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Broadwell-E Core i7-6950X Flagship Processor To Rock 10 Cores

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P.B said:
Won't this still limit its over locking and be pointless towards games ?
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If all someone does is game than an i5 Skylake is good enough tbh.

X99 is enthusiast level, for benchers and those likely doing more than just gaming. These chips are great for workstation stuff, awesome for video encoding etc.
 
P.B said:
Won't this still limit its over locking and be pointless towards games ?
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Well I don't suppose anyone would use the flagship for gaming, I'd certainly imagine its aimed at content creation and those of us who like to do compute intensive tasks for BOINC Projects etc... Team 10 (OcUK) recently finished 2nd in the DENIS Challenge and I'd certainly consider changing out my 5930k for this.
 
Very interesting if this is true. This definitely means Skylake-E won't be released until at least some time in 2017 because it seems by the
Broadwell-E core increase and lineup they want Broadwell-E to last quite a while as their top flagship enthusiast processors for the desktop.

If this is what their Broadwell-E is going to be like, I wonder how many cores their Skylake-E will have on release.
 
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P.B said:
Won't this still limit its over locking and be pointless towards games ?
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Games are becoming ever more optimized towards higher cores/threads. Look at benchmarks where the GPU is taken out of the equation(usually low res tests) and you'll see CPU's like 5820k and 5960X outperform their mainstream brethren in most instances. So they are definitely an improvement there, even with slightly lower clock speeds.

The problem is you are simply more likely to run into a GPU bottleneck with modern games, especially as we push into higher and higher resolutions. So it really doesn't matter that your CPU outperforms the competition because the results wont show.
 
Cosimo said:
The 5960 was £760 at launch so this will be around that price.

Will be able to just drop it into the Rampage V Extreme with a bios update.
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Yeah right..... because Skylake is the same price as previous generations.

Oh wait, 4790K was £270, 6700K is £390.
 
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