Intel Boxed Core i7-6850K Processor (15M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz) FC-LGA14A 3.6 6 BX80671I76850K

For all those people who say this isn't worth the upgrade. I say you should look at your system setup!! 1st I've always tried to buy platforms that you could upgrade with minimal investment and would be a solid workstation/game machine that is fast or at least faster than prepackages computer systems. I have 2 ssd in raid 0 / 1- m.2/ a single 1080 / Separate sound card in a pci slot (that doesn't share pci lanes) and a 27inch 1080i 144hz 1ms tn panel upgraded to this beast from a 5820k which I had for years and worked and game on regular. I notices right away I had more choices in the bios related to my m.2 and sound card (had to completely reinstall sound card on the same slot cause the slot was sharing on the 5820k due to the lack of pci lanes) There is a difference - gaming on the low end when fire fights get to be over whelming 6850k is stronger does it always have max fps ask yourself does it matter after 144fps? If that is all the matters in your gamers mind don't get this. Pure performance yes this thing is a beast I'd say I notice the 5-10% performance increase claims chews through gaming and web searches with zero load time (I'm on Fiber) I always thought well its the machine or browsing settings , this will always be slow - but the instant page loading while browsing is worth the current 359+/- IMO. Pages load immediate! programs run faster -its just better. Especially when that's all you have to invest is 350-ish to upgrade your system (it wasn't worth it at 600+). ANYONE who argues another platform in faster your not going to only spend 350 bucks. If you can just buy this its worth it other plat forms will likely require MB/CPU/ maybe memory and will be over 1000 bucks. The 40 pci lanes will make sli work better or anything that is SHARING lanes presently in your system is bogging down your system this chip will help. If you have a graphics card /HD/ nothing else unlikely you'll see an improvement.If you buying a completely NEW system may want to get the latest and greatest and pass on this. However if you plan on loading your new computer with multiple peripherals and hard drives that take up pci lanes think through what your getting, PCI lanes shared isn't good for any processor especially if you plan on filling your system.

It works great on the Asus ROG Rampage 10 Anniversary Edition. Plenty of lanes for SLI. This 6 core processor ran at 4GHZ on all cores right out of the box without changing a single setting.I easily overclocked this CPU to 4.4ghz @1.35V with a Noctua NH-U12S dual fan cooler. I still have to tweak various voltages, I think I can get the core voltage dropped a bit. But for now it's completely stable at good temps on Prime95 AVX and non AVX, HCI Memtest, Realbench plus other various benchmarks and games. This 6850K @ 4.4 runs cooler than my old 4 core i7-950 @ 3.9. Idle temps are usually about 27-28c and gaming temps are between 35-50c average. It's also about 60-70 percent faster in single core usage and much faster in multi core usage.Great CPU for gaming and workstation use. This new quad channel build has a little over 3 times faster ram compared to my old i7-950 tri channel ram build. My current ram is quad channel DDR4 G.Skill F4-3200C14-16GTZSW 4X16GB, my old ram was triple channel DDR3 Corsair TR3X6G1600C8D 3X2GB. Benchmarks: 21-22GBPS for the 950 / 66-67GBPS for the 6850K. This DDR4 ram has a lot better latency in benchmarks as well.Update: I hooked up an Arctic Liquid Freezer 360 with six Noctua NF-F12 fans in push/pull. I overclocked this CPU to 4.5GHz core @ 1.36V & 3.8GHz cache @ 1.33V. I can probably lower the voltages although the temps are great, I'll test that another time since it's stable. Idle temp on high performance mode is between 20-26C on the cores and 32-35C on the package, depending on ambeint temps (idles a few C above ambient in high performance mode). Full load temps are between 43-60C on the cores and package, depending on the application and ambeint temps. While playing games like GTA 5 & Ark in 1080@60hz with a 1080Ti, the temps are almost constantly under 40C, with the occasional short spike up to about 50C. This CPU is awesome with this cooler. The package temps under load never exceed my hottest cores temp, literally never. It's almost like my package temp and hottest core temp are linked under load. In fact, I've had one of my cores reach 1C hotter than my max package temp once during a stress test. Here are my Aida64 RAM speeds. READ: 68478MB/S - WRITE: 81462MB/S - COPY: 79085MB/S - LATENCY: 50.6ns.