Skylake-X will be launched at Gamescom 2017
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Undying
Is it just me or lately this Intel CPU's sounds uninteresting?
BLEH!
I'm waiting for Zen's performance before upgrading anything. This will just be an incremental upgrade over HW-E and BW-E.
BangTail
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 🙄).
/Yawn
PS: Please start competing AMD (or anybody else for that matter).
chispy
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 :3eyes:
Undying
5960x = 1,000$
6950x = 1,750$
7950/60x = ???
nevcairiel
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.
BuildeR2
5960x = 1,000$
6950x = 1,750$
7950/60x = Child, most likely firstborn.
schmidtbag
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.
ubercake
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?
-Tj-
hah I got the same impression.
VENGEANCE
intel is crazy with the pricing...f that..support amd
kosh_neranek
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
PrMinisterGR
After two mainstream chipset refreshes, you get a pro chipset refresh.
It has nothing to do with tech, it's a sales schedule.
BangTail
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.
cryohellinc
+1
Wait for 8700k guys. besides it will have a new manufacturing process, resulting in PROBABLY major performance increase. 🤓
leefuji
I just recently bought an X99 mobo+i7 6800k ... should I be concerned about this new stuff coming out?
schmidtbag
No, why? It'd likely have some massive price increase for maybe a 1% performance increase.
I'd say you're fine.
-Tj-
what gpu are you planing to get?
And like schmidtbag said, dont worry about it, you will be ok for the next few years, you can also OC later to 4.3 - 4.5ghz 🤓
leefuji
@-TJ- @SchmidtBag
That's cool. I was just wondering if it's gonna be some massive breakthough but I guess with that marginal performance increase and price I'm good for a while as you guys mentioned.
As far as GPU I'm waiting for my cash stack to go up a little bit and hopefully I'll get a GTX 1080 ....... or should I wait for a GTX 1080ti ?!
-Tj-
If I can go by this leaked info, then wait a bit, 1080TI is apparently released on 21.12.2016.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2877/geforce-gtx-1080-ti
