Intel Pentium Anniversary Edition Unlocked Version Supported by Intel 8 and 9 Series Chipsets

[Boomstick777]

From this article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyl...-fantastic-new-processors-for-pc-enthusiasts/

The final product that should be hugely interesting to enthusiasts is that of an Intel Pentium Anniversary Edition-labelled processor. The most fascinating feature with the new product is that there will be an unlocked version allowing you to overclock it to get more performance.

Intel hasn’t allowed overclocking on its budget range of processors for several generations and this could provide a huge boost to the enthusiast scene. At the moment, the only way to achieve significant overclocks is with a K-series CPU such as the Core i5-4670K. However, these are expensive, so in the past, it’s been very popular for enthusiasts to buy a cheaper processor and overclock it to the same speed as a more expensive model.

How far the new unlocked Pentium can be overclocked will be fascinating to see but this could herald a new age of enthusiast products from Intel that don’t just focus on the $200+ segment. As usual, let me know your thoughts on this in the comments.

 

[wazza300]

would be interesting to see how far they clock,currently 105/106bclk is the most I could do with Pentium g620 locked multi's

they do run ram at 2133mhz+ though

 

[Boomstick777]

I imagine they will be fully unlocked, so as far as the volts and mobo will allows. 5.0Ghz Pentium anyone? Sad thing is an overclocked Pentium would smoke all of AMD's 'High end desktop' chips.. Plz start being competitive AMD..

 

[wazza300]

yh the skys the limit with unlocked multi

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I imagine they will be fully unlocked, so as far as the volts and mobo will allows. 5.0Ghz Pentium anyone? Sad thing is an overclocked Pentium would smoke all of AMD's 'High end desktop' chips.. Plz start being competitive AMD..

It would also "smoke" many of the much more expensive Intel chips too!

Core i3 CPUs,probably some Core i5 CPUs too going by what you say. OFC,you ignore that and put more of your patented spin on it.

You need to feel more secure about your own purchase decisions TBH.

 

[panyan]

that could be very interesting

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

that could be very interesting

If the price is right,it looks like the Core i3 and maybe even lower end Core i5 CPUs could be under threat.

So it does make me wonder how much this edition will cost,and what the availability will be like.

The fact its not K series might indicate a more limited run.

Its a tad annoying its not a K series Core i3 though. That would be bloody awesome. It would mean many people would not need a Core i5,just like in the good old days of the Core i5 530.

I suspect Intel know this so have not included HT.

 

[snips86x]

Looking forward to this!!

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Can the B85 motherboards still overclock?? I know some companies found a way to enable overclocking on them - it means you could get a £50 motherboard instead of a £70+ one.

 

[Boomstick777]

It would also "smoke" many of the much more expensive Intel chips too!

Core i3 CPUs,probably Core i5 CPUs too going by what you say. OFC,you ignore that and put more of your patented spin on it.

You need to feel more secure about your own purchase decisions TBH.

Same as usual Cat. Always getting weird and personal.

You need to feel more secure about your own purchase decisions

So weird. We have AMD APU's and GPU's here. It comes across like you feel insecure by feeling the need to troll any post I make where I don't praise AMD for lackluster CPU's.

Like you said an unlocked Pentium could surpass the locked Intel chips. Obviously the other unlocked Intel chips would clock as well and have more cores. Whereas even clocked AMD's IPC is so weak at this point that a unlocked Pentium Haswell would be much faster. AMD's only saving grace was offering cheap unlocked CPU's that although crap appealed to the budget gamer. Now Intel launching unlocked Pentium's AMD's only saving grace has gone out the window..

I have no bias, would like AMD to put something decent out in the CPU space. My opinion shouldn't bother you so much. Get over yourself bud.

 

[Boomstick777]

that could be very interesting

Looking forward to this!!

+1

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Same as usual Cat. Always getting weird and personal. So weird. We have AMD APU's and GPU's here. It comes across like you feel insecure by feeling the need to troll any post I make where I don't praise AMD for lackluster CPU's.

Like you said an unlocked Pentium could surpass the locked Intel chips. Obviously the other unlocked Intel chips would clock as well and have more cores. Whereas even clocked AMD's IPC is so weak at this point that a unlocked Pentium Haswell would be much faster.

I have no bias, would like AMD to put something decent out in the CPU space. My opinion shouldn't bother you so much. Get over yourself bud.

Your the one is insecure and do the same thing in every thread. You do it in the CPU section,GPU section,build section,everywhere. I am not the only one who has noticed it - you even followed me into another thread in a section you never posted in that much either.

You troll repeatedly,always trying to have a sleight at any product AMD makes,since you love Intel and Nvidia products. AMD CPUs are doomed. AMD GPUs are doomed,etc. When people post to counter your points even with data, you go "la!la!la!la!" all the time. I think you hate AMD the most of any poster on any UK forum I have seen in the last year,and I post on almost all of them. Your attitude towards any AMD product,is that they are doomed or will be doomed soon.

Its like that post in this thread. You had a sleight at AMD CPUs,but NOT at the locked Intel Core i3 CPUs let alone the low end Core i5 CPUs which would be also equally under threat. You say your unbiased,but your not otherwise you would have mentioned them too in the same post. It took me to mention them first.

Not any of the other posters(up to this post),felt the need to even mention AMD,and that actually thought it was potentially cool CPU to own. I might get one myself if the price is OK(unless I spent my dosh on something else by that time).

You sound like some of the people over on Anandtech forums.

I have a Xeon E3 and a GTX660,so I don't need to feel insecure. I even had a Core i3 and Q6600 before that CPU. AMD APU rig for a family member. HD5850 1GB before the GTX660 and a 8800GTS 512MB before that. That because AMD for years were not that competitive due to lack of mini-ITX motherboards,until late 2012,and I criticised them a lot for not getting off their arse about it even with their APUs,and even then the choice is limited and expensive. I also have built/assembled many Core/FX/cheaper CPU rigs too,so actually have a good idea of what the pros and cons of the CPUs are from actually trying out some of the rigs myself.

I have also helped 100s of people with builds on multiple forums,ie,pushed people from AMD to Intel,Intel to AMD,AMD to Nvidia,Nvidia to AMD,etc since 2006.

However,it seems every other posts you make is an attack on AMD CPUs or their graphics cards,making wide generalisations 100% of the time. It happens with consistency in every OcUK sub-forum you post in.

Anyway you can go back to getting that feel good factor. I have said what I wanted to say in this thread.

 

[Davedree]

Not being funny cat but you do the same too, even when I correct you sometimes too, Like the motherboard budget the other day in that 8350 to 4770k thread.
Or another thread You see me as being anti-amd when I was comparing phenom II vs fx8320 in another thread stating that an fx needs to be in the 4.8ghz range and above to show worthwile gains over an x4/x6 thuban. yet I was the only person on here who has been showing real data comparisons between and intel 2600k a phenom II b55 and a fx8320.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Not being funny cat but you do the same too, even when I correct you sometimes too, Like the motherboard budget the other day in that 8350 to 4770k thread.

??

You mean this set of posts regarding the motherboard:

That board is being pushed quite a bit though - its a £35 to £40 one with a 4+1 phase VRM.

It's quite a capable board though for a matx though.apm mode, Switchable modules, core unlock.
8pin 12v atx, 4 mosfets per 2 capacitors per each coil, heatsinked. Put it this way it has more potential than the bigger brother stinker known as ga990fxa ud3 rev3, although the rev 4 is good now.
Don"t get me wrong you can't beat an Asus digi6+2 or good 8+2, this board is not high end but even if you push it too hard it has regulation built in, this occurs around 1.45v at 8Cores fully loaded so you can't blow it. Trust me i've given it abuse for nearly 4 months now
It comes down to silicon lottery of course, but 3.8ghz on my fx8320 only needs 1.18v, 4.2ghz needs 1.25v,etc. Except handbrake no application or game is going to max the cores on cpu usage, if it did then it's time for an upgrade.

Which £75 990fx board are you stating just out of curiosity? If msi gda65 then this 78lmt embarrasses it as msi doesn't clock well or offer offset voltage overclocking, the asrock extreme 3 is almost comparable though.

The Asus and Gigabyte enthusiast 970 motherboards are well under £70 now.

£70 there around yes I agree, but back in time to nov/dec 2013 it was a different story. To fit my needs for my situation I wanted to see how far a £38 MATX board could be pushed and compare phenom II vs fx 43,fx63,fx83 clock for clock and overclocking, What's the problem with that? I'm very skilled and knowledgable in particular amd overclocking, have been using amd since the k6II 500.
iF you've searched previous posts of mine way back you'll see I recommended buying 8+2 or digi for the fx bulldozer/piledriver. People weren't so aware of the throttling issues back in those days, and 4+1 boards at that time usually didn't even have a heatsink on the vrms and barely supported phenom II x4's. The infamous 4+1 situations were the msi's as they didn't have any vrm over-current regulation, and the asrock extreme 3 which didn't have a heatsink or regulation.

Most people still think 4+1/2 boards can't even support an fx8, or that they can't even overclock. I've proved that in the 78lmt's siutation it can offer midrange overclocking potential, providing you don't take the ****
Those that don't believe it'll survive, well we'll see but 4 months in it's still holding 4.8ghz because my cpu happens to be a good one and doesn't suck juice. I've even completed benches of cinebench at 5ghz,
If you need over 1.4v volts and your fx8/6 struggles to scale over 4.6-4.7ghz at this voltage then you need a sabertooth or a later refined fx cpu, end of.

Yes the 970 higher end boards at £70+ are slightly better boards for double the price, The cheaper 970 boards are not any good.
the higher end 970 vs silicon lottery will hit the same 4.6-4.8+ higher on an fx8 comfortably,

I needed a board that was cheap to unlock a Callisto x2 and cope with a moderate fx 6/8. I didn't fancy spending at the time £90 on an asus ma597 evo r2 when it doesn't feature core unlock. If i didn't need to do comparsions between phenom II and fx then I would have gone with an evo R2.
Back in november/dec the prices and choice of boards and stocking availability of the boards were a different situation, to now. It was £130 for an ga990fx ud3 rev4, The inferior ga970 ds3p was £50-£58, the asus m5a97 £60-70 is only 4+2 the £55-60 m5a97 le R2 unheatsinked vrms and no core unlock.

Now though we have the £70 970a ud3 8+2/ or m5a97 evo r2 6+2 £75
These bar the core unlocking support for the asus would be my choice for budget.
But lets not forget the 78lmt is micro atx, and for a little board packs a punch for its price, you cannot dispute that

Where was I doubting what you said,I said it was being pushed,even you admitted a better board would give bigger gains!

Or another thread You see me as being anti-amd when I was comparing phenom II vs fx8320 in another thread stating that an fx needs to be in the 4.8ghz range and above to show worthwile gains over an x4/x6 thuban. yet I was the only person on here who has been showing real data comparisons between and intel 2600k a phenom II b55 and a fx8320.

Funny how you say that when Boomstick said NO AMD CPU is worth it for gaming,and also AMD would be at best midrange due to Maxwell.

Plus he kept for a time period saying his Pentium CPU was better than any AMD CPU for quite a while. Every other thread he was doing it for quite a while. Look.

I am not the only one who said it. Every post he makes is a sleight at AMD. He does it repeatedly. CPUs. Graphics cards,etc.

That was after people showed him data too.

 

[Davedree]

??

You mean this set of posts regarding the motherboard:

yeah that one Cat, It's kinda like well I don't care that you've pushed the boundaries of something to see it's max potential, or that the board can take the load, but anyway £70 gets you better.

Yes, yes it can but this a matx £38 board

 

[Davedree]

Cat without being personal I did have a disagrement with broomstick back on the kaveri thread ages ago due to the gpu performance, he did also promote the intel dual core haswell vs amd gaming situation too in another type of thread.

He's welcome to his own opinons, but I think he's just having fun with his sweeping statements. Although he may be rubbing people up the wrong way.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

yeah that one Cat, It's kinda like well I don't care that you've pushed the boundaries of something to see it's max potential, or that the board can take the load, but anyway £70 gets you better.

Yes, yes it can but this a matx £38 board

Its not that but more the case,we had some people use the low end boards(on here and another forum) and the performance was all over the place. Yet when they got a 970 board they seemed to get better performance. There are a few threads here,and a few other forums. Ultimately,I might have had a negative viewpoint of some of the cheap motherboards with the FX8320.

But ultimately I am happy you did the test - didn't mean to be negative about your work.

Cat without being personal I did have a disagrement with broomstick back on the kaveri thread ages ago due to the gpu performance, he did also promote the intel dual core haswell vs amd gaming situation too in another type of thread.

He's welcome to his own opinons, but I think he's just having fun with his sweeping statements. Although he may be rubbing people up the wrong way.

If it were just CPUs,then it would be kind of,fair enough. It even extends to graphics cards made by AMD too.

 

[Davedree]

That's fine Cat totally get that, 970 higher end boards i think have better sata ports and more usb3 etc, better chipset for sure,
So £70 is where to aim for, but for pure budget the 78lmt and an fx6,fx8 is a great little board and cpu package.

 

[Boomstick777]

Every time you troll from now Cat I'll just report you. No point replying to you. You just come across as some kind of bitter fan boy, that can't tolerate anybody Else's opinion that isn't pro AMD everything. GPU's APU's are ok, but the AMD CPU is really weak and behind. They need an update, I would like to see an competitive AMD again. This obviously bothers you and you feel the need to troll because of it, but this is your issue not mine.

 

[Boomstick777]

Cat without being personal I did have a disagrement with broomstick back on the kaveri thread ages ago due to the gpu performance, he did also promote the intel dual core haswell vs amd gaming situation too in another type of thread.

He's welcome to his own opinons, but I think he's just having fun with his sweeping statements. Although he may be rubbing people up the wrong way.

Yeah we all have different opinions, and have a lil fun with some of our posts but it's not serious. There's no need to ever get personal about it. Cat always seems to take things personal and then makes posts that are based on his own opinions of peoples intent when posting. 'Projecting' I think they call it

I just won't reply to him anyway. I'll be smashing up that report button instead.