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you only have a choice between 2 CPU's in the skylake range?
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What he said.
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Those chips aren't "Enthusiast"; enthusiast chips should have less space on the chip taken up with IGPU's. Grrrrr.....
Another boring 'During the war' comment......................
Yes there used to be a range of unlocked CPU's and you paid your money according to your wallet. Then you oc'ed the **** out of it to gain max performance and aim to beat the most expensive CPU.
Now you have a choice of one in a range and a fairly predictable overclock, sanctioned by Intel.
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You pay one price, no choice.
Yes there used to be a range of unlocked CPU's and you paid your money according to your wallet. Then you oc'ed the **** out of it to gain max performance and aim to beat the most expensive CPU.
Now you have a choice of one in a range and a fairly predictable overclock, sanctioned by Intel.
.You pay one price, no choice.
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Another boring 'During the war' comment......................
Yes there used to be a range of unlocked CPU's and you paid your money according to your wallet. Then you oc'ed the **** out of it to gain max performance and aim to beat the most expensive CPU.
Now you have a choice of one in a range and a fairly predictable overclock, sanctioned by Intel.
You pay one price, no choice.
Mine?
Not at all, the enthusiast range such as the Haswell-E (Socket 2011-3) chips meet this specification (to an extent) and the Skylake-E range is due out next year.
I was merely pointing out that these first chips are not "Enthusiast" grade chips, they are high end desktop chips as the main upgrade from Haswell to Skylake (other than the drop to 14nm silicon) is the upgrade of the iPGU.
I was not quoting anyone. Just making the point that a choice of one CPU per range with a predictable overclock based on multipliers is not an enthusiasts dream.
I agree they are not Enthusiast chips, high end maybe. The 6700k is a high end chip like the 4770k and 4790k was. Enthusiast chips maybe something along the lines of the 6960x, 6930k and 6820k etc (like the current X99) which will be of more cores than the standard 4. These may be a while end of year at earliest most likely into next year.
I'm enthusiastic about having 4 screens and my GPU only handles 3, so I'm pretty happy with it
(Admittedly only one screen is for games, so I could have a £25 add-in board to drive the others.)They're the top end CPUs of Intel's lower end socket. It's a shame that the high end socket seems to lag behind around a year though.
Overclocking used to be Blackhat, ripping off the CPU providers by using their cheaper processors, such a pity it has now gone Whitehat and mainstream with Intel reaping the benefits rather than the overclocker...........
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Another boring 'During the war' comment......................
Yes there used to be a range of unlocked CPU's and you paid your money according to your wallet. Then you oc'ed the **** out of it to gain max performance and aim to beat the most expensive CPU.
Now you have a choice of one in a range and a fairly predictable overclock, sanctioned by Intel.
You pay one price, no choice.
