2015's most impressive consumer chip is here, and I bought it directly from Amazon during one of those rare moments it was available directly through Amazon.com!The STOCK 4-core i7-6700k CPU

Got a Noctua and now I absolutely love this chip.

I got a good chip

The chip works as advertised.

Great chip, runs about 32-34°c on idle at a 4.6Ghz overclock

However my first chip that arrived was faulty

It's a great chip with a lot of potential as the other reviewers have noted, if you are planning on and upgrade

Cool chip, fast performance and more potential when I feel like turning it up a bit more

Still a great chip to own till Zen comes, out.

You WILL love this chip if you are coming off of anything older than my previous chip (Ivy) such as a Sandy, Pentium, or AMD equivalent processor

It's been several years since I upgraded, and this chip was a great improvement over the i7 960 I had

Very powerful chip

Once I got the replacement for the chip mix-up that was returned, the actual correct chip seems to work just fine

Once I got the replacement for the chip mix-up that was returned, the actual correct chip seems to work just fine

These are amazing chips!

Maybe the chip I got was bad because temps were insane, even with a 240mm CLC.

Moving from an i7 920 to this i7 Skylake because these chips are so well

They are still great chips and cheap.

Please note that the i7-6700K is still a relatively hot chip, especially compared

Fast chip.

I won the silicon lottery and got a stable and cool chip that overclocks extremely well.

Also, it's a crazy fast chip.

Also, it's a crazy fast chip.

Awesome chip

Great Chip, runs like a monster under Win 7

Even when priced higher than suggested retail, you have to remember this is still the absolute fastest single thread performance chip on the market, and the equivalent fastest chip cost 2-3 times this much three years ago.

Some room for improvement, but with a premium cooler (I prefer liquid) and a top shelf thermal paste, temps are a chilly 26°C on idle, 45°C on gaming load, and 60°-65°C on stressing levels (4.5Ghz, mind

and I lack A/C) and after 18 months, it ended up Blue-Screening and wouldn't boot my OS anymore (it would still POST and go to BIOS/UEFI, though).

WOW...and a stable 34 degrees C, when not being 'pushed' too hard

Runs a bit hot (I lost in the IHS lottery) but until recently (when Ryzen launched) there wasn't much competition in this space.