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Eurocom Announces GTX 980 Sky X9 Gaming Notebook
Eurocom’s Sky X9 gaming notebook features a Core i7-6700K, up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, a desktop GTX 980 graphics card and choice between a 1920×1080 or 3840×2160 display. This staggering core specification is capable of supporting dual PCIe M.2 SSDs, two SATA 2.5″ drives and contains five USB 3.0 ports and…
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Chillblast Fusion Master Skylake Gaming PC Review
Introduction Chillblast is one of the most prestigious custom-PC builders in the industry and offers peace-of-mind with an unparalleled 5-year warranty. This impeccable customer service and sensible component selection makes each system a worthwhile investment and reassures the less technically-minded customer. In the past, we’ve reviewed a number of intriguing…
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Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging The Z170 chipset and Skylake CPU’s has been around for just over a week now and we have seen pretty much everything that each manufacturer has to offer. We now know that the huge connectivity options presented by the Z170 chipset that some manufacturers have included not on,…
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Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review
Introduction We’ve had the Skylake-S processors and Z170 chipset for a little while now and in that time, we haven’t really seen much from our friends at Gigabyte. The Z170 chipset is one of the best that Intel has ever produced, even coming close to that of the X99 range…
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ASUS Z170 Maximus VIII Hero (LGA 1151) Review
Introduction The Z170 chipset and Skylake CPU’s have been around for just over a week now and we have seen pretty much everything that each manufacturer has to offer. We now know that the huge connectivity options presented by the Z170 chipset that some manufacturers have included not one, but two,…
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Intel Core i7-6700K ‘Skylake’ Almost Reaches Magical 7.0GHz
Chi-Kui Lam has set a world overclocking record for the i7-6700K, which came tantalizing close to the 7.0GHz mark and achieved a stable maximum figure of 6998.88MHz. As a professional overclocker, he managed this feat by increasing the core voltage from 1.2v to 1.888v using liquid nitrogen. Staggeringly, this was a core…
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Intel Skylake De-Lidded and It Surprised Us
It was only a matter of time before someone de-lidded one of the new Intel Skylake processors and just that has been done now with a new Core i7-6700K quad-core processor, and it holds a few surprises. The actual silicon inside the chip was unexpectedly small and even smaller than…
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Acer’s Latest Predator Desktop Features an i7-6700K and Whopping 64GB RAM
Acer has unveiled the Predator G6-710 pre-built PC which utilizes Intel’s 1151 socket and a Core i7-6700K processor. The CPU is manually overclocked via a liquid cooling solution and should allow for a core clock around 4.5GHz using 1.35V. However, no concrete details have been provided about the pre-overclocked speed…
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ASRock Z170 Extreme 7+ (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Z170 and Skylake are here, finally! The true successor to Haswell and Haswell Refresh and the first 100% successful 14nm process. Broadwell works, but due to limitations and problems, it was an extremely late release and didn’t really wow us. Skylake is set to change that by…
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Overclockers UK Offer a X99 System for Less than a Top-End Skylake i7 Setup
Intel launched their Skylake platform yesterday and we had you covered with both the two new processor reviews as well as a bunch of new Z170 motherboards. But not everyone is convinced that it might be the best way to go, as we still have the option to go down…
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ASUS Z170-A (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Mark today in the Intel history calendar, if you are keeping one, because Skylake, Z170 and mainstream DDR4 are here. We’ve been keeping tight-lipped about this for a few weeks and we can finally show off what we have been working on. You already know almost all of the…
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Intel Core i7-6700K & i5-6600K “Skylake” Processors Review
Introduction Skylake is finally here, after months of speculation that all leads up to a single date in the calendar. Based on the first truly successful 14nm process after the very difficult launch of Broadwell a few weeks ago. Today sees the launch of two of the Intel Skylake SKU’s;…
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PC Specialist Azure (LGA 1151) Gaming PC Review
Introduction PC Specialist has an illustrious reputation for creating some of the most reliable and thought-provoking builds in the custom PC industry. Their latest creation, code-named Azure, is based on Intel’s brand new Z170 chipset and includes the flagship, i7-6700K Skylake processor (review here). While the CPU has a stock…
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MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging The Intel Z170 chipset has landed, and with it comes the launch of the Intel Skylake processors in the form of the i5-6600K and i7-6700K. The Z170 chipset has been upgraded in almost every way. The RAM has been changed from DDR3(L) to DDR4, which brings with it…
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ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Today is the day that the Z170 chipset and Skylake overclocking processors are here and we can finally show off these great products. The Z170 platform has taken a somewhat minor upgrade to the untrained eye, but to those who know what to look for will notice…
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