i7-6700K-back-to-4400MHz Intel Core i7-6700K testing with a Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH-CF and Intel Sky Lake on LinuxMint 18 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-6700K: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 4 x 16384 MB DDR4-3000MHz, Disk: 5 x 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2 x 2000GB My Passport 0827, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: LG ULTRAWIDE, Network: Intel Connection OS: LinuxMint 18, Kernel: 4.4.0-45-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.0.7, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 4.4 Mesa 12.1.0-devel, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 + OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1912.5), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3440x1440 Numpy Benchmark Phoronix Test Suite v6.6.1 Nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 4759279 |================================================ x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 230.66 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 994.61 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 607.50 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 296.77 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 1575.88 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 1310.40 |================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-6700K . 1182.49 |================================================