I can properly enjoy my games again!

The i5 6600K is a great processor, and for even high end gaming, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between the two as a majority of modern games are mainly GPU intensive

I bought this CPU almost 3 years ago and I can still playing incredible in ultra all games with my Gtx 1080

Before in my favorite game I always had bad framerates in certain areas with AMD.

Survival as well as low end video games such as League of Legends

works great, however make sure you "unpark" it, many games like metro 2033 has problems working with skylake causing stuttering

but this is basically the best option for a new gaming build without spending over $1000 for more cores that games don't yet take advantage of.

I7 quad core processor will be more than enough muscle for any and all modern games, and probably leave your gaming rig sitting pretty years of games considering that games are much more gpu dependent

I went from the ground up on this new build, my old machine had 5-10 year old component's and my newer games were struggling

Love it so far; didn't gain much against a 2 year old i5 K series; regarding games performances, but on professional applications, like video editing and 3D, you can tell the difference very easily

(at the time of the review the i7-6950X is overkill and doesn't make the game play any better because we haven't caught up yet to

Nice and fast — makes everything run fast and can run my games no problem.

I do all sorts of things from gaming, photoshop to adobe premiere editing.(I guess for heavy loads of video editing (with lots of filters and effects), you could go for more higher end / better performance cpus out there.)I think this is a perfect cpu for any pc enthusiasts that game and edit photos, videos.

That game has a terrible CPU restriction, which is now fortunately solved (I'm talking from 1-2fps with my Sandy Bridge to a solid 35-60fps depending on the situation on my Skylake!!!) :)Also helps that I overclocked with my new liquid water cooler to 4.5GHz, and have RAM overclocked to 3400MHz, but the processor... such a huge upgrade

He was incredibly happy and his games fly like an eagle now.

I have it paired with a Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming GT Motherboard, 16GB of DDR4 3200 G Skill RAM and a corsair h100 cpu cooler.

I've ran this CPU at both 4.4ghz as well as

Wonderful amazing A+++++!

Good as always is Intel

Buy as good as you can.

Delivered on time and works as it is supposed to.

Works as it should but far too expensive when MicroCenter is selling this item for less than $300