Reviewers Liked
- Quickest Intel quad-core yet
- Support for DDR4, as well as DDR3 in its low-voltage flavour
- Reasonable IPC improvement
- Good performance in gaming (excluding early software bugs), especially when factoring in the i5-6600K's pricing
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Not a major upgrade over the i7-4790K
- Expensive
- Intel's product strategy has gone walkies
- Needs a new platform
- 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes on the CPU would have been better for two graphics cards and a low-latency PCIe SSD