Intel pledges Skylake ramp in 2015: Intel to begin manufacturing its Skylake processors in 2015

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 19 Oct 2014 at 09:20

So I assume my Xeon E3 1230 V2/Core i7 3770 should be OK for the next year or so??

Boomstick777 · 19 Oct 2014 at 21:02

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
So I assume my Xeon E3 1230 V2/Core i7 3770 should be OK for the next year or so??

If you're just gaming etc, will probably be ok for the next 3-5 years

, especially with upcoming DirectX 12 taking the pressure of the CPU..

Let's be honest, we rarely buy out of pure need, eventually one of the new and shiny chips that come along you will want it whether you need it or not, for me it was X99 + 5820K

edscdk · 19 Oct 2014 at 21:35

Dave2150 said:
Next Intel CPU's have double the cores, cache and ddr4, which when all combined will be far more powerful than you 'highly clocked haswell'.

What so many games being multi-threaded now, plus all new games ported from ps4/xb1 will use all 8 cores, Haswell is in no way future proof imo.

i predict they will be 10 - 15% faster than current cpus at the same price... they have no reason to ram up performance...

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 20 Oct 2014 at 00:22

Boomstick777 said:
If you're just gaming etc, will probably be ok for the next 3-5 years , especially with upcoming DirectX 12 taking the pressure of the CPU..

Let's be honest, we rarely buy out of pure need, eventually one of the new and shiny chips that come along you will want it whether you need it or not, for me it was X99 + 5820K

I will be limited to the consumer sockets for a while,as I prefer SFF builds. Most of my usage is for gaming and image work anyway.

Boomstick777 · 20 Oct 2014 at 01:52

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I will be limited to the consumer sockets for a while,as I prefer SFF builds. Most of my usage is for gaming and image work anyway.

Yeah stick with the Xeon, can't beat the E3's on value tbh. Performance per watt is awesome.

WingZero30 · 20 Oct 2014 at 21:03

Intel’s Skylake-S ES-1(Engineering Sample) processors pictured

http://wccftech.com/intel-14nm-skylakes-engineering-samples-spotted/

The processors will feature a 2.3Ghz Core Clock and a 2.9Ghz Turbo Clock. Another configuration will have 2.2 Ghz Core Clock with 2.4Ghz of Turbo. TDP will be 95W and 80W respectively

Seems kinda low clock speed for a future next gen processor.

Dicehunter · 21 Oct 2014 at 02:23

What about Broadwell ? The whole point of releasing the Z97 platform was for the new CPU's :-/

Sylver123 · 21 Oct 2014 at 04:37

By the looks of it the first desktop Skylake processors won't be high performance parts and will be more
for power saving and with a GPU built in than anything else.

It is more than likely Intel will unleash the full performance potential of Skylake for the desktop thought it
will probably be released on a completely new socket sometime in 2016 or whenever they think it is needed.

I still believe the x99 platform is the only way to go for now until then if you want high performance parts.

On Holiday · 21 Oct 2014 at 05:01

Yep, i3 performance, no thanks

elrasho · 21 Oct 2014 at 10:29

This hasn't deterred me from getting an i7 4790K now. I reckon hat will last me 5 years as long as I have a decent GPU with it.

Martini1991 · 21 Oct 2014 at 10:51

WingZero30 said:
http://wccftech.com/intel-14nm-skylakes-engineering-samples-spotted/

Seems kinda low clock speed for a future next gen processor.

Aren't they just ES samples? Also, it's from like the worst site ever.

Also, why is it we keep getting this thread of "Intel says X or Y" They very rarely have substance.

We're very unlikely to get a desktop Broadwell till next year, all this talk of ramping up manufacturing is fairly null till it's here. We'd be very lucky to see anything close to a higher end mainstream Skylake part in 2015. It'll likely be 2016.

Orangey · 21 Oct 2014 at 14:15

That's Skylake-S.

WCCF confirmed for absolute incompetent hacks.

Disco_P · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:23

I like the name skylake, but won't upgrade from similarly well named sandy bridge unless I need to. Which I probably won't.

Though a hexacore i5 would sway me as I do enjoy hexagons.

Dicehunter · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:24

Disco_P said:
I like the name skylake, but won't upgrade from similarly well named sandy bridge unless I need to. Which I probably won't.

Though a hexacore i5 would sway me as I do enjoy hexagons.

Highly doubt we'll see hex core i5's any time soon

Martini1991 · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:24

Ha, yeah, I imagine the first mainstream hexcore from Intel to be a 6C/6T.
Allows them to charge us extra for the 12T's.

Martini1991 · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:25

Dicehunter said:
Highly doubt we'll see hex core i5's any time soon

I'd put money on it being Skylake or the one after.

Dave2150 · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:29

Most likely these rumours are all fake - though it is possible for Skylake's new architecture to be so efficient that those lower clock speeds are fine.

Remember the huge performance increase we had from high clocked P4's to the low clocked core2 series?

Martini1991 · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:30

Dave2150 said:
Most likely these rumours are all fake - though it is possible for Skylake's new architecture to be so efficient that those lower clock speeds are fine.

Remember the huge performance increase we had from high clocked P4's to the low clocked core2 series?

Except it's the worst site in the world, and ES samples.
And apparently they're low power samples, so the clock speeds could very well be accurate, but completely irrelevant as far as panicking goes.

Dave2150 · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:52

Martini1991 said:
Except it's the worst site in the world, and ES samples.
And apparently they're low power samples, so the clock speeds could very well be accurate, but completely irrelevant as far as panicking goes.

Guess you missed the top sentence of my post?

"Most likely these rumours are all fake"

~Mike~ · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:54

My hopes for Skylake being a worthy upgrade from my sandy are diminishing.