Intel Core i7 6th Gen - Core i7-6850K Broadwell-E 6-Core 3.6 GHz LGA 2011-V3 140W BX80671I76850K Desktop Processor

Pros: Worked great out of box. OCed easily with fairly low voltage (1.235v @ 4.2 Ghz). Lots of threads for VMs and DB indexing!

Cons: N/A

Overall Review: Don't get this for gaming. It's a high end workstation chip. If you have cash to light on fire, go ahead. It works fine for gaming. Just don't whine about the price. A 6700K will do you just fine.

Pros: - 6 cores, 12 threads is great for gaming and heavily multi-threaded applications. - Runs cool.

Cons: - Expensive - Performance difference from 5820K is minimal - Not the greatest overclocker

Overall Review: I "side-graded" from my 5820K. I wasn't expecting a vast performance difference, just wanted to play with the latest and greatest technology. I can only manage 4.3Ghz stable on my ASUS X99-PRO @ 1.300v. The system would immediately crash at 4.4Ghz @ 1.325v. I could have tried cranking the voltage up really high, but I didn't think it was worth it. From what I've read, 4.2-4.3Ghz seems the normal range for this particular chip. This CPU is running noticeably cooler than my old 5820K, despite running at higher voltage. Idle temp is about 32C, and goes up to about 46C during gaming. Impressive. System Specs: 6800K @ 4.3Ghz ASUS X99-PRO Corsair H110 16GB G.Skill PC2800 DDR4 MSI Gaming 980 Ti 500GB Samsung 850 EVO EVGA 850w Platinum Dell U3011 Jonsbo W2 Case NOTE: I happened to get this CPU on sale, and with a gift code for $399.99. At the regular price of $439.99 I think it's overpriced compared to the 5820K.

Pros: - decent overclocker -super powerful

Cons: - not as good of an overclocked as previous generation

Overall Review: At stock i was shocked to see idle temps of 20 and 21c. Using an H105 to cool the chip. Lower nm clearly paying off here. Put a simple 4.1 OC using an asrock x99 WS board and landed at 1.18v stable. Prune 95 small fft gets a few cores as high as 74 but others in the 60s. Solid numbers especially for a workstation build. May try 4.2, may not bother. Passmark performance test scoring just over 19,500 putting this at comparable overall processing of a 12 core $2150 v3 xeon. Find me an application this won't chew up beautifully....

Pros: - My first Intel CPU since the late 90's and honestly I'm amazed! - I use this for gaming and software development. I have on average 4 VM's running, PyCharm / PHP Storm, PgAdmin, Chrome/FF/IE Browser(s), IRC, MP3 Player, Thunderbird, and many other smaller programs running and I've yet to notice any slowness.

Cons: - None

Overall Review: - Running Windows Pro 10; 27 second boot time, 13 second shutdown time.

Pros: -Really Low temperatures even at full load -Intel Quality -Good price/performance ratio

Cons: -Price should be close to the 5820k -Overclocking this CPU using normal voltages is impossible (4.5ghz was the max I got it stable at, temps were really high tho)

Overall Review: Overall a really good CPU, REALLY good temps at stock speeds. Definetly worth the extra money over a 6700k and z170 in my opinion. Overclocking this thing was a real hassle......... Max I got it to is 4.5ghz with 1.48v (Note that I'm using a really good water cooling system) Temps were at 82-85c at full load which is too high for me. This amount of voltage for 4.5ghz only is way too much compared to the 5820k @5ghz/1.46v I have on my workstation. If you're looking to overclock please AVOID Broadwell-E. Gaming performance is insane, really good gaming CPU that's for sure. Mostly if you're running a ton of background softwares when gaming. Had a 6700k and decided to keep it for my LAN PC instead because it was struggling a little bit. CPU Usage on my old 6700k when gaming GTA V was around 90% most of the time. With the 6800k it's around 60-65%. Definetly worth the extra money. PC specs : Intel Core i7 6800k 6 Core Broadwell-E @4.4Ghz MSI x99A Gaming Pro Carbon LGA 2011-v3 G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 32GB (8x4GB) 2x EVGA GTX 980 Classified @1603/4506 (Custom Bios) OCZ Trion 150 480GB SSD WD black 1TB EVGA PS 1000w Phanteks Enthoo Luxe 6xThermaltake Riing 12 Series Blue LED BitFenix Recon Fan Controller Gelid Extreme compound (CPU and GPUs) Windows 10 Pro

Pros: Great Proc. I came from the 980x Extreme i7, DDR 3 system.

Cons: None... Not the Extreme but I'm not paying $16xx.

Overall Review: I would recommend.

Pros: 40 lanes of bandwidth can be very handy when running multiple applications. The CPU can handle 128 GB of RAM easily and this I can attest to because I'm running it with that much Corsair Dominator memory as I type this review. I've used this chip for nearly a year now with minor issues. It is certainly fast but the best feature, in my opinion, is the 12 threads I get with this hex-core CPU. If you're a multi-tasker and you like to put your PC to work you definitely have enough "horse power" with this puppy. Thermals are a bit high but nothing that can't be rectified with a good cooler. Just for a test I ran a game, played YouTube videos, and typed a chapter with Microsoft Office open, while running a backup all at the same time with at least a dozen other tabs open on my browser. There was no noticeable difference in performance to what I would expect simply surfing the net. The extra bandwidth allows for multiple PCIe lane usage and my PC is jam packed with cards so this is a big bonus. For the record I'm running RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10 (via LSI FALCON) with this CPU without a hiccup so that should tell you something about what this chip can do. Data transfers are fast and smooth, it runs well with a RAM DRIVE, and can handle as many hard drives as you are willing to plug into it. (Mine currently runs twelve.) It may not be your best "bang for the buck" but it does have Intel's reknowned tried and tested reputation going for it and for me, it has passed the test of time with flying colours. Works well with the NVIDIA GTX 1070 GPU. What more can I say? It's a beast.

Cons: SAMSUNG informed me that I cannot run their EVO 850 M.2 card with this particular chip. I had to return the SSD but Newegg was very good about the matter and accepted the return without charging me a restocking fee. Plus they refunded me shipping. WOW NEWEGG YOU GUYS ROCK! Once you know Newegg...

Overall Review: I would recommend this CPU to anyone who uses an X99 WORK STATION motherboard and needs more bandwidth. This is not a gamer chip per se but you can certainly game on it if you want to. It's great for video rendering, work station, home server, and forensics. I also use it for data recovery. I wouldn't say this chip is a good "overclocker" but it is certainly stable out of the box. It was designed for heavy workloads and it certainly performs well in this regard. I would not down play the speed of this chip. It is fast for all intents and purposes but if speed is your number one priority you're probably better off with a Skylake or one of the newer chips. Think of a high performance semi-truck and you're on the right track.

Pros: I do many different PC tasks from high gaming with my Nvidia 1080, to multi-media production (multi-track audio recording/music production, video editing/rendering with Vegas Pro, video compression with the CPU intensive program Handbreak, ect). I have been using this CPU for about a year now. I purchased it in the summer of 2016. When picking out this CPU, I was moving from the outdated AMD FX 8350, and I got a major boost in performance because of that. I have 32 gigs of ram installed with this CPU and I have it in the a Corsair Graphite 760t case with the Gigabyte GA-X99-Ultra Gaming motherboard. Have not had any issues with this setup. I have been running the Cooler Master Evo 212 aftermarket cooler on it, and when I am using something like Handbrake to render video, the entire processor is used to 100% the entire time it is rendering. I usually render full HD video from a higher end production camera (1920 x 1080 60fps - 50mbps files), so sometimes Handbrake is pushing this cpu to 100% full load for a good hour or two straight. The highest temp I have ever got with this cpu using the Evo 212 cooler with Handbrake pushing for a solid 2 hours was 49c, and that was on a summer day where the ambient room temp was warmer. As of writing this review, I am currently awaiting my Corsair AIO liquid cooler, so my temps will be even lower after I install that, but they are just fine with the Evo cooler on it. But since I may start overclocking and the liquid cooler is going to be needed, I plan on replacing the cooler. So, a solid case with good airflow, an Evo 212 keeps the temp below 50c, which is way below the red flag temp. For gaming, while playing higher end titles like GTA V, I am pushing 60fps at 3440 x 1440 resolution on my ultra wide monitor with a Nvideo GTX 1080 8gig card. Never have any issues while playing any game, so this is a solid chip for gaming as well.

Cons: I guess the price would be a con at the moment? Now that Ryzen is out and has much lower price points. However, I bought this CPU well before Ryzen was released, so I don't consider that a factor.

Overall Review: I would recommend this CPU to anyone who is looking into it, however, with the new core i9 chips and now even Ryzen being out, you may want to look at all other options as well.