Search the Community

Don't do a lot of gaming, developer using visual studio, some Adobe products. Currently have 2600 and got a good deal on i7 6800k. What is a solid MB for the i7 6800k? Thanks.

Hi, I build a system for on December last year using the following components: Asus ROG Strix X99 Gaming i7 6800k Corsair 2x8gb 2666 mjz Corsair H110i Samsung EVO 256gb Seagate 1tb HDD Corsair Hx850i EVGA GTX 1070 FTW Windows Home 64bit I manage to overclock the cpu to 4 ghz using the motherboard XMP option and just sync all cores to 40 with BLCK frequency set at 100. That was in last December, the system was running fine and I can game and edit on it. Last Friday the PC display notification saying that there is overclocking failure and force me to go to BIOS. I load optimal setting in the BIOS and it continue to BSOD. it can completely boot to windows only if I set the cpu back to its factory core clock and it seems to work fine at that but if I try to overclock it to even 3.7ghz, it will go to BSOD. Since most of the components are still under warranty, can anyone help me what causes this so I can RMA the component? Many thanks before hand.

I've almost finished planning my custom water loop, but I have a few questions that I couldn't find answers for online (I'm cooling two GTX 1080 Tis and an i7 6800K). First of all, I saw a JayzTwoCents video where his PC (Skunkworks) has very thin-looking fittings between each GPU. So far I'm looking at EK-ACF fittings, but they look much bigger than the ones in Jay's build (and other builds I've seen online). I currently have the GPUs with a 3-slot separation, so are these thin fittings required? Secondly, I'm thinking of mixing distilled water with EK-Ekoolant Pastel White. Is this a good choice, and how long should I wait before changing the fluid once it's in the system? Finally, I'm deciding between Noctua NF-F12 120mm and Corsair SP120 Quiet Edition 120mm fans. The Noctua fans are a bit more expensive, so is it really worth the £7/$9 price difference per fan? Thanks in advance.

So I just bought an i7 6800k processor (which is stable at 4.4Ghz, tried it at 4.2/.0 and stock(temperature at 4.4ghz is only 40 degrees under load with an H115i from corsair)); 32GB at 3000mgz ram; A X99A Sli Plus motherboard from MSI and 2x gtx 1070s, I did buy one of them as the OC version and one of them as the standard as I wanted to test them out and see the difference for myself. When I go into valley the framerate caps at around 30fps no matter if it's on ultra or low, tried running witcher 3 on lowest settings, I only get 60fps, same as if I ran it at max settings. Same goes for Heaven and Cinebench (Open GL not CPU) which gave me the same result as my last setup which was an i5 2500k OCd to 4.5ghz with an R9 390 and only 12GB of ram at 1300mhz. It's been a very long day for me of trying to install and uninstall and re-install drivers over and over, my (Windows 10 pro) decided to die at one point and I had to restore it, completely wiped everything and installed it on a M.2 Drive. I did make sure to use the right PCIE lanes on my mobo for sli too... I just don't know what to do.. Edit: The temps on the card above are 42 degrees Celsius normally and around 58 under load. They are both the Asus Rog Strix 1070s (just one is the OC version and one is not). Edit 2: I have also tried running with only one GPU, same results. Edit 3: Clarified that it was the Open GL result that was the same as my previous setup and not the CPU test.

Well, I few days back I bought a new system with MSI Godlike Gaming Carbon edition and Intel 6800K. I was thinking if anyone can help me overclock it. Using the MSI Command Centre, I overclocked it to 3.9(ish) GHz, with Multipliers set to 40x, Core voltage 1.27V, Base Clock 100 MHz. Can any of you just tell me the procedures of overclocking the 6800K on this motherboard? or may be give me some links to learn it from. Because Tom's Hardware is not for Noobs like me.

"http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117649&cm_re=i7_6800k-_-19-117-649-_-Product"

A i7 6800K processor cooled by a Noctua NH-D15s with Corsair Dominator Platinum 4x8GB 3k DDR4 RAM on a Asus X99-A II mobo. Graphics run by a EVGA FTW GTX 1080 and all powered by the EVGA SuperNova 850G2. Stuff is saved on two Samsung 850 PRO 512GB SSD's and everything now lives in a Fractal Design Define R5 case. Additionally there's the Pioneer optical drive and a Lexar SD card reader and one extra noctua fan to help with the cooling. Currently I've got an Asus ROG PG27AQ 4k monitor with that and a borrowed keyboard while waiting for my Corsair K95 RGB to arrive. Uses: Photo and video editing, gaming, coding. Why: Because. Update plans: Swap out the 1080 next year for 1080ti- or Titan XP- or Quadro-SLI, add two more monitors and eventually change all the fans to Noctua industrial ones. Feel free to judge.

So I've been running my cpu stock, but today I decided to OC a bit. All I did was disable turbo, and change core 0 and 1 multiplier to 42 (which bios said should be 4.2ghz) and left all the other cores at x38. When I get into windows, it shows the cpu wont go over its stock 3.4 ghz. Yet in intel XTU it shows the multiplier for all my cores is set to 42 yet still only gets up to 3.4ghz. This confuses me even more, the fact that its showing different settings then I chose, and the fact its showing high multiplier at stock speed. Never had an issue like this before... but it is my first time ocing intel since 3570k. Thanks in advance! Update: Just noticed in XTU it shows my non turbo multiplier is still at 34x. Time to go find where in Bios the regular multiplier is lol...

Hello there, just wanted to ask, what I should do, because I am not that much of a tech guy. I have a PC with an i5 4670k and a GTX 980 and as I could often hear, that my games could perform better with an i7-CPU. So I decided to upgrade, but like in a really big way. I thought about buying an i7 6800k. But just today I read somewhere, that there will be new 6-core CPUs in Q2 2017. Now the question: Would the i7 6800k be a good thing to buy or should I wait for the upcomming CPUs ? (Wanted to buy next week already, but I can wait) Some answers would be great. (Update: I aim for 1440p and 165fps)

Hi everyone! I am planning to overclock my CPU (i7 6800k) and I want to get the most of it. I prefer air cooling (no price limit) which will work with mine setup. I was looking at "noctua nh-d15", can I get with it 4.5 GHz? Specs are as listed below: i7-6800k msi gtx 1080 armor oc msi x99a raider fractal design define r5 crucial ballstix sport ddr4 corsair rm750x 750w intel air cooling ts13a (air cooling which I have right now) Any and all input is appreciated. Thanks!

Hello, I have tried using my current profile on two separate versions of bios, two separate windows installs on separate drives and still no results. The cpu core voltage is detected but no extra clocks and my cpu no longer even hits 3.8ghz. Specs 500GB M.2. / 500GB Sata SSD used in testing i7 6800k (On Custom loop with 560Mm rad for itself.) GTX980x2 ASUS Sabertooth X99 EVGA 2133Mhz ram 16GB OC: 4.00GHZ 1.25V CPU Core

Hi I cant Oc my cpu i change the ratio in bios to 4.2ghz but when i boot the windows it showe me 3.6ghz i7 6800k Motherboard X99-E I made album My OC Imgur.com https://imgur.com/a/pdcKF4q

so im looking to buy a pc (used) and i have 2 options that i cant decide between which both has i7 6800k with an asus x99 mb but one has a (32gb ddr4 ram and Asus strix gtx 1070) and the other one has (16bgs ddr4 ram and Asus strix gtx 1070ti) now the 16gbs with the 1070ti build is 140$ less than the 32gbs one , but i wanna know ! am i missing on alot of performance if i went with the cheaper build ? (1070ti & 16gbs) ps : im buying this pc mainly for gaming and programming and i might start a youtube channel for (Ai stuff) so i will be doin some video editing too. any advice will be highly appreciated <3

Hey folks, I've been browsing the internet for days now and I am afraid my CPU may has gone bad. I recently had Overclocked my i7 6800K to 4,1GHz on 1,27VCore, all fine and max temp in prime95 was 85C'ish (on air), then I wanted to test stability and used blend test but it failed after 2-3 minutes with a rounding error, so I decided to downclock but the problem persisted, I thought it may be the ram so I loaded Optimized Defaults and tried again, it still kept failing and ALWAYS on the same two cores and now instantly when the test starts, I tried only using one ram stick but for all four I got the same result. I then ran Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool which says it was all fine but blend and small fft kept failing the same two cores... I really don't know what to do because I remember testing with prime95 for max temps with that cooler and nothing failed, this was on stock too. One thought was that the oc settings applied by the mobo had fried the fpu in that two cores, I left everything on auto except of VCore and Cache Voltage because I overclocked that too but never went above 1,3V on VCore and never above 1.2'ish on cache. I also tried the overclock preset when starting to oc because I thought that would be safe but it bumped Core to 1,5V and it didn't even boot so I did it manually with fully manual mode enabled still everything on auto except VCore and Cache. Can it be that the fpu on that two cores went bad because of oc? With one stick it managed about a minute before the workers stopped but its always the same two, I will try different ram tommorow because I ordered some trident z rgb ram but small fft shouldn't fail because of ram or can it? I also tried prime95 on a ubuntu live usb stick but nothing changed. I would be really thankful for replies, greetings from germany ^^ System Specs: Motherboard: Asus Strix X99 Gaming BIOS 1801 CPU: i7 6800K RAM: Kingston HyperX Predator 3333Mhz PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro11 Prime95 newest version PS: Also tried Intel Processor Diagnostic Tools Burn In Test which lasts 120 minutes and it passed Math, Prime Number and Floating Point, shouldn't an Intel Tool be reliable?

So if a post exists i haven't yet found it, but earlier last summer I got my first gaming rig which i customized and bought form cyber power (probably a mistake I know). it's a pretty solid system that should be able to handle most games on ultra and id say everything on high, however on most games i play i tend to get this odd frame stuttering. i typically try to get my games capped at 144 frames or turn on v-sync, as turning it off sees to make it worse.usually running about 144 or 110-120ish on games running high/ultra but they sage down to 50 for less and the game play turns choppy. Here's my specs of course and yes my drivers are update date, and any other info needed to hep i can probably produce: GPU:Zotac AMP GTX 1080 CPU: i76800k @ 3.4 Ghz -- Cooled with corsair h90 140mm liquid cooler MOBO: gigabyte x99 ultra gaming RAM: corsair vengeance 4x 4GB 2800 Hz DISPLAY: ASUS VG248QE 24" Full HD 1920x1080 144Hz 1ms (dvi-d connection which I'll switch to DPI soon) Main drive: 240GB Western Digital SSD Bulk storage and game drive: Western Digital 1TB HDD PSU: Corsair CS850M gold certified (850w) *** I Do not over clock as im not really experienced with it and don't want to fry my system though i do have the capabilities of doing so. any tips or possible solutions are, of course, greatly appreciated!

So basically, my motherboards usb ports crapped out, so I have to get a replacement (or alternative) and rebuild the whole rig. I've also decided to get a new case, maybe you guys can help me decide the best parts for rest of build as well. See below to see current setup, I'll put (NEW) by the stuff I can still send back and potentially replace. My goal is to basically just build a superbadass pc that will last me a few years without needing to upgrade anything except GPU. So if you guys see an opportunity to spend A LITTLE bit more for something higher performance, please let me know. Speaking of GPU I really want the EVGA ftw hybrid 1080, just waiting on amazon to stock them. Current Setup: EVGA 1000 watt platinum PSU Amazon Page (PSU) NZXT Phantom full tower Case Page CD rom no one cares about Noctua fans blah blah Samsung 850 Pro 512gb SSD Page Asus x99-a ii Motherboard (USB ports failed) (NEW) Mobo Page MSI seahawk gtx 1080 (Newish) GPU Link I7 6800K (NEW) CPU Page G.Skill Memory (NEW) RAM Page Corsair H115i CPU liquid cooler (NEW) Cooler Page Setup I'm considering: 1)Corsair Carbide Series Air 740 Cube Case 2)ASUS ROG STRIX x99 Gaming Motherboard Motherboard Page 3)Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360mm AIO Enthusiast Liquid Cooling System New Liquid Cooler (ANY BETTER SUGGESTIONS FOR 360MM CLOSED LOOP RADIATOR?) Now for my reasoning, please correct me if I'm wrong or anyone has better suggestions. 1) Definitely getting new case to be more compatible with radiators, I had to hang my H115I with zip ties... 2) Thinking about swapping boards just because it seems like the x99-a ii have QC issues more then the other ASUS boards, and I DO NOT want to assemble my pc again to have something stupid fail within 3 hours. I really like the OC socket on ASUS boards so I'm going to stick with them. 3) Thinking about getting a new water cooler B/C corsair link was using 10% of my cpu (BF4 only uses ~%40), even after restarting my pc Corsair Link was still using anywhere from 7-15% cpu just running in the background (note I was idling on desktop with no programs running), after reformatting my PC (LOL!) it fixed it... for now. But makes me reluctant to stick with corsair, and I BELIEVE that I will have better cooling performance with the 360mm thermaItake system. In closing, I would REALLY appreciate a recommendation on best X99 motherboard for stability and OC capability, I could care less about most of the extra features. Also, I'm after the BEST closed loop 360mm or 280mm radiator. Sorry for the mess, I bolded a little here and there to help. Thanks a million to anyone who contributes! UPDATE: After more research and watching some in depth reviews, I decided to just get the new case, and upgrade to x99 deluxe motherboard, mainly because it has better heat-sinks, the fact that I had bad luck with the a ii, and hoping it has better build quality and/or QC. With the rest of the money, I want to upgrade storage performance, do you guys think I should invest in NVME drive or just get another 850 in raid 0. I'm open to any ideas/suggestions, thanks in advance!!

Hi. I need a need processor for my pc but i'm not sure which one I should buy. I've asked before about i7 5930k vs 5820k vs 6700k vs 6800k, and many was said i7 6700k or 6800k. I'm not sure which one i should get so I hope that you can help me. I'm mostly gaming and video editing, but 90% is gaming. My plan in the future is maybe to video editing in adobe premiere pro cc but i'm not sure yet. i'm also looking for a good cooler to the processor, so maybe have some suggestions. Thanks in advance.

Hi. I have been asking before about i7 5930k vs i7 5820k vs i7 5700k vs i7 5800k, and many of you were saying i7 6700 or i7 6800k. So i'm just asking one more time if I should get the 6700k or 6800k. Most of my time i'll be using it for gaming or video rendering, but mostly gaming. Maybe you also have some suggestions about some motherboards (LGA 2011-3 or LGA 1151) maybe also some suggestions regarding RAM? Thanks in advance ;D

I'm looking to build my new Motion-Design PC. The programs which I will use are mostly Rendering with CPU (After Effects, Cinema4D, Nuke...) and not GPU (Octane). CPU: Intel Core i7 6800K (LGA 2011-v3, 3.40GHz, Unlocked) Graphics Card: ASUS GTX 1070 STRIX O8G-GAMING (GP104, 8GB) Motherboard: ASUS X99-A II (LGA 2011-v3, Intel X99, ATX) RAM: Corsair Vengeance LED (4x, 8GB, DDR4-3000) (Probably gonna upgrade to 8x8GB later?) Storage 1: Samsung 950 Pro (256GB, M.2 2280) Storage 2: Samsung 850 EVO Basic (1000GB, 2.5") Power Supply: Corsair RM850x (850W) CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Case: Corsair Carbide 400C Operating System: Windows 10 This is the list of the shop in Switzerland where I'm going to buy all the components (I already have the 1TB SSD and the Case): https://www.digitec.ch/de/ShopList/Show?shopListId=4313EDC2C81D3099040A00ADDF79FBDB So my questions to this build are: Is this Motherboard a good choice and is the RAM compatible with it? Is the Power Supply good, or would the RM750x be strong enough? Is the GTX 1070 good enough for Octane, should I buy me a GTX 1080 or even wait until the 1070/1080 Ti comes out?

I am trying to build a gaming PC that will double as a animation and video editing rig. I also want it to be portable so I can take it to my friends house and have LAN parties and the like as a am a bit of a social gamer. I am using a i76800k on a asrock x99e-itx/ac board. The case i want to use is the silver-stone ml07b. The mother board comes with a cooler but because its server-grade (so I've heard) I am afraid of the noise. If you can help it would be very appreciated.

So I have been running into small issues up to now, little crash and reboot here, error there, nothing that worried me. I have been trying to fix a crashing issue that I didn't think much of, so I ran some tests and I thought it was my PSU. I thought this because I could reproduce the error if I loaded the CPU and the GPU at the same time. It would crash and reboot. I was going to request RMA of my power supply today but I realized I hadn't run mem test yet. So I said why not and ran it. It ran through once and gave no errors. Went for the second pass and it locked up. Full system hang. It didn't give an error just a freeze. After I did a bit of research I think it might be the CPU's memory controller. If anyone could confirm this or give me something else to test or try I would be grateful. Thanks in advance! SPECS! i7 6800k Asus X99A Usb 3.1 Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 MHz (XMP) 32GB 4x8Gb (I bought the kits at separate times so maybe this has something to do with it although I doubt it as they were bought about a month or two apart) GTX 660 EVGA 750 watt semi-modular PSU (B2 or something like that)

I Understand that this CPU does not have integrated graphics and will therefore not be able to play games, but that is not the point right now. I am a first time builder who will be selling 2 Apple computers in order to fund it. I know exactly what parts I want to put in the computer but by the time I have gotten rid of my other computers (hopefully this weekend) the graphics card I want (EVGA 1080 FTW Hybrid) does not seem to be available. For the time being will I be able to build the rest of the PC and use it just for browsing the internet and watching mkv files on vlc without a dedicated GPU or will that not work because a PC requires some kind of graphics card be it integrated or discrete? The machine will eventually be for playing games, editing videos and hopefully even some game creation when I learn how, I just don't want to have nothing while I wait for the GPU to be available.

I was wondering if I should get an i7800k or a xeon E5-2620 v4 for my new build. The multi core performance of the xeon is ~30.000 vs the i7 ~20.000 but will I be able get a good OC on the xeon? Both CPU's cost around the same price in my area so I would like to know your opinion. P.S. can I use ddr4 with the xeon?

hello, I have a asus x99-a which supports 28 lane cpus with x16 for the first card and x8 for the second. my question is will my i7 6800k bottleneck my 2 evgas 1080's with this motherboard ? I will post a picture from my motherboard so that you can see what it actually supports but I am suspicious that it will cost many Frames for Gaming.. hopefully you can help me out and btw please put no effort in it to ask me why I am bought this or that instead of.. Thanks

Hello! I have a hard choice to make... I can´t decide if I should get the new i7 6800k or the i7 6700k for my rig. I would pair it with the RoG Strix Gaming X99 MoBo for the 6 core and a MSI Gaming pro Carbon ( or another one, not too sure ) for the 4 core. This is about me upgrading from: My current Rig: GPU: R9 390 Asus Strix CPU: i7 3770 (Cooled with BeQuiet silent rock) MoBo: A crappy old mini ATX board from Gigabyte. RAM: Some extremely ugly bare bones green pcb RAM Storage: 3 year old 120GB Kingston SSD and 3 year old 1TB WD Green PSU: Thermaltake 750W 80+ Bronze Sound Card: Asus Xonar D2X Case: Enthoo Evolv ATX ( Phanteks ) My planned set up: GPU: R9 390 Asus Strix CPU: i7 6800k / 6700k (Cooled by H110i GTX 280mm for overclocking) MoBo: X99 Asus Strix Gaming / MSI Z170 Gaming pro Carbon RAM: 16 GB of 2666 MHz DDR4 Kingston HyperX Fury Storage: 2x 480GB HyperX Savage SSDs in Raid 0 and a SAMSUNG 950 pro M.2 for my OS (might be little overkill) PSU: Thermaltake 750W 80+ Bronze Sound Card: Asus Xonar D2X Case: Enthoo Evolv ATX ( Phanteks ) As you can see I plan on upgrading not building a completely new machine. I think I´ll be fine with my not so old GPU my ( pretty amazing ) Case, the Sound Card and PSU. If that isn´t the case please comment on that topic aswell. I plan on doing frequent video editing and high quality picture manipulation. And the CPU should be able to handle many demanding programs without comprimise. Such as Rendering Gaming Recording and so on... I have the money to go for the i7 6800k but I can´t seem to figure out if it´ll be an impact on my gaming experience. I see the 6700k has better single core performance and that has me worried. If the i7 6800k only has about 5-10 fps less in a few games then I´ll be ok with it but otherwise it will bother me. I have a 144Hz Monitor, that is why I need all the FPS I can get. I will overclock my chip ( probably not to max but to ~4.1 GHz if I get the 6800k) will it then be able to alsmost match single core performance speed ? Thanks to all who try to help in advance! I´d appreciate your advice! P.S: I´m from Austria.