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Skylake-X will be launched at Gamescom 2017
While Kaby Lake is released early next month another processors series is already luring in its corner, the enthusiast platform Skylake-X and perhaps Kaby Lake-X series.
According to DigiTimes these puppies will get launched in Q3 2017, lining up with gamescom. The CPUs will require you to AGAIN purchase a new motherboard as they will AGAIN use a new socket, LGA2066 . The platform has support for DDR4 memory and reportedly would be called X299.
The platform for all this is called Basin Falls platform and includes new processors and is merely a chipset refresh with a new socket . Socket R4 (LGA2066) as the official code name reads is getting 2,066 pins and provides a home to two new Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X series.
Skylake-X will include six , eight and ten core CPUs with a TDP around 140 watts and thus follow Broadwell-E . Under the name Kaby Lake-X there are also will be quad-cores for socket 2066, with fewer PCI Express lanes and only two memory channels. Also for Kaby Lake-X Turbo Boost 3.0 is not supported. There will also be a new chipset which includes ten integrated USB 3.0 ports and eight SATA600 ports. It is still unclear whether USB 3.1 will also be part of the chipset. We do know that there are up to 24 PCI Express 3.0 lanes , and a built-in Intel LAN controller are present.
At CES 2017, Intel is expected to unveil processors including Core i7-7700K/7700, Core i5-7600K/7600/7500, Core i3-7320/7300/7100, Pentium G4620/4500/4560 and Celeron G3950/3930 as well as its low-power models including the Core i7-7700T. Intel's Z270 and H270 chipsets will also make their debut at the show.
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#5368686 Posted on: 12/09/2016 02:12 PM
I'm waiting for Zen's performance before upgrading anything. This will just be an incremental upgrade over HW-E and BW-E.
I'm waiting for Zen's performance before upgrading anything. This will just be an incremental upgrade over HW-E and BW-E.
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#5368704 Posted on: 12/09/2016 02:31 PM
So, it requires a new board, will likely be stupidly expensive and offer very limited performance gains over the previous generation(s) (with the obvious exception of Cinebench and WinRAR :rolleyes
.
/Yawn
PS: Please start competing AMD (or anybody else for that matter).
So, it requires a new board, will likely be stupidly expensive and offer very limited performance gains over the previous generation(s) (with the obvious exception of Cinebench and WinRAR :rolleyes
.
/Yawn
PS: Please start competing AMD (or anybody else for that matter).
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#5368720 Posted on: 12/09/2016 02:52 PM
Another new socket meaning a new motherboard along with this new cpus and i expect the prices of this cpus to go up substantially again :/ , wtf Intel ... why the need of so many sockets
Another new socket meaning a new motherboard along with this new cpus and i expect the prices of this cpus to go up substantially again :/ , wtf Intel ... why the need of so many sockets
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#5368723 Posted on: 12/09/2016 02:55 PM
5960x = 1,000$
6950x = 1,750$
7950/60x = ???
5960x = 1,000$
6950x = 1,750$
7950/60x = ???
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#5368734 Posted on: 12/09/2016 03:15 PM
Whats with the emphasis on "AGAIN" having to buy a new motherboard?
The enthusiast platform has a far longer lifespan then the consumer platform, and as such Broadwell-E didn't need a new board, just UEFI updates, but at this point its lifespan has ended, and a new one takes its place - which is a good thing really, the X99 chipset has gotten old from a feature standpoint.
Whats with the emphasis on "AGAIN" having to buy a new motherboard?
The enthusiast platform has a far longer lifespan then the consumer platform, and as such Broadwell-E didn't need a new board, just UEFI updates, but at this point its lifespan has ended, and a new one takes its place - which is a good thing really, the X99 chipset has gotten old from a feature standpoint.
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#5368736 Posted on: 12/09/2016 03:17 PM
5960x = 1,000$
6950x = 1,750$
7950/60x = ???
5960x = 1,000$
6950x = 1,750$
7950/60x = Child, most likely firstborn.
5960x = 1,000$
6950x = 1,750$
7950/60x = ???
5960x = 1,000$
6950x = 1,750$
7950/60x = Child, most likely firstborn.
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#5368742 Posted on: 12/09/2016 03:34 PM
The only consumer-level Intel CPU that has been of anybody's interest in the past couple years is that overclockable i3. Sure, Skylake being DDR4 and having a nice IGP is a little interesting, but DDR4 support was inevitable and we enthusiasts don't care so much about IGPs.
I really just want Intel to release an overclockable 6-core i5.
Is it just me or lately this Intel CPU's sounds uninteresting?
The only consumer-level Intel CPU that has been of anybody's interest in the past couple years is that overclockable i3. Sure, Skylake being DDR4 and having a nice IGP is a little interesting, but DDR4 support was inevitable and we enthusiasts don't care so much about IGPs.
I really just want Intel to release an overclockable 6-core i5.
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#5368743 Posted on: 12/09/2016 03:35 PM
So, it requires a new board, will likely be stupidly expensive and offer very limited performance gains over the previous generation(s) (with the obvious exception of Cinebench and WinRAR :rolleyes.
/Yawn
PS: Please start competing AMD (or anybody else for that matter).
That's what I was thinking. Motherboards are doing less than ever now with many controllers moving to the CPU. Why do the motherboard prices keep going up?
So, it requires a new board, will likely be stupidly expensive and offer very limited performance gains over the previous generation(s) (with the obvious exception of Cinebench and WinRAR :rolleyes
.
/Yawn
PS: Please start competing AMD (or anybody else for that matter).
That's what I was thinking. Motherboards are doing less than ever now with many controllers moving to the CPU. Why do the motherboard prices keep going up?
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#5368744 Posted on: 12/09/2016 03:36 PM
hah I got the same impression.
Is it just me or lately this Intel CPU's sounds uninteresting?
hah I got the same impression.
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#5368748 Posted on: 12/09/2016 03:44 PM
intel is crazy with the pricing...f that..support amd
intel is crazy with the pricing...f that..support amd
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#5368771 Posted on: 12/09/2016 04:29 PM
My Sandy-E is getting old and am really thinking of an upgrade. But looking at this am only thinking am gonna start praying for ZEN. WTF? My 5+year old system is still ticking at 4.8 GHZ and intel has not brought anything interesting in 5 years. DDR4..ok 24 PCIe lanes?!? down from 40? Still not sure if usb 3.1 will be in? another CPU socket? C'mon , taking a piss is one thing but this is spitting into our faces.Sad..just sad
My Sandy-E is getting old and am really thinking of an upgrade. But looking at this am only thinking am gonna start praying for ZEN. WTF? My 5+year old system is still ticking at 4.8 GHZ and intel has not brought anything interesting in 5 years. DDR4..ok 24 PCIe lanes?!? down from 40? Still not sure if usb 3.1 will be in? another CPU socket? C'mon , taking a piss is one thing but this is spitting into our faces.Sad..just sad
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#5368776 Posted on: 12/09/2016 04:33 PM
After two mainstream chipset refreshes, you get a pro chipset refresh.
It has nothing to do with tech, it's a sales schedule.
After two mainstream chipset refreshes, you get a pro chipset refresh.
It has nothing to do with tech, it's a sales schedule.
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#5368777 Posted on: 12/09/2016 04:34 PM
I still have my 3930K and my 4960X in other boxes and neither of them are that far outside of the 5960X's performance with the exception of very specific tasks, synthetic benchmarks and archiving software.
That's what I was thinking. Motherboards are doing less than ever now with many controllers moving to the CPU. Why do the motherboard prices keep going up?
I still have my 3930K and my 4960X in other boxes and neither of them are that far outside of the 5960X's performance with the exception of very specific tasks, synthetic benchmarks and archiving software.
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#5368781 Posted on: 12/09/2016 04:35 PM
After two mainstream chipset refreshes, you get a pro chipset refresh.
It has nothing to do with tech, it's a sales schedule.
+1
Wait for 8700k guys. besides it will have a new manufacturing process, resulting in PROBABLY major performance increase.
After two mainstream chipset refreshes, you get a pro chipset refresh.
It has nothing to do with tech, it's a sales schedule.
+1
Wait for 8700k guys. besides it will have a new manufacturing process, resulting in PROBABLY major performance increase.
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Is it just me or lately this Intel CPU's sounds uninteresting?