Intel Core i7-6700K (14nm Skylake) Review

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Hexus posted a review on the Intel Core i7-6700K (14nm Skylake)

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Find out if Skylake deserves your hard-earned money. The PC landscape has changed irrevocably in the last five years. Intel, smarting from being behind rival AMD in the processor stakes after the Austin outfit launched the impressive Athlon range of chips way back when, released the Sandy Bridge architecture at the start of 2011, and what an architecture it was. It was Intel's engineering at its very best.

Good old Sandy came tearing into town armed with both performance and energy efficiency in spades. CPU performance was predictably strong, but Intel also used the Sandy Bridge launch as a pretext to dabble with improving onboard graphics, which is a trend that continues today.

It's very telling that the best Sandy Bridge processor, Core i7-2700K, is still considered decent four years on, and those with enough foresight to purchase it at that time haven't felt the need to upgrade. Ivy Bridge has come and gone, Haswell is probably powering your PC right now, while Broadwell has barely made a whimper.
 Intel Core i7-6700K (14nm Skylake) Review @ Hexus