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hey, so i basically brought this cooler thinking it would give me better temperatures than my 2017 brought corsair H105 in Prime95 i use around 80 but with im getting stupid temps when doing anything minor 90-100degrees which makes the CPU Led on the motherboard come on. ive tried to turn it around on the motherboard itself no help same temps even when i put everything at 100% in the pvm settings. i'm thinking could it be a faulty cooler/pump? thanks

I am currently running 3000Mhz 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance RAM but after 5-6 years I am now experiencing crashes with my usual workflow due to lack of memory. I am begrudgingly looking to upgrade to 64GB so I can work uninhibited by hardware. I don't really game but I do a lot of cad modelling and Adobe CC related work. The motherboard is an ASUS Z170-PRO which can overclock upwards of 3866Mhz. Never bothered overclocking RAM and from what I have read there are not many reasons to do so. However, what speed of RAM is optimum for my i7-6700k and motherboard? My i7-6700k is overclocked using the 10% default overclock in the ASUS BIOS so presumably I will need to consider the effect faster RAM will have on the memory controller and future overclocking. Historically, 3200Mhz seems to be the sweet spot. Is there any benefit stepping up to 3600Mhz or beyond in 2021? To set the context this system needs to be capable for the next year or two to get me through the rest of my part time postgraduate degree. 64GB may seem overkill but I just don't want crashes anymore. I reckon the i7-6700k will be good enough to see me through but if it isn't would 3200Mhz RAM also suit a current gen system? Beyond my degree I don't see myself upgrading for a while as I will no longer have the use case so the idea is to utilise every inch of capability that I can from this system. By the time I will be looking to upgrade again I imagine DDR5 will be out and affordable so I will be starting over with a new CPU and motherboard. Generally, I tend to drain every drop of performance from computers before I upgrade which is why I still use a 10-year-old VAIO laptop with a sandy bridge CPU and 16GB RAM . To put it short, what is the sweet spot for RAM speed and latency in 2021?

Hi, I managed to get my hands on a Gigabyte Aorus Master 3070 as I seen one come in stock. I stupidly didn't think about if my CPU would bottleneck this card and now that I've installed it I'm getting less FPS than I got with my 1080ti. I assume the issue is bottlenecking however can anyone confirm this or suggest any other reasons why? I have an i7-6700k. I am currently debating sending the card back as I am getting drops to below 60fps which is making the games i play feel choppy in comparison to my 1080ti. Thanks in advance

Hi everyone! My main question is "Am I missing out on performance somewhere with the recent upgrade to the 6700xt?" So I initially bought my pc parts in July 2016 and upgraded my GPU from a 1070 to a 5700xt to a 6700xt in the last year or so, and got a new PSU, but everything else is still the same. I feel like I'm not getting that much of an performance upgrade from it as I would have thought. My build is: GPU: Gigabyte RX 6700XT Gaming OC CPU: Intel Core i7-6700k MB: Asus Z170-P RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4 @2.666 CL15 PSU: Seasonic Focus PX-750 SSD1: Kingston A2000 1TB m.2 SSD2: Samsung Evo 850 250GB HDD1: WD Blue 1TB CPU cooler: Cooler Master TX3 i Case: Corsair Carbide Spec-Alpha (2 front intake, 1 back outtake) (Had the CPU clocked @4.3, but became unstable at some point so had to revert it.) I'm not sure if my RAM or CPU is bottlenecking my rig. I mainly use it for gaming and occasionally streaming (which I have running the decoder on my CPU since it looks somehow better and smoother than on my GPU). Any initial thoughts?

I use my computer to game and stream but there are some games that I can't stream that well. So I just wanted to know if my rig is being bottlenecked by any of my other specs. i7-6700k, Nvidia RTX 2070 Super, 16GBs Ram 3200MHz, 4TB of Space, No SSD NZXT H510 Case.

So, I've run into a stumbling block with my overclock. I'm able to get 4.7Ghz stable. My settings in the bios are as follows (see attached pics) as are the results (as posted above). First and foremost, can anyone give me tips on what I might be doing wrong or what I might be able to do better? I want the best possible daily driver OC I can possibly muster. A few specific questions I have, VID (not exactly sure what IA is) both read 1.415/1.423. In the UEFI I have it set to adaptive 1.380 with a +0.010 offset. I've found this is where I can achieve stability. I know HWMonitor is reporting higher voltages probably has something to do with the fact that I'm using adaptive and also where I put the CPU LLC level. This seems like an awfully high voltage, from what I've heard you really don't want to go much over 1.4V. But look at my temps. I might need a high voltage to achieve a stable 4.7Ghz but my temps top out at ~65°C after several hours in AIDA64. Even less in the x264 stress test. And only slightly higher in Realbench which is also pushing the GPU (in an ITX case w/ a non-blower cooler). This makes me feel like I've got headroom to push even farther. So I bumped up my voltage to 1.400V and kept adaptive +.010V and set the clock to 4.8Ghz. Aida64 stops the test about 45 minutes into the stress test so these voltages are not stable. My max temps at 45 minutes (on air, Noctua NH-D15) maxed out at around 68°C. In HWMonitor the VID was at around VID 1.445V and IA 1.455V. This seems REALLY high and yet here I am sitting at 68°C. I'm raising the voltage but not getting hit too hard on temps but at this voltage I feel like it's unsafe to push it any further to achieve a stable 4.8Ghz. 4.9 or higher seems absolutely out of the question as it seems I need rather high voltages even for modest overclocks on this CPU. But maybe that's where my other settings are coming into play. Maybe I'm borking something up. I dunno. Can someone help with a few of these points? For reference: i7-6700K Asus Z170I Gaming 16GB Corsair DDR4 3000Mhz EVGA GTX 1080 FTW And since that's the case, and I can't get a stable OC @ 1.45V (at least as reported by HWMonitor) is there anything I'm borking up in my UEFI settings that could be costing be stability? Anything I should change for daily use?

So this post is kinda the same as one I had about 2 weeks ago. But essentially I am starting on my latest ITX build, this will be my second ITX build as I just built my latest ITX system about 8 weeks ago but am in the need for another system fairly soon unfortunately. However, I just upgraded my GPU in another system so I have an EVGA GTX 960 FTW ACX 2.0 4GB that's just sitting around, and I was very lucky and was able to buy a new i7-6700k on Amazon for $270 CAD! Which is an unreal deal! So obviously for the money it's pretty much a now brainer (I know), but my only thinking is should I try to sell it which I probably could get $350-$400 CAD for and go for the Ryzen 7 1700, or should I just stick with this i7-6700k? I am able to pre-order the Ryzen 7 1700 for $440 CAD. Here's my part picker list, which is mostly set in stone if I stick with this i7: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/2MbWjc So I already own the CPU, GPU, case, case fans, hard drives which I did not add to the list, and the PSU as it was on for a good deal last week. Basically, RAM, OS, m.2, and motherboard is all I need. I figure with this i7-6700k I can get good use out of it for 2-3 years for sure. My conflicts with going for the Ryzen 7 1700 would be: a) I need this system up and running for the end of May, b) the possible lack of good ITX boards immediately being on the market (I'm picky about my mobo's too), and finally c) for $270 would any CPU this good ever be this cheap? Even though Ryzen is better and is cheaper, realistically could it beat the price to performance I was able to get? I'm open to all ideas and suggestions! Thanks in advance!

So I am starting on my latest ITX build, this will be my second ITX build as I just built my latest ITX system about 6 weeks ago but am in the need for another system fairly soon unfortunately. However, I just upgraded my GPU in another system so I have an EVGA GTX 960 FTW ACX 2.0 4GB that's just sitting around, and I was very lucky and was able to buy a new i7-6700k on Amazon for $270 CAD! Which is an unreal deal! So obviously for the money it's pretty much a now brainer (I know), but my only thinking is should I try to sell it which I probably could get $400 CAD for and go for Ryzen, or should I just stick with this i7-6700k? Here's my part picker list, which is mostly set in stone if I stick with this i7: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/rTPXd6 So I already own the CPU, GPU, hard drives which I did not add to the list, and I just bought the PSU today as it was on a deal. My conflicts with not waiting for Ryzen would be: a) I need this system up and running for the end of May, will Ryzen even be released by then? b) the possible lack of good ITX boards immediately being on the market, and finally c) for $270 would any CPU this good ever be this cheap? Even if Ryzen is better and is cheaper realistically could it beat the price to performance I was able to get? I'm open to all ideas nad suggestions! Thanks in advanced!

Hey all, I intend to overclock my system very soon, and as a result, want to purchase a beefy air cooler. I have a 6700k which I've been cooling with an intel stock cooler so far (i know, i know... burn me at the stake), but I obviously don't want this situation to remain this way. My case is an Antec Six-Hundred V2 and has a 280mm fan on top and as a result, doesn't have the space for an AIO water cooling radiator meaning my only choice is an air cooler. Don't really have limits on my budget for it. Not interested in custom water cooling. Im using low-profile Corsair vengeance LPX RAM so it shouldn't be causing any clearance problem with the cooler and i'm running it all on an msi z170a gaming m5 motherboard. What would you recommend ? I've been thinking of the Dark Rock Pro 3 but wanted to ask around before making a definite decision. Obviously the Noctua nh-d15 is the best cooler around but it is just.. so.. ugly. Got a black and red theme going out for most of my case so would like the air cooler to fit that general style. Also if I could get any help making sure the clearance for the front panel works fine ? Thanks in advance!

Hello! I've recently tried to overclock my processor (again!), an Intel Core I7-6700k. Managed to pull a stable performance at 1.300v @ 4,5Ghz. Although this performance suits my needs, the CPU tends to spike temps sometimes. For example, upon opening My Computer, it will jump at around 52-53 degrees Celsius for 2 seconds, then drop at around 28-29 degrees, then after 10 seconds, coming back to 24-25 degrees, it's normal idle temp. Also, under heavy load, the voltage tends to go higher than specified in the motherboard OC page (instead of maximum 1,300v sometimes jumps to 1,342v!). There are 2 more options for the voltage other than manual, which are Offset Mode and Adaptive Mode. I don't fully understand those options, and also i cannot seem to find the LLC option in my motherboard settings, so i can tinker with it. Any help will be much appreciated! Have a nice day!

Hello, i already asked that question (if the Asus ROG Strix Z270H is good) but i was reading that it doesent fit in every Case (some people have trouble screwing the motherboard into the Stand off, they say the Motherboard is to small) So i want to get a different Motherboard for the same Price point. Maybe the Asus Z170-A. I want to go with a White and black build. Thanks

So I was looking at the transistor count of my CPU and I went on Wikipedia and the skylake CPUs are not very high up there and the only reason the apple chips and Xbox chips have more transistors is because it's an SoC which means the CPU,GPU and maybe more are in one chip but how come older chips have more transistors (I know some server chips and xeons would have more but some are 22nm and the skylake is 14nm so isn't it that the lower the nm the more transistors?) Thanks

So this is not an entirely new build, a few of the parts listed I scrapped from my previous PC. I've read the sticky, but i just thought i'd make a post anyway; ease of mind and all that. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($328.99 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($58.99 @ NCIX US) Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($239.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($88.99 @ NCIX US) Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($139.89 @ OutletPC) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($71.00 @ Amazon) Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 4GB STRIX Video Card ($504.99 @ SuperBiiz) Case: NZXT S340 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($89.99 @ SuperBiiz) Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex Gold 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply Total: $1522.83 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-11-03 05:16 EDT-0400 So i went with 650W, which from the sticky says is more than enough. So is it? I'm planning on heavily overclocking my rig as evidenced by MOBO choice, with the possibility of adding a full custom loop with an SLI setup in the very near future (2 1080s, if I can scrap the cash). Also I know that futureproofing is a myth, but at least with the power supply and motherboard I would very much like for both components to last at least 2 build iterations. So is Superflower known for its longevity? or should i just go with a more mainstream PSU like a Corsair RM650x? the price is higher but honestly if it'll give me an additional 1-2 over the Superflower it's a sound investment. Honestly I just went with the Superflower because the connectors light up and it looks cool, but with the s340 elite I guess it won't matter since there's a basement for the PSU anyway. So yeah, any input or suggestions for other PSUs are very much welcome!

I have a 1080p monitor right now and i have a gtx1080 and an i7-6700k and i am looking for a good 4k monitor any suggestions ?

Hi, So i am just about to buy an new PC and I really struggling with the cpu choice I am really getting to my budget I am not sure which to get i5 or the i7 and weather to get the overclocked one, I don't care about trying to overclock just what is best for the budget i will probably get a 4k screen and a vr head set i am running it with a gtx1070 i am also not sure about the motherboard cos getting an unlocked one costs more. just want an opinion.

I have i7-6700k OC'd to 4.6 ghz and at idle its around 30 and full load its 65 degrees celsius is that normal or should i worry

Hi, I have a problem. I have an i7-6700k on an Asus z270e gaming mobo, and for some reason, the i7 runs at 1.4 to 1.45 volts LOCKED. I've tried several times to manually lock the CPU voltage to 1.2v, 1.25v and 1.3v in the BIOS, but immediately when windows 10 boots, it goes back to anywhere from 1.4 and 1.45. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I would really like my CPU to run at somewhere around 1.2 to 1.3 volts, because even with my Dark Rock 3 cooler (pretty damn good for an air cooler) it runs at a near stock cooler like temp of 81 degrees in game playing load :(((( I have also tried to flash my bios, but that didn't work either.

So this might be a weird question but I'm wondering how to downclock my i7-6700k. At default it was at 1.35 voltage which seems too high, so I went into the BIOS (Mobo is Asus Z170 Pro Gaming) and tried the manual mode and set the 'cpu voltage override' option to 1.200 voltage. However in HWMonitor it still shows a max. voltage of 1.378 as seen in this screenshot http://imgur.com/a/tJWm1. Is there a way to force the CPU to not go above the 1.200 voltage or is this normal?

I'm looking to buy a new CPU cooler for my i7-6700K. I'm deciding between the Cryorig H5 (Ultimate/Universal, both are the same price and my RAM is low profile) or the Scythe Mugen 5. Both of them are the same price here. Can anyone tell me which of these two is the best as far as cooling and noise goes?

Basically i dont know what to chose https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JzqV9W - Ryzen 7 1700 https://pcpartpicker.com/list/DRvtFd - I5 7600k https://pcpartpicker.com/list/RHGgjc - I7 7700k https://pcpartpicker.com/list/h89d2R - i7 6700k I will be using my pc for gaming,edting,coding,photoshop,3d painting, autocad etc.

Ive always said to buy the i7 7700k but then i thought that the 30$ difference might as well be worth saving... Between i7 7700k and i7 6700k which one is the best? ( obv the i7 7700k) but to what extent... will the i7 6700k perform evenly-close to , or not? What speficic advantages does the 7700 has over to 6700 AND to be fair i dont even think if i will OVERCLOCK my cpu so does it even worth paying some extra money for some extra Mhz ? And if i buy the i7 6700k or the i7 7700k will a simple coolermaster hyper 212 evo do its job? Provided that i dont overclock it ofcourse... The use is simple , content creator , gaming , livestreaming .

Hi I was trying to overclock (using bios) my i7-6700k to 4.7GHz with 1.4 to 1.43 volts and it keeps crashing. I have a Fractal S36 AIO water cooler (360mm) so temperature is not an issue. Stress testing for 30 minutes using AIDA 64 extreme doesn't see temps going above 75'C. My base frequency was 100 and the multiplier was 47. The computer wouldn't freeze instantly. Maybe after 30 minutes or so. I have the Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero Alpha motherboard and 16GB of Gskillz TridentZ 3200MHz RAM. I am am new to overclocking so could someone help me out. I've attached some screenshots of what the overclocking software attempted to do. It ended up settling for a 4.7GHz overclock before bluescreening on 4.8. After the 4.7GHz ocerclock seemed to be working I started playing some games and browsing the web and it kept crashing and freezing so I had to dial down to a 4.6GHz overclock. (I'm not sure of the significance of this bit but one time when it froze the reset and poser buttons would not shutdown the PC ) Any help will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks

Hello everyone! Im planing a new pc build for livestreaming and gaming purposes for arround 1,400 € because i dont need al the components if i did it would cost me arround 2k€ and this is what i came up with: ________________________________________________ New parts: CPU - Intel i7 6700k 4.00Hz Water cooling - You guys said to throw this one out (Corsair H75) so i exchanged it with Corsair H110 280mm Motherboard - MSI Z170A-PRO RAM - Kingston Fury 16GB (2x8 DDR4) GPU - Palit Geforce GTX 1080 Super JetStream 8GB Case - I also changed the case from (NZXT S340) to a new and more compact Corsair carbide 400C ________________________________________________ Previus PC parts: PSU - Sharkoon 700W 80BronzePlus HDD - WD Blue 1TB SSD - Samsung 120GB (Windows 10 only on it) CDROM - Random one for 20€ _______________________________________________ The main question i have now is will it work if i just plug my SSD with a preinstalled windows10 that i used on my other pc with a totaly diferent motherboard and a AMD CPU? Or will i have to reinstall everything? I know ill have to delete old drivers for GPU and install new ones but will i have to totaly erase everything i really dont want to loose any files Thankyou for your tips and comments!

Hi, a couple of weeks ago I posted this on the PC Master Race Reddit and no one helped me. I started watching Linus videos and I trust much more in this community so here is the original post: "Hello everyone, first of all I would like to clarify that I do not usually post anything here so I do not know if it is the appropriate place to ask for help on this subject, but as I will explain below I am using it as a last resort. A little over three months ago I bought a GTX 1070 G1. At first I just wanted to change the graphics card, but the performance of my PC was not even close to what it had to be, so I gradually changed my components until, finally, there is nothing left of the original PC except of a disc player and 1TB hard drive that I use as a secondary hard drive. The last thing I changed was the hard drive, for an SSD, and that was what almost fixed the problem. At first I could not move almost any new generation game with max settings, now those problems have disappeared except for four games in particular: Titanfall: It's perfect on in almost any map except in some, where it drops to 50FPS. These maps are usually those with water or some special feature like more vegetation etc. Assassin's Creed Syndicate: After the latest update of Nvidia drivers it works much better, I still have to put the Antialiasing in FXAA and the quality of the environment very high so that it runs at 60 FPS and they also go down. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Campaign): I play at max settings, but there are lag spikes and frame drops to 50FPS or sometimes lower. Far Cry 4: I have had to lower the Antialiasing to SMAA and the shadows to Ultra for it to work well, but still, it bothers me not being able to play it to the maximum. There are some other minimal problems when going fast in Batman Arkham Knight and GTAV but they are almost not noticeable. On the other hand I can play games like Battlefield 4 and Black Ops 3 at max settings and I have no problems. If you need any other information to identify the problem with those games please tell me. My specifications are as follows: - GTX 1070 G1 - i7-6700K - 8GB RAM (Kingston FuryX 2133Mhz) - SanDisk Ultra II SSD 960GB SATA3 - ASUS Aura b150 Pro Gaming Aura Board - Tacens Valeo V 800W 80 Plus Silver Modular Power Supply Sorry for my bad English, but I'm not native. I hope it has been understandable and you can help me, after spending so much money on the PC Master Race it feels terrible not to be unconcerned about the games going smoothly. I also did a 3dMark benchmark: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11099475 Greetings. EDIT: I'm running the latest version of Windows 10, I always play at 1080p and I think I have the latest drivers for everything, but I only updated manually the graphics card. For example I didn't use the instalation disc for the motherboard but I trust Windows Update updated it." Now I have tried Battlefield 1 and in some maps with fog the frames drop. After that I decided to overclock my graphics card and my CPU and the game runs much better, but it still bothers me. And other thing, when I overclocked my i7-6700k following Linus' video I couldn't overclock it passed the 4'2Mhz. Thanks for helping.

My system specs. System CPU i7-6700k Motherboard MSI Z170A PC Mate 1151 RAM G.SKILL Ripjaws V 16gb GPU EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Case Corsair Vengeance C70 Storage SAMSUNG EVO 500GB, WD BLUE 1TB PSU RAIDMAX HYBRID 630W Display(s) Acer Predator X34 Cooling CORSAIR HYDRO SERIES H110i Extreme Keyboard Corsair Strafe Mechanical Keyboard Mouse Corsair Rival Operating System Windows 7 Is there anything I can do to get it normal? My fps in games like Doom, Rome 2, and Far Cry 4 are 2-20fps. Benchmark scores are low I think. I don't remember when I took this one with Heaven so this may not be accurate. I have to find my recent Heaven benchmarks.I don't know where they are at. Should I try to re-center my GPU or do I need to reapply thermal paste to my CPU? I DID NOT put my desktop together, I had to pay someone to do it. I don't have the time to properly do this type of stuff. Any help or advice that you can give me is greatly appreciated. Also, I'm taking screenshots, but when I go to Notepad to paste them nothing shows up. Thanks, -Deepia Unigine_Heaven_Benchmark_4.0_20160921_1713.html