Intel Core i7-6950X Engineering Sample Spotted and Sells for $1950

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/02/2016 08:19 AM | source: | 26 comment(s)

We see it often, sometimes engineering samples make their way to e-bay prior to being released. One lucky dude was able to get his hands on a Core i7-6950X, the new ten-core processor. It came at a price though, $1950 USD.

The photos back up the product, but also tell a thing about clock frequency, it seems that that base clock fro the product is just 3.00 GHz (with a Boost clock to be higher). The CPU gets a 140W TDP rating.

Broadwell-E will be tied to the X99 chipset as the website mentions as these processors will be tied towards socket LGA2011-v3. That would be good news for X99 owners as only a BIOS update will be required to get the new processors supported.

Processor	Cores/threads	Clock frequency	L3-cache	Socket
Intel Core i7-6950X	10/20	3GHz	25MB	LGA2011-v3
Intel Core i7-6900K	8/16	3,3GHz	20MB	LGA2011-v3
Intel Core i7-6850K	6/12	3,6GHz	15MB	LGA2011-v3
Intel Core i7-6800K	6/12	3,4GHz	15MB	LGA2011-v3

Four models Broadwell-E processors will be released, the i7-6950X, i7-6900K, i7-6850K and i7- 6800K. That Core i7-6950X thus is the flagship CPU. X is Extreme with totally unlocked multipliers and voltages, the K models are more or less the same with a slightly lower voltage ceiling. All models will get some Turbo (dynamic clock frequency) allowance as well. To date it is unknown when the new processors will be released, but we think the Computex time-frame is a valid suggestion.

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Sukovsky
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#5265688 Posted on: 05/02/2016 09:54 AM

AMD please rise again. So sick of this overpriced stuff without progress. I mostly game and still see zero reason for upgrading my 4 year old system.

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#5265693 Posted on: 05/02/2016 10:05 AM

Well I wouldn't even buy that ES even if I wanted a Broadwell-E 6950X right now.

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#5265733 Posted on: 05/02/2016 11:45 AM

I'm quite happy with my good old i7 2600k cpu which easily overclocks to 4.6/4.7GHz on air...

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#5265741 Posted on: 05/02/2016 12:12 PM

But them E5-2670 ES deals for 70 bucks right now, jfc.

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#5265765 Posted on: 05/02/2016 01:22 PM

AMD please rise again. So sick of this overpriced stuff without progress. I mostly game and still see zero reason for upgrading my 4 year old system.

Like 95% of games we play are GPU bottlenecked, not CPU. Even if newer processors were double the speed of older ones, there would be like no visible difference anyway.

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#5265771 Posted on: 05/02/2016 01:52 PM

Finally may take the plunge and upgrade my 3960x, RIVE machine. Been a trusty sidekick for a long time. I still do not really care for any of the motherboards on the new platform though so we shall see.
Also, lot of people do other things that are cpu intensive on their gaming machine, so this cpu would be great in that regard.

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#5265776 Posted on: 05/02/2016 02:11 PM

I think I'd go for the 6850K - highest frequency plus more than enough cores/threads, 6/12!

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#5265791 Posted on: 05/02/2016 02:52 PM

I'm quite happy with my good old i7 2600k cpu which easily overclocks to 4.6/4.7GHz on air...

That chip will go down in history as being one of the most robust and reliable chips Intel ever released.

It was a friggin' steal.

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#5265797 Posted on: 05/02/2016 03:06 PM

That chip will go down in history as being one of the most robust and reliable chips Intel ever released.

It was a friggin' steal.

Yes it will, still loving my 2600K and never needed to OC yet.

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#5265810 Posted on: 05/02/2016 03:46 PM

That chip will go down in history as being one of the most robust and reliable chips Intel ever released.

It was a friggin' steal.

Its not that old to go in history.

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#5265854 Posted on: 05/02/2016 05:00 PM

I don't see anything reasonable to convince me to upgrade my trusty 3930K yet.

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#5265868 Posted on: 05/02/2016 05:31 PM

I'm ok with this, no need to feed the constant upgrade every year or two, if the gaming industry is ok with the hardware I'm ok not spending money on my PC, just buy a bicycle a surf board, go on a travel, do something different.

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#5265892 Posted on: 05/02/2016 06:03 PM

I'm really looking forward to a new CPU, but Intel is being either boring with Kaby Lake or Very Expensive with its interesting CPUs... so am looking forward to seeing what AMD brings to the table later this year.

To be honest I am partly after the power savings at idle while having something respectably stronger than what I have now (Xeon X5680 6c/12t @ 3.8GHz++) at doing stuff like encoding video etc (and good for games ofc!)

My current PC pulls about 150watts at desktop. Over a year that power bill really gets jacked up, keeps me thinking each year that wasted power could be sunk into a newer gen setup.

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#5265909 Posted on: 05/02/2016 06:56 PM

Still rocking my i7-3930K with no problem @4.8GHZ. Just why on earth are the new low ends (6800K6850K)of these beasts still just 6core?Seriously, my CPU is 32nm all the new ones are at 14nm..5years later and very little has changed although cores have shrinked so much. Absolutely no interest after 5 years of using a high end CPU. Intel you are pi$$ing me off.I could really use extra cores for virtualization and not having to sacrifice a limb for it.

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#5265917 Posted on: 05/02/2016 07:09 PM

Intel you are pi$$ing me off.I could really use extra cores for virtualization and not having to sacrifice a limb for it.

I picked up this 5820k new for $300~. What are you smoking

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