Overclocking an i5 6600k on an ASUS B150M-A D3?

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I'm going to build a PC and I'm planning to get an i3 6100 first and upgrade it to the i5 6600k later.But is the ASUS B150M-A D3 capacle of overclocking the i5? Please let me know. Thanks really much!
 
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this is what you are going to do, ask your self: are you going to overclock when you upgrade to the new chip?, do you plan to overclock at some point?
if yes: then get a z170 now no matter what CPU you start with, because you will need that board to overclock
if no: then you buy what ever board you want,B150 or H170 whatever up to you, and then you buy what ever CPU without a K name meaning, i5 6500 or i5 6600 or i7 6700, not 6600k not 6700k because they are meant to be overclocked, and you pay extra for that, so if you dont...
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Or, when you upgrade, you can instead buy a faster i7 6700 CPU. An i7 6700 and B150 motherboard will probably be around the same price as an i5 6600K + cooler + Z170 motherboard (because the K CPU doesn't come with a cooler), and I'd take the i7 any day of the week.
 
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Greetings Kazuma Akane,

The B150 is not going to overclock your i5-6600K. The B150M-A D3 has a VRM 3+2+1 Phase digital power design vs Z170 boards VRM 8+2 power design. Motherboards with more phases tend to have a little more VRM circuit power reserve for CPU overclocking. The VRM phase circuitry on the B150M-A D3 would not be adequate for overclocking, in turn, negating the ability to reach higher CPU core clock speeds.

I agree with Gnuffi, if you are spending your hard earned monies on an unlocked processor (i5-6600k), I would recommend an ASUS Z170/H170 motherboard to maximize your CPU's overclocking potential.
 
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cl-nestor, I think it's completely beside the point, that a B150 board has 3+1 VRM phases, when overclocking is only enabled on Z170. H170 will not work either.

3+1 phases is enough to run any stock Intel CPU, and B150 cannot overclock, so the power phase count is irrelevant.

My suggestion is to get the B150 now and a non-K CPU later, or a much more expensive Z170 board now and a much more expensive K overclocking CPU later. In my opinion, the non-K CPUs offer better value, but overclocking is a hobby, and hobbies often have little to do with practicality.
 
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this is what you are going to do, ask your self: are you going to overclock when you upgrade to the new chip?, do you plan to overclock at some point?
if yes: then get a z170 now no matter what CPU you start with, because you will need that board to overclock
if no: then you buy what ever board you want,B150 or H170 whatever up to you, and then you buy what ever CPU without a K name meaning, i5 6500 or i5 6600 or i7 6700, not 6600k not 6700k because they are meant to be overclocked, and you pay extra for that, so if you dont overclock dont buy them

then you ask yourself: what am i going to use my computer for? what am i going to do with my CPU, program/software/application wise?
if you are doing light task, normal stuff, an i5 6500 is more than enough, could go i5 6600 but truly its not needed for most
if you are doing more heavy loads, rendering, editing, modelling, programming, you want an i7

i repeat for most people and common use the i5 is more than powerful enough, and you pay alot extra for i7, dont pay for if you dont plan to use its functions.

Think about these tings before you decide
 
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Thanks a lot guys! I wasn't expecting tons of answers! So I am planning to overclock my CPU and you guys helped me a lot! Also if I wanna overclock the i5 6600k to 4ghz or over that what cooler should i get?
 
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cryorig h7 or cooler master hyper 212 evo is fine

you could go "over the top" and get noctua nh-d14, but it shouldnt be needed, but it is aaamazing
 
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My 2 cents:

Z170 motherboard - $90
i5 6600K - $245
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO - $30
Total: $365

i7 6700 - $315
H110 motherboard - $50
Total: $355

The i7 6700 comes with its own heatsink, and even though it can't overclock, on average it's going to beat the i5 with any overclock you're likely to get with an air cooler and $90 board, and is cheaper too. Add $15 and move up to a B150 board if you'd like some more bells and whistles.

Overclocking just isn't a very good value these days. It's better to just buy the faster CPU, and not bother the "enthusiast tax" Intel makes you pay to unlock the overclocking "feature".
 
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im sorry but that statement is utter horse
a skylake cheap can overclock extremely well on air, fact proven
so not only can you buy a 6600k +cooler at cheaper than i7 6700 (which run the same stock), you can then overclcok it, increasing its potetial,
considering how few task even benefit from the i7 it is the poorer choice by far, in most circumstances
i5 6500 - i5 6600k - i7 6700k there is literally no point for any1 to even bother with the i7 6700 non k,
because you can get teh k version for so little extra at better potential, so the only 2 chips that should be compared are either 6600k vs 6700k and then ones tasks come in to play,
because why bother with an i7 chip if you never use anything that takes benefit from teh extra threads
and 6700 at 3.7Ghz vs 6700k at 4.6Ghz minimum is such a huge difference, 25%!, its well worth the extra 40bucks, same deal with the i5s

and an i7 is just not worth teh extra cost for something like gaming, the cost to performance simply just doesnt add up vs teh i5 6500 or i5 6600k
 
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I'm generally in agreement with you, that an i5 6500 is a better value for gaming. A 6600K + Z motherboard + cooler + bigger power supply approaches twice the cost of a 6500 and cheap board. However, there are some games that do show benefit from the i7's 8 threads, and they're becoming more and more common.

Not to say that both CPUs don't easily deliver smooth framerates in 99% of games. The 6700 will probably age better, though.
 
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yea but its still only like.. 1 game out of 20.. sadly... lazy devs *snark*.. 😉 hopefully vulcan will take care of that

 
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Oh and just a question: If i replace a motherboard and the cpu and then i plug everything back i should be able to have all my data because it's stored in the hard drive and ssd , right?
Also thanks so much guys, especially Gnuffi!
 
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well.. sorta.. the data will be there,, but if windows was installed under 1 "set", it will have its drivers and such, for that "set",
so if you just plug in your windows hdd to a new mobo and cpu it very likely wont be too happy since its "new" and it was doing business with the old guy before

pure data drive no problem, but hdd with OS on gets tricky, there is some long complicated procedure to make sure when you boot up all will be fine,
but tbh, its way easier just to take all the data you want from the drive, to an external or secondary internal, then wipe the drive clean and go from fresh
takes a few mins (if you have the extra hard drive to transfer too ofc) and ready to go
 
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Thanks! And what about my second question?

 
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alrighty if you scroll up a few post you will see i mentioned "stuff to consider and think about before choosing CPU"

that is because I5 6600k is 4 cores 4 thread, and i7 6700k is 4 cores but 8 threads
this means that in program A that use 1 core, both CPU's will perform the same if clocked at same speed
and so and so up to 4 cores
but if a program is designed to take advantage of the the extra 4 threads from the i7, then that CPU will perform better in that job
also if a program is coded to better spread the workload across cores but only use few cores, the i7 will have more threads per core to handle the job,
say job C uses 2 cores, great, both i5 and i7 have plenty, but, job C is able to take use of extra threads, so it can share the work load on i7 2 cores but 4 threads, instead of only 2cores 2threads on i5
its very basic rudimentary explanation and not 100% technically accurate how im explaining it but it should give you a basic idea of what is going on

what it means is: if you know, you will never use those "heavy" task that take use of i7, then dont buy it, because tou dont need or plan to, why spend that much extra money, when i5 6600k is perfectly fine
a scenario for that would be gaming, browsing normal stuff, school, and office stuff. i7 would be waste of money there

if you do editing, rendering, encoding, modelling, programming, then the i7 is better than the i5

some say "get i7 for future proof, games will take better use of it later", i say, "it has been 10 years and still only about 1 out of 20games use i7 benefits" so what are the chances that will change any time "soon" 😉

so there is 2 things to consider, do you "need" the i7 over teh i5? or is money no problem/care at all? get teh i7
if you dont need it, and you would like to save the 120$, then get i5 6600k instead 😉

my brother for instance chose teh i7 6700k, because he dont care about money and just "wanted the best", despite he never use anything that take use of it.. and he wont even overclock hahah
 
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Thanks really much!
Now I pretty much got an idea of what's going on!
Thanks again!
 
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any time
and enjoy your build when its time :)
 
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for getting it above 4ghz i would suggest higher end coolers, , cryrig and coolermaster should be enough for up to atleast 4ghz, since skylake gets cooled fast even on air (h7 is better than c7 tho)

but above, if you plan to reach that top 4.4ghz goal, for air i would suggest noctua nh-d14, or a watercooling solution
(again its not 100% certain your chip can reach that high since chips vary, 4ghz is np tho)
 
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