Monday can't come soon enough, but think I'm going to shelve my plans for going X299/7820X and see what CFL-S is like. I have the money but think the IPC in CFL-S is going to be better and more beneficial in terms of current games.
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Intel to launch 6 core Coffee Lake-S CPUs & Z370 chipset 5 October 2017
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I guess it comes down to what they've changed between 14nm+ and ++ of kabylake to coffeelake?
if they've made some effeciency improvements and can get 5ghz on 6 cores easily enough, then it should be fairly equal to 6 core skylake, but fairly cheaper.
depends if they've managed to squeeze some more ipc out of the node/architecture?
would be nice to get some benchmarks soon though
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My current train of thought exactly; I want to have all the facts for both platforms and their SKUs in. Still wishing really hard for an 8C/16T Coffee Lake-S... I'm already scratching my head of what board to go with, regardless of platform; Strix or TUF Mark 1 or 2. -- I have time ha ha! Either way, I want to play Assassin's Creed: Origins on a new system, that's my just made-up timeline.
8 core coffeelake seems very unlikely at this point in time, the mainstream platform seems to be more targeted at 'just the right amount' of cores, and it's taken this long to go from 4 to 6.
TUF is looking very good at the moment, I'm more inclined to the strix as I don't like all the 'armor' on the TUF series myself, but the specs look nearly identical.
do the plastic covers actually provide any benefit other than some dust protrction? seems like they would trap heat more than anything
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8c/16t would be killer, but don't think it'll happen this gen at least. Still trying to decided myself whether to go x299 or z370? Which ever motherboard I go for it won't be Gigabyte or MSI. My last 2 boards have been gigabyte and haven't been that impressed with them tbh. MSI has too many board failures. Never had issues with Asus so I'll be looking at them this time.
Just keeping my fingers crossed the 6c/12t Coffelake S isn't disappointing? By how x299 is going I don't have a lot of faith in Intel this gen.
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There are always two TUF versions; one with and one without the thermal armor:
Z270 Mark 1:
Z270 Mark 2:
As to the Mark 1 armor functionality, I'm not sure. Reviews seem positive. However, I would like the question looked into in depth as well. For example, my house is dusty by nature (not by the lack of cleaning lol) so perhaps such armored board wouldn't be the smartest thing whereas a regular board is easy to clean.
The TUF series overclock as well as any ROG board so that's not a deciding factor. The plusses are sturdiness and not having "Gaming" written on it
Besides, you don't see too many so if you want to have something a little different...No I don't think we'll see an 8 core this lake series either. Ice Lake will most likely offer one - man is that too late!!
There are always two TUF versions; one with and one without the thermal armor:
Z270 Mark 1:
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Z270 Mark 2:
As to the Mark 1 armor functionality, I'm not sure. Reviews seem positive. However, I would like the question looked into in depth as well. For example, my house is dusty by nature (not by the lack of cleaning lol) so perhaps such armored board wouldn't be the smartest thing whereas a regular board is easy to clean.
The TUF series overclock as well as any ROG board so that's not a deciding factor. The plusses are sturdiness and not having "Gaming" written on it
No I don't think we'll see an 8 core this lake series either. Ice Lake will most likely offer one - man is that too late!!
the mk2 without the armor looks much smarter imo.
my house is fairly dusty too since we have several ferrets running around, but I can't say u get a build-up of dust worth mentioning inside any of my builds. the worst was probably the air 540 case because it had basicslly no dust filtration, but a can of compressed air sorted that in 5 minutes after 3 or so months?
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I think the problem would getting any accumulated dust out from under the armor. But yeah, the dust inside my system is barely existent too.
makes sense how it could get trapped I guess.
wonder what time preorders go up?
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CFL pre-orders?
no skylake x, I know it's tomorrow but in curious as sometimes that's first thing other times it's not till night.
nda lifts at the same time as preorders go live iirc
never normally pre order, but I need to get an 8 core system again to do some video editing that in trying to catch up on, I can't really afford to wait the potential weeks/month or so if the motherboard/cpu combo I want goes out of stock.
did you pre order no man's sky? no THAT was a disappointment
If it's that urgent, you could trade the 20% performance boost you'd get from (a fully overclocked) Skylake-X and instead get a Ryzen right now. You'd be finished with that editing much faster than if you wait for Skylake-X to be released and save a load of cash to boot!
I think he already owns a 6900kIf it's that urgent, you could trade the 20% performance boost you'd get from (a fully overclocked) Skylake-X and instead get a Ryzen right now. You'd be finished with that editing much faster than if you wait for Skylake-X to be released and save a load of cash to boot!
Ah so he just needs that 5% performance boost or he'll be behind on his work, I get it.