Intel ES Questions

[cstwister]

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?

[TheCherryKing]

22 minutes ago, cstwister said:

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?

I wouldn't get any Intel Engineering Sample CPU's except for Xeons. The clockspeeds can be significantly lower. High clockspeeds are the main selling point of the Core i7 processors. 

[cstwister]

4 minutes ago, TheCherryKing said:

I wouldn't get any Intel Engineering Sample CPU's except for Xeons. The clockspeeds can be significantly lower. High clockspeeds are the main selling point of the Core i7 processors. 

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.

[TheCherryKing]

Just now, cstwister said:

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.

Xeons could be used on consumer grade boards prior to Skylake and vice versa.

[cstwister]

1 minute ago, TheCherryKing said:

Xeons could be used on consumer grade boards prior to Skylake and vice versa.

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. 

[TheCherryKing]

1 hour ago, cstwister said:

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. 

All the way up to the X99/C612 platform Core i7 and Xeon E5 processors can be used in the same motherboards.

[cstwister]

Just now, TheCherryKing said:

All the way up to the X99/C612 platform Core i7 and Xeon E5 processors can be used in the same motherboards.

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