Who is skylake aimed at?

smilertoo · 6 Aug 2015 at 18:36

Intel have bumped the price up £50 and removed the cooler, who exactly are they thinking will buy skylake when it's now in the same price bracket as a low end x99 system?

dannywaugh1 · 6 Aug 2015 at 20:41

Kind of agree with you. Surely should have been a little cheaper or even the same price as devils canyon.

ukxenon · 6 Aug 2015 at 20:57

Less for more

zola25 · 6 Aug 2015 at 21:01

In addition the iGPU is much weaker than Broadwell's, so it's not really a replacement for that either.

Greebo · 6 Aug 2015 at 21:02

Kerching!

Its all about the money,money baby!

setter · 6 Aug 2015 at 21:08

All it seems to have done is push more people towards X99. Seeing quite a few spec me threads popping up.

C64 · 6 Aug 2015 at 21:42

It's aimed at the type of people who have "gaming chairs".

And who like the plasticy looking garish design of the motherboards today with big symbols "gamer edition" "extreme" written all over it to go with their plasticy gamer cases.

gronf · 6 Aug 2015 at 22:06

Aerial fishermen?

colinmcr · 6 Aug 2015 at 22:23

Upgrade junkies, pricing is strange for sure.

jjgreenwood · 6 Aug 2015 at 22:36

It's going to be £260 for an i7 and £180 for an i5 once the excitement has died down. It will also be about £60 for a cheap motherboard and £50 for 8 gigs of ddr4. It's for the mainstream.

C64 · 6 Aug 2015 at 22:49

jjgreenwood said:
It's going to be £260 for an i7 and £180 for an i5 once the excitement has died down. It will also be about £60 for a cheap motherboard and £50 for 8 gigs of ddr4. It's for the mainstream.

it's already £50 for 8gb ddr4

C64 · 6 Aug 2015 at 22:50

jjgreenwood said:
It's going to be £260 for an i7 and £180 for an i5 once the excitement has died down. It will also be about £60 for a cheap motherboard and £50 for 8 gigs of ddr4. It's for the mainstream.

it's already £50 for 8gb ddr4, see how they tempt you in ?

kaku · 6 Aug 2015 at 23:21

OEMs that need bigger model numbers.

jjgreenwood · 7 Aug 2015 at 00:21

C64 said:
it's already £50 for 8gb ddr4, see how they tempt you in ?

In which case it will probably be £40 in a few weeks. Skylake will be a very high power system for not much money IMHO.

Stas823 · 7 Aug 2015 at 01:07

C64 said:
It's aimed at the type of people who have "gaming chairs".

And who like the plasticy looking garish design of the motherboards today with big symbols "gamer edition" "extreme" written all over it to go with their plasticy gamer cases.

Kind of like the "sniper" motherboards with gun shaped heatsinks

Razor Time · 7 Aug 2015 at 01:15

You can buy the 6700k for £264.

smilertoo · 7 Aug 2015 at 02:30

I thought the new iGPU was supposed to be 2x faster than before.

wazza300 · 7 Aug 2015 at 03:09

Bit bizzare tbh

All it brings is ddr4 and a die shrink,also an improved igpu,this was gonna be my next upgrade platform but now I will wait

Destination · 7 Aug 2015 at 03:21

What is skylake-e i read about, and when might it land?

The new gen mobos, what additional features do they bring with the chipset as standard?
Ddr4 seems to be one, but on limited amount of slots?
What else?

TheMorningStar · 7 Aug 2015 at 07:03

Price will drop slightly I imagine, pretty much just a die shrink but with better gfx and other tweaks isn't it? The platform has more PCIe lanes 16 on cpu for gfx and 20 on chipset? Nice for gaming and m.2 drives, satae etc. Had a look over them, DDR4 is a bit meh, but don't need expensive sticks for gaming, the MSI gaming 7, I think it is, nice mobo 2x m.2, think you can raid them also.

The upgrade seems to be the platform more than the chip, and the market would best suit anyone who hasn't upgraded in a few years. I may get one if I can't wait for Zen, expect price to fall somewhat over the following months.