High-end Skylake processors to get yet another socket

#5309085

fantaskarsef

2016-07-20 07:36

Not surprised, somebody has to sell new mainboards 🙄

#5309112

slyphnier

2016-07-20 08:51

this time intel naming kinda confusing i thought -X is replacing -E that for enthusiast class then what with the kabylake-X (4cores/16lanes) ? are they planning to merge/release desktop socket to just one type now ?

#5309115

Fox2232

2016-07-20 08:59

It is just to satisfy upgrade itch. Because there will be many people who may move to Zen just because it is new and shiny platform even if it is just small upgrade over their few years old intel system. By releasing new socket, manufacturers will make new boards and they'll flood market with even more products for customer to pick from. (Decreasing chance that someone will jump to AMD's ship.) It is sound market practice. But unless it brings some new features which were not possible otherwise, it is bad for customer.

#5309189

Dellers

2016-07-20 12:31

That late? I was expecting Skylake-E in Q2 like Broadwell-E. After all Skylake is already quite old, and more than two years after the mainstream CPUs is late. May be too late for me then, but I really don't want to buy a new machine right before a new socket comes out either. Like always I assume that the strong dollar won't make the prices in dollars go down, but rather up like usual. It can't be worse than GFX cards though, with a 140% price jump in 5 years because of both exchange rates and increased prices to begin with. I expect the GTX 1080 Ti to be almost 3x as expensive as the 580 was here in Norway, and I guess that Intel will follow that up nicely with the lack of competition.

#5309216

slyphnier

2016-07-20 13:08

That late? I was expecting Skylake-E in Q3 like Broadwell-E. After all Skylake is already quite old, and more than two years after the mainstream CPUs is late. May be too late for me then, but I really don't want to buy a new machine right before a new socket comes out either. Like always I assume that the strong dollar won't make the prices in dollars go down, but rather up like usual. It can't be worse than GFX cards though, with a 140% price jump in 5 years because of both exchange rates and increased prices to begin with. I expect the GTX 1080 Ti to be almost 3x as expensive as the 580 was here in Norway, and I guess that Intel will follow that up nicely with the lack of competition.

its been the trend in intel to release enthusiast class late and rather CPU performance, it kind of shifted to PCH that give "extra" compared to mainstream PCH the enthusiast CPU is just more cores compared to mainsteam rather than big-improvement, even theres improvement its just slight (looking to ivy-haswell-broadwell), except you fully using all cores so not really worth the price/value we can say intel enthusiast platform is more like a bundle (CPU+PCH/mobo) but maybe will change with kabylake-x... if kabylake-x inteded for mainstream then people can choose which cpu they want, either enthusiast version or mainsteam ... considering the socket same, the mobo should support it

#5309266

MainFrame Alpha

2016-07-20 15:04

was this on Intel road map or it is an answer for the ZEN engineering samples surface?! who knows maybe Zen is the one to bring back balance to the force 🤓

#5309274

BLEH!

2016-07-20 15:20

Intel generally support a socket for 2 generations.

#5309301

Dazz

2016-07-20 16:18

Hardly a surprise they have to keep their chipset business going even if it's not really required.

#5309604

GALTARAUJO

2016-07-21 03:32

well after lga 775 all is gone to hell they are changing every year sockets of course it's needed but it would be smarter to make universal socket for example 2000-4000 pin socket and they just add pins to their cpu-s but no they must change it every year like new mobile phones.. :banana:

This is impossible to be done. Can you imagine a 2011-pin socket that is fully compatible with 1150, 1151 and 2011 (both versions)? Anyway, if what this new chipset has to offer is only more SATA/USB ports and LAN, then adoption will be slow, unless CPUs are overwhelmingly powerful, which I do not expect to be the case.

#5309625

EspHack

2016-07-21 06:08

i got confused at the kabylake-x part...

#5309803

Rentesh

2016-07-21 13:19

I too am confused about the Kaby-Lake X part. Quadcore on HEDT in 2017?!?!?!

#5310745

Size_Mick

2016-07-23 07:38

I just purchased an i5 6600k last month on the advice that most games don't take advantage of hyperthreading and many don't take advantage of more than 2 cores. Soon they will have these new CPUs coming out and I'm wondering if anyone thinks things will have changed by then? Or will we (gamers) be just throwing good money away with this?

#5310746

sunnyp_343

2016-07-23 07:58

Intel likes changes.

#5311820

slyphnier

2016-07-26 01:43

I just purchased an i5 6600k last month on the advice that most games don't take advantage of hyperthreading and many don't take advantage of more than 2 cores. Soon they will have these new CPUs coming out and I'm wondering if anyone thinks things will have changed by then? Or will we (gamers) be just throwing good money away with this?

simply depends on how you like to play your game if you feel fine as long you get stable 60FPS+ on 1440p... then mostly ur cpu will sufficient for a while... as long you upgrade your GPU but if you want to get full immerse experience, like 4K, VR with graphic setting at high-ultra ... then your cpu might bottlenecking your system but again that cpu bottleneck might happen if you using like 3way~quadSLI eitherway, rather than CPU... GPU the one that giving major improvement in gaming