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I wonder just how much more it will give, given that that mobo costs almost as much as a skylake mobo and chip bundle. For gaming tasks I wonder if it'll be remotely worth the premium.
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Intel’s Broadwell-E Flagship Core i7-6950X Processor Confirmed – 10 Core Madness For X99 Enthusiast
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I wonder just how much more it will give, given that that mobo costs almost as much as a skylake mobo and chip bundle. For gaming tasks I wonder if it'll be remotely worth the premium.
Nope, Skylake will most likely be the same speed or even faster in some games, for significantly less money.
Remember the 6700k's are only £280 these days.
Isn't Kaby Lake meant to be out in a couple of months too? Probably another 3-5% IPC to add.
Not to mention that Cannonlake will be using the same socket, although I wouldn't be shocked at all if Intel fix it so that Z170 boards don't support it, just like Broadwell only worked on Z97 and not Z87.
Oh yeah I hadn't thought of that because now it's 3 chips per node, this must also mean 3 chips per socket.
Yeah very likely though Cannonlake will be only for the new '200' series mobos coming, and not Z170 etc.
The Cannonlake i7 better be 6-core...
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Other than the new x99 chips, what else is expected form Intel this year?
Will we get an update on the 6700k?
Will we get an update on the 6700k?
VideoCardz seem to have "accidentally" broken it.
http://videocardz.com/60515/dont-click
https://archive.is/B9aUl
Doesn't seem to be anything we didn't already know though. Interesting that Intel are making no claims about single-threaded performance though, just 35% better multi-threaded performance comparing the 6950X vs the 5960X. Guess it won't be much of an upgrade (if any) for Haswell-E owners beyond the two extra cores.
Further down your link they state 15% single threaded performance 6950x vs 5960x increase.
In the context of turbo boost though, and where the 15% figure comes from isn't specified (since multi-core performance is also mentioned). It certainly won't be 15% faster in single-threaded workloads though. Even Skylake isn't a 15% IPC bump over Haswell.
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I seem to remember this week being mentioned - available to purchase I mean, so could be tomorrow, or a little later, but soon 
I would imagine it will be soldered. Can't see them taking a step back on the enthusiast line, more so with the amount of power / heat these things can pump out Besides if the OC is somewhat limited by poor Tim, less incentive for people to upgrade.
