6800k, 6950x, fx6300, 5930x, i7 930, 8086k, i7 920, 1600, 9600k, 4370, G5400, 5820k, (and soon) 6950x 
 
All worked flawlessly, so I dunno what you're high on bro.  A CPU with a twenty year expected lifespan isn't going to decide it doesnt need to work anymore because it's a whole 3 years old.  Even heavily abused x58 chips still perform the same as they did on launch a decade ago.

Not everything is about you. 

Sounds very good. Much better than before^^
Those temp numbers (with that clock speed + Voltage) also sounds realistic now.

Overclocked to 4.4GHz now, was unstable with 1.26V so running at 1.3V now.  So far so good, prime95 running and temps right around 70C usually but jump at times to 75.

1. How much Voltage is on the Core under Load? (I do NOT Ask for "VID", that's something different)
 
2. Uninstall this utterly Garbage called "Asus Ai Suite 3". This pile of Trash gives you literaly nothing, except an instable System. It was the reason, my PC consumed 30-40 watt more in Idle, than it should've. OC is bad with this and shouldn't be used anyway, and everything else is doable in the UEFI.
Seriously, this Software does more harm than good.
Btw: The "CPU Temp" in Al Suite 3 is NOT the CPU CORE temperature, you see in HWMonitor. 2 entirely different things.

CPUs have 3 Temperature sensors.
- Cores themself
- directly under the Heatspreader (probably what Al Suite 3 shows you)
- CPU Package
 
You can see that in HW-Info 64. Scroll down, and you will see different CPU Temperature sensors, including for the Cores themself.
 
3. almost 100°C under load? Too weak cooling, or too high OC. WAY too much for having such an expensive AiO.
I have a 43€ Macho HR02 Rev B cooler (midrange air cooler), and in Prime 95 (27,9) cores barely break 70-75°C - @ 4.4 Ghz, and 1.264 Volt under Load. I don't want higher temps / louder fans, so is tick to 4.4 only.
For 4.5 Ghz i would already need 1.32 Volt~
 
You probably used "auto OC" settings form this crapshit-software?! Hope not.. Otherwise, this explains it. If you don't manually optimize voltage, many Motherboards put WAY TOO MUCH on it.
My Asus VIII Ranger puts in 1.35 Volt @ stock / Auto settings. While 1.15 - 1.18 would be perfectly stable. HUGE difference in temps.
 
I simply believe, you OCed too much, without testing before^^" And shooting way over the line with it.
 
 
4. I don't recommend any cooler, because you already have one. Nothing wrong with that.

From what I can see, the jump from Skylake to Kabylake will be quite small.  Same 14nm architecture, base clock of 4.2GHz vs 4.0Ghz for the Skylake, and I'm sure at a higher cost.  Other than the usual bump in performance, any other reason to wait for Kabylake?  Seems like the next big jump is Canonlake but that is a ways off still.