Yesterday Intel's new CPU architecture hit the web. You can find reviews all around, for example at AnandTech or Hardware Canucks.

The launch is mainly on paper, since very few retail stores have the new silicon in stock. Gamescom, the massive gaming tradeshow in Cologne, Germany, was used as a platform to capture gamer's attention around the world about the new Skylake. For those who missed the launch event at Gamescom (or the livestream on Twitch) there should be a replay up on YouTube soon. Long marketing story short: the new Skylake architecture is "designed for" gaming and overclocking.

A couple of lucky overclockers had the opportunity to play with Skylake ahead of launch and the results are impressive to say the least. Skylake architecture has produced no less than 7 World Records and 17 Global First Places. Note that we use the terms as defined on our World Record page. So only benchmarks with Global Points enabled are taken into account. That's why the incredible DDR4-4795 memory validation by Chi-Kui Lam, Toppc's 6801 MHz Core i7 6700K CPU Frequency validation, Smoke's 6808 MHz Core i5 6600K CPU Frequency validation or dRweEz' 552 MHz Reference Clock aren't in the table below (in case you're wondering).

Congratulations to the early adopters. From the looks of it, Skylake will be a lot of fun when they hit retail later this month!