Intel’s Broadwell-E Flagship Core i7-6950X Processor Confirmed – 10 Core Madness For X99 Enthusiast

[Ayahuasca]

It's a waste of time if you're already on X99 unless you're going from say a 5820k to this flagship chip and you will fully utilise all the cores regularly.

Lets just hope these are good clockers otherwise many people already on Haswell-E will probably have faster chips.

 

[Petelock]

Tbh, I'm a bit miffed at 5820k for some things (photoshop & lightroom) and I don't see this update helping things due to the software's utilisation.

Whine aside though, I'm pretty happy with my 5820 chip and will hold onto it for a good few years yet.

 

[Silent_Scone]

There are some cool features coming with this lineup...

 

[Ayahuasca]

Like what?

 

[KillBoY_UK]

It's a waste of time if you're already on X99 unless you're going from say a 5820k to this flagship chip and you will fully utilise all the cores regularly.

Lets just hope these are good clockers otherwise many people already on Haswell-E will probably have faster chips.

My 5820k is a pretty poor and hot clockers 4.1ghz needs 1.25v and even with a Evo waterblock on 120.3 rad with just the CPU in the look im hitting the high 60's low 70 with realbench

 

[Ayahuasca]

That's just unlucky I guess, although the earlier chips seemed to be poor for overclocking. Your temps are fine, anything up to 80c for stressing is fine.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

That's just unlucky I guess, although the earlier chips seemed to be poor for overclocking. Your temps are fine, anything up to 80c for stressing is fine.

Thouse temps where with three SP120's at 2000RPM lol , i've seen peeps with AIO's getting lower temps, or so they claim.

I got the setup about a year ago

 

[tyler_jrb]

My 5820k is a pretty poor and hot clockers 4.1ghz needs 1.25v and even with a Evo waterblock on 120.3 rad with just the CPU in the look im hitting the high 60's low 70 with realbench

mine will do 4.7ghz 1.33v. Under 60c. Either you have it set up wrong or just a really poor clocker.

I for one won't be upgrading my 5930k for a good while. Plenty fast enough for me at the minute.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

mine will do 4.7ghz 1.33v. Under 60c. Either you have it set up wrong or just a really poor clocker.

I for one won't be upgrading my 5930k for a good while. Plenty fast enough for me at the minute.

I tend to lose out on the silicon lottery, although I did get a Opteron 165 back in the day that rocked @ 3ghz with the heatspreader still on.

If you have the time would you mind looking over my settings if I send you a trust/email to see if threes anything I missed or could do.

Even tried resenting the CPU to no avail at least on the temps front.

 

[tyler_jrb]

I tend to lose out on the silicon lottery, although I did get a Opteron 165 back in the day that rocked @ 3ghz with the heatspreader still on.

If you have the time would you mind looking over my settings if I send you a trust/email to see if threes anything I missed or could do.

Even tried resenting the CPU to no avail at least on the temps front.

Sure no problem

 

[Silent_Scone]

My 5820k is a pretty poor and hot clockers 4.1ghz needs 1.25v and even with a Evo waterblock on 120.3 rad with just the CPU in the look im hitting the high 60's low 70 with realbench

Increasing VCCIN can help negotiate vcore required

 

[ZXSpectrum]

I build systems on a daily basis with [email protected] 1.25v and a H100 with 2 x SP120 and rarely do I see temps above 80 Degrees, in Aida64 and Realbench, unless the system has 8x8Gb installed. Its a little strange that you have issues with a custom loop.. :|

 

[Cromulent]

So you're saying Broadwell-e won't be able to play games/ encode videos adequately in 5 years time? What exactly do you think the state of computing will be then? Not too different to today, that's for sure.

No. You clearly didn't read my post. I said Skylake-E will have more modern technology in its chipset extending its life span compared to X99. That will give it increased longevity. I'm sure the top of the range Broadwell-E chip will run fine for games / video / graphics for many years but X99 is pretty old by now. Best to wait for its successor.

 

[Silent_Scone]

No. You clearly didn't read my post. I said Skylake-E will have more modern technology in its chipset extending its life span compared to X99. That will give it increased longevity. I'm sure the top of the range Broadwell-E chip will run fine for games / video / graphics for many years but X99 is pretty old by now. Best to wait for its successor.

Enthusiast platforms have a longer life cycle than the mainstream.

 

[Combat Fighter]

Enthusiast platforms have a longer life cycle than the mainstream.

Indeed.

I had my X58 setup for about 6 years and it was still a very good system especially with the easy 6-core upgrade for £50-80.

I expect this X99 setup to last a long time too.

Money is best spent on graphics now.

 

[Caracus2k]

Don't be surprised if skylake-e never sees the light of day. We almost certainly won't be seeing a further enthusiasts cpu/ chipset release from Intel in 2016 and by 2017 Intel will be looking at launching 6 core+ 10nm 'cannonlake' cpu's..... Cant see many people thinking that a 14nm CPU with six or maybe eight plus cores will be worth the premium.....

People that are saying 'wait for skylake-e' should be cautioning their audience to expect a long potential delay.....

Other than 6 + cores the main thing that the enthusiast boards have bought to the party is more pci-e lanes. This advantage looks like its going to be chipped at away this year with kabylake and the new chipset they are releasing with it offering more total pci-e lanes than skylake/z170 does..
can't see cannonlake cpu's and the chipset Intel releases with them having less lanes then kabylake so it will interesting to see if Intel maintain the consumer/ enthusiast split and if so what they do to differentiate the 'enthusiast' line from 'consumer' cpu's

 

[sam77]

No. You clearly didn't read my post. I said Skylake-E will have more modern technology in its chipset extending its life span compared to X99. That will give it increased longevity. I'm sure the top of the range Broadwell-E chip will run fine for games / video / graphics for many years but X99 is pretty old by now. Best to wait for its successor.

Yes, I read your post. Please inform how the 'new magical features of Skylake-E' will have any significant real world performance gain over Broadwell-E.

 

[Caracus2k]

Yes, I read your post. Please inform how the 'new magical features of Skylake-E' will have any significant real world performance gain over Broadwell-E.

Speculatively (if we see) the next 'enthusiast' platform is likely to have.....

Native usb 3.1 (its not native to either z170 or x99) most boards will probably come with at least a couple.of usb type c connector's

Dmi 3.0 or better to connect chipset (pch) to cpu

Pcie-4 - the last hurrah for backward compatible pci-e slots doubling the bandwidth again...

Probably still using quad channel DDR4 but expect non overclocked max speed to reach 2666 mhz or higher

New pin /socket layout

So likely a steady progression from x99 not quite anything 'magical'

 

[seth1969]

I had my X58 setup for about 6 years and it was still a very good system especially with the easy 6-core upgrade for £50-80.

Still got the x58 set up, the other half got it and gave me an excuse to upgrade to x99.
In gaming i could not notice any difference between the x99 and x58 with the titan x and £60 6 core upgrade at 60 hz 1440p monitor.

How cpus have been going over the last 7 years i feel like the x99 will be good for the next 10 lol.

 

[sam77]

Speculatively (if we see) the next 'enthusiast' platform is likely to have.....

Native usb 3.1 (its not native to either z170 or x99) most boards will probably come with at least a couple.of usb type c connector's

Dmi 3.0 or better to connect chipset (pch) to cpu

Pcie-4 - the last hurrah for backward compatible pci-e slots doubling the bandwidth again...

Probably still using quad channel DDR4 but expect non overclocked max speed to reach 2666 mhz or higher

New pin /socket layout

So likely a steady progression from x99 not quite anything 'magical'

and how exactly will that make any significant real world difference like I said? A microsecond faster load time or bragging rights of having the latest bells and whistles?