Any rumours on when Skylake-E is going to come out?

[Cromulent]

I've been waiting for Skylake-E to come out for ages now as that is when I am going to upgrade my main system. I'm waiting because Skylake-E will feature a new chipset and therefore will have newer motherboard features than the current line up of Broadwell-E which I think is a bit pointless to upgrade to.

I currently have a Sandybridge-E system (i7 3930k at 4.4Ghz) and while it is an absolute beast of a system I am starting to feel that it is time to upgrade. Plus when I upgrade to a new system I'll be able to run Linux on my old system which will help me out with a few things such as website management.

So does anyone know of any rumours about when Skylake-E is going to be released? I'm really looking forward to it and I need to make sure my finances are sorted in advance of the release so I can upgrade as soon as it makes it to market.

 

[Combat Fighter]

You have a long wait ahead.

 

[WingZero30]

Skylake E is now called Skylake X. It will be on a new chipset X299 and is expected to be released in 2nd half of 2017 going by all the current info on the net.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

Unless going for more than 6 cores it will be a bit pointless going for Skylake-x what with mainstream Coffee Lake not that far off.

 

[Cromulent]

Thanks for the info guys. Hmm Q2 of 2017 is a bit annoying. I was hoping it would be sooner than that. Interesting that they have renamed it though. I didn't know that.

Unless going for more than 6 cores it will be a bit pointless going for Skylake-x what with mainstream Coffee Lake not that far off.

I'll hopefully be going for a 10 core / 20 thread CPU to help with video editing and other CPU intensive operations. Gaming is quite a small part of what I do on a computer these days.

 

[Radox-0]

Unless going for more than 6 cores it will be a bit pointless going for Skylake-x what with mainstream Coffee Lake not that far off.

Unless I am mistaken, is coffee lake not slated for lower powered devices. Roadmap images leaked, I am seeing show it as two classes of CPU's. One 15w-28w U class range and the other 35w-45w H class range. So while mainstream, that would only cover netbook and laptop type devices, not your desktop 6700k / 7700k type CPU's. May have changed since I last saw the leaks though.