Thanks for the tip.

I'm leaning towards a Fractal Define R5 as the case - shouldn't be a problem. I was a little worried about cooling options for both a flagship GPU and watercooling (maybe) the CPU. I guess I should see what folks in the wild are doing with Skylakes first. I'm not going to push the edge of overclocking, but just a modest bump over stock/turbo. The Noctua (Air) may be good enough for what I intend.

Just don't know yet. Waiting for an i7-6700k in stock notice from Newegg.

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Posted by UltimateHog

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Member since Dec 2011

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Posted on 8/10/15 at 8:02 pm to Ace Midnight

I already have my MSI Gaming M7 delivered, have the 6600K preordered from Amazon but still no release date or delivery estimate, so this waiting game is difficult. (and I just noticed the 6600K is for sale in Stock on NewEgg)

I'm keeping my Corsair H80i for cooling my Skylake, doesn't need anything extra to fit, and it's served we well since I got it. I'll do modest over clocking as well, probably around 4.5GHz and I have 3000MHz RAM ready to go as well.

The Fury X cooler is phenomenal, very high quality and the fan it comes with is a Scythe Gentle Typhoon. I added one of my extra fans to the front as well and it stays extremely cool averaging around 52C.

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Posted by ILikeLSUToo

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Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:38 pm to Ace Midnight

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Waiting for an i7-6700k in stock notice from Newegg.

You know, if it's helpful for your true monitor/GPU aspirations, you'll get the same life and performance (gaming-wise) from the $100 cheaper 6600K. I have an i7 myself, and it's maybe once in a blue moon where hyperthreading actually does anything worthwhile, and by worthwhile, I mean shave a few seconds off encoding time.

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