Vlada011
Look nice, I would 100% upgrade on Skylake same with DDR4 this year, but I decide to go with X99 for longer time.
I don't know somehow is more attractive Z170 platform than Haswell Z87/Z97... Only EVGA had two extremely nice motherboards for Haswell, but Z170 Classified have everything someone need for longer future.
Whole platform is somehow more attractive, only I don't like because Intel didn't made same Turbo as i7-4790K (4.4GHz).
I mean from one side that is bad, from other side that's maybe even better because most people will anyway overclock to 4.5GHz...
Nobody will leave on 4.2GHz for sure. Most of them don't even need more voltage for 4.5GHz.
 
But look on picture in corner... EVGA TORQ X10...

 
 
 

Vlada011
 
You had chance now with i7-5820K. Most of them work 500-700MHz overclocked on stock voltage.
Even price was cheaper than i7-6700K. With X99 Micro 2 USB 3.1 or X99-A/USB 3.1 price would be similar as some normal Skylake platform. 
People didn't figure out how Intel made excellent processors, special i7-5960X... 8 cores but still capable to work overclocked on 1200-1300MHz over stock frequency... That's almost half of his speed. Bigger success than i7-4790K on 5.0GHz and improvements are bigger than i7-4790K stock vs 5.0GHz. Amazing processor.
 
K|NGP|N record in Unigine Heaven on Skylake and single graphic card is one more prove that Extreme is better only with multi GPU and i7-4790K only if they work on Turbo clock, on same speed Skylake is better.
 
 
 

Scarlet-Tech

SiAScORCH
I don't like OC'ing my chips, so with the only one close to 4Ghz being $500, I'm quite alright. The ONLY reason I would of went with the X99 is for the MSI Godlike motherboard and I couldn't justify spending $550 for that.

May I ask why you don't overclock?

If it is because of wear and tear, warranty covers most everything aside from Delidding and extremely overclocking. If you wear the chip out under normal usage, they send you a 100% brand new unopened cpu.

You really don't even have to push for extreme measure, just a little and you gain a substantial benefit.

Scarlet-Tech

SiAScORCH
I just don't like messing with it. I don't like high temps so it's more of a preference thing.

Completely understandable. I guess 4790k wins at the preclocked speeds :-)

vinhus
Skylake Core i7-6700K CPU on EVGA's own Z170 Classified motherboard equipped with 16GB of G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 memory and powered by EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 T2 power supply, K|NGP|N managed to overclock the Core i7-6700K CPU up to 5.6GHz and EVGA's GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N graphics card to over 2GHz, allowing him to get a score of 7,893.7 in Unigine Heaven Xtreme benchmark, which is the new single-card world record.
 
http://fudzilla.com/news/38654-evga-and-k-ngp-n-broke-unigine-heaven-xtreme-record
 
Very nice !!!

Vlada011

SiAScORCH

Scarlet-Tech

SiAScORCH
I just don't like messing with it. I don't like high temps so it's more of a preference thing.

Completely understandable. I guess 4790k wins at the preclocked speeds :-)

Yea, I have the 4790k but I'm getting the 6700k. I'll probably adjust the boost clock to 4.5 though, just to make it even.

4.5GHz is perfect for i7-6700K, no one keep i7 on default clock.
From side of enthusiasts they don't need to afraid and feel bad because i7-4790K online results show 1-2% faster CPU.
That's only because higher Intel Turbo Clock, if they want to overclock i7-6700K on similar speed they are in advantage.

Vlada011
Max Turbo on i7-6700K is 4.2GHz...
You mean you overclock with Turbo to 4.5GHz.
i7-6700K is excellent processor, little annoying because half of CPU is Internal Graphic Card, but that's not really important what is inside for someone who look performance of Processor.

MSim
That is a nice temp overclock but worthless for everyday use. Must be nice to receive binned products to overclock with for free.

Scarlet-Tech
it's K|ngp|n.. He breaks records.. It's what he does.

Sajin

Scarlet-Tech
it's K|ngp|n.. He breaks records.. It's what he does.

+1

Scarlet-Tech

MSim
That is a nice temp overclock but worthless for everyday use. Must be nice to receive binned products to overclock with for free.

Its K|ngp|n... Do you think he runs LN2 on his daily driver?

Nope... He benches for the numbers. Again, it's K|ngp|n, who's job is seemingly benching computers... So what else do you expect him to do? No one cares about daily use when going for records.

MSim

More people care about daily use over pointless benchmark scores that doesn't prove anything in real world performance. Lets see what Vince can do with a system being cooled by air that's used for gaming etc everyday. See how stable his system stays for a month.