Review on Desktop Processor: Intel Core i5 6500 3.20 GHz Quad Core Skylake, Socket LGA 1151, 6MB Cache by Li Mei ᠌

Without overclocking, the percentage is simply a miracle of technology, I have not seen such energy efficiency yet, in idle time the frequency of the cores drops to 800 MHz, there is no thermal imaging at all, even stop the cooler (the temperature in the room is about 25-28 degrees), with a usual load of 35 gr. somewhere no more than 40, with resource-intensive tasks already under 40-45 but no more (games, etc., excluding synthetics and long-term warm-up). By the way, I have never seen the declared frequency of 3.9 in a turbo boost, 3.8 maximum (maybe it just didn’t load very much) and as I understand it from the BIOS parameters, it seems to be set to only 1 core by 2 already 3.8 GHz on the third 3.7 ( maybe a feature of the mother). At the same time, it is already noticeable that the temperature of the cores is 5-10 degrees higher than the temperature of the processor itself (which just killed me after my Extreme QX9650, everything was the opposite there). At the same time, the percentage is very squat and does not feel the load, I managed to load it on average 60% maximum in everyday life, the same games somewhere around 40-50% no more (for the sake of interest, I even launched 2 games - the percentage with a grin showed 65% of the load;) and they both worked normally), which is very good, when there is no load, it lowers the frequency itself, thereby heating up less, while this does not affect the speed of the task. But during overclocking, the “mayonnaise” under the lid is already much stronger, at a frequency of 4.1 GHz the temperature in idle is 35, but with everyday load it is already 45-55 (without synthetics and benchmarks), while the temperature of the cores will be somewhere around 5-10 degrees more, and since the frequency will no longer drop, the cores will overheat much more, without overclocking, the difference in core temperatures is not so noticeable (that is, at 55 cores, the cores can be 65 but not all, the most loaded usually overheats). I have a Noctua NH-C14 cooler and with it I think under LinX, 65 degrees will warm up easily (and hence the cores up to 75-80). Now I'm thinking about purchasing Noctua NH-D14 or 15 for further experiments. And so the cons are putty under the lid and an unnecessary video core that is turned off immediately during overclocking, well, the price tag.