Skylake Base Frequency Issue

[maverick75]

Intel has just released its 1151 CPU. The problem is, why it base frequency was set 'too low', even lower than pentium series. Personally I'm expecting this new release i5 has 3.6 Ghz at minimum, and 4.5 for i7. Now intel has surprised people, may be not only me.
As example. Intel i5-6400 has 'only' 2.7Ghz, when in turbo it has only 3.3 Ghz at maximum. The price? what the f*** wrong with you intel?

Didn't understand what behind this, what's the point of new socket generation if it even 'lower' than previous gens? (sorry for my stupid question).

[kalniel]

It's not lower in the real world.

[EndlessWaves]

Higher frequency means worse power efficiency. High performance at low frequency is the ideal.

I'm not sure why you were expecting more. Sandy, Ivy and Haswell i5s all ran at 2.9-3.1Ghz four core turbo, exactly the same as the i5-6400 (Sources claim either 3Ghz or 3.1Ghz for turbo four core speed).