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Well spending $50 on an extra cooler, buying a Z series Motherboard (ik B and H arent out but still price is high), and no BLK OC past skylake, Id say not a good deal..

Again, X series motherboards were pretty expensive at least when I checked..

Really? I looked into the Lga1366 series ones and unfortunately X59 Mobos are hella expensive.. Those 6 core babies are certainly a bargain if the Mobos werent $300.

Well yea but just saying, every1 likes money and these guys found it easier to simply make a ransom ware.

Whats the profit? Theres manufacturing costs.

I know, but thanks to BLK Overclocking, I OCed it to 3.9GHz and only run a bit slower than a stock 6700K, I simply would like to see if I can get it on Par. The reason I got this was because I'm a poor student and unfortunately I cant afford a brand new 7700k (best consumer grade CPU when I purchased this). Heck I even use a cheap method to SLI my 2 750 Tis, but thanks for the advice, I originally looked into buying used xeons but sometimes the boards were just too expensive if I wanted a non-Server/Workstation Mobo.

Also Id honestly spend a bit more on this build for the K series CPU because 1. Its a Z Series Mobo and 2. U got a nice cooler for a CPU a stock cooler can cool...

Any reason for the Vega over an Nvidia Alt? Just curious

Well do u like money?

Jesus, thats a lot of SSDs..... Can I get some for free lol

Hello Everyone at LTT Forums, I currently own a QHQG which is basically a Q0 stepping ES version of the 6700K, its was still a good deal after ryzen and coffelake but I picked it up this summer for $100 and I have the L506 revision of the chip so according to statistics has a 70% of achieving a BLK OC over 4GHz and at the moment, I have 3.9 GHz stable with 24x Mult. and 158.3Base Clock speed with RAM from 2400-->2600 (the computer fails to boot after if I lower it to 2400 and I realized the cache somehow jumps up). When I turn it up to ~~166 BaseC, it would give me a blue screen shortly after I boot. I may have reached a barrier for OC but I want to try for a 4.0GHz OC to stock 6700k speeds. I messaged a few successful 4.2GHz overclockers on overclock.net and one recommended me update the BIOS from the currently 2.8P I had. I learned from Brian @ Tech Yes City that p2.8 was the only bios that works on my Asrock z170 Pro4 mobo but I am reading some other posts saying ES chips should work on any Mobo/bios that supports production run of the chips. Can anyone with experience with these ES Skylakes let me know if these will work on later bios revision and if you notice something weird with my settings let me know?

Hello So currently I have an HP Proliant SE316M1 (basically DL160 G6) and I wanna use it as a rendering server in my room. The main issue is the rackmount server's fans which are usually a vacuum cleaner if not worse... I want to install a few aftermarket coolers for the CPU and an extra fan or two for the overall system cooling taking off the top lid. However before I buy my parts, does anyone know if I can make these things boot without fans in? Or maybe short a pin to make it think its in? Any insight will be appreciated.

Mobo pricing..

1. Money 2. Raw performance 3. Money

Not only hard but expensive lol.. AMD can OC on cheap mobos but not intel..