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Official OcUK Skylake-X & Kabylake-X Review thread

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Skylake X

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/107017-intel-core-i9-7900x-14nm-skylake-x/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11550...ew-core-i9-7900x-i7-7820x-and-i7-7800x-tested
https://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2017/06/16/intel-core-i9-7900x-and-x299-chipset-revie/
https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Intel-Core-i9-7900X-10-core-Skylake-X-Processor-Review
https://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/intel_core_i7_7820x_skylake_x_review/1
https://techreport.com/review/32111/intel-core-i9-7900x-cpu-reviewed-part-one
https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/intel-core-i9-7900x-processor-review,1.html
http://www.4gamer.net/games/382/G038222/20170619074/
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Core-...ts/Skylake-X-Basin-Falls-Performance-1230913/
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/8225/intel-core-i9-7900x-series-skylake-cpu-review/index.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-7900x-skylake-x,5092.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3201187/computers/intel-core-i9-review.html


Kabylake X

https://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/intel_kabylake_x_core_i7_7740x_review_better_than_7700k.html
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru.../75590-intel-kaby-lake-x-i7-7740x-review.html

Skylake X and Kabylake X

https://nl.hardware.info/reviews/74...&utm_medium=rssfeed&utm_campaign=hardwareinfo
https://hothardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-7900x-and-core-i7-7740x-cpu-review

Please add any new reviews to this thread please!!
 
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The price of the i7-7800X actually looks decent compared to the R7 1700 on paper. It should nearly make up for the lack of two extra cores with faster cores (when overclocked) in multithreaded applications and obviously be ahead in single-threaded performance. However, it depends on the motherboard pricing. B350 and even X370 motherboards can be had for great prices right now.

The i7-7820X...not so much. Basically take an R7 1700, up the maximum clock speed by maybe 1 GHz, whack up the TDP hugely, and then double the price. No thanks.

What is really interesting about this to me is that the i7-7740K is the same price as the i7-7700K. Maybe this means Coffee Lake (i7-8700K presumably) will end up being $390 like the i7-7800X is. On a cheaper platform and with an IGP, that could be really nice.
 
zornyan said:
not sure what he could know exactly, maybe he's a bit ****** he didn't get sent a review sample so had to ask around for it, the end of his conclusion where he mentions it makes it come across that way.
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Yeah maybe. Or maybe Intel is skipping coffeelake because they have a kabylake X chips already on x299? I would hope that's not the case.
 
After reading all these so far that post game comparisons, it seems that the new cache structure and/or mesh are effecting performance in some games. Bit of a wash over BW-E because of this, even with higher clocks.

Which sucks because my upgrade path for my main pc is pretty much 7900x+ or Threadripper. I would reluctantly go with coffeelake for my main rig if it had 40/44 pci lanes but that won't happen.
 
Simon Belmont said:
I think with gamers disappointed with x299 wouldn't it be smart for Intel to give some info on CL?
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they are in a bit of a poor position as they would like 6 months between x299 and coffee lake to stop people going for the cheaper AND IFFFF they do a 8c16t coffee lake will lose some possible proffesionals as it would have to undercut the x299 platform on price while still being a jump in performance which would probably push it past the x299 8/16, depends how far intel want to push coffee lake and how much they value x299 sales all the while trying not to lose market share to amd.
 
I had a ook here and there and...
Those CPU's without De Liding are ******* CRAP !!!
 
Overall x299 doesn't seem that compelling. Sure, the CPUs themselves are cheaper than Broadwell-E but that's negated by the fact that RAM prices have gone through the roof and thanks to the awful thermal paste Intel have used you're also going to have to dump a load of money on a liquid cooling setup you might not have needed otherwise. That's not to mention the complete waste of space that is KabyLake-X which is simply going to make adopting the platform confusing for many users.

It does offer better performance than the competition but Ryzen isn't very far off in terms of performance and is significantly cheaper. If you're gaming you're just burning money by needlessly buying x299 instead of a 7700k / 1700. If you need the cores for video editing or some other highly scalable workload Ryzen offers far better value for money. Further if Threadripper can stay near 4Ghz thanks to being soldered and being more energy efficient while the big x299 chips have to downclock to stay cool it may end up offering better performance than x299. I really don't feel like x299 is a good option for anybody right now.
 
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Like any ****** cooler will do... Heat barely gets transferred from Die to IHS
 
I think the 7820k looks a pretty good choice tbh. If you spent £500 on a 1800X then and extra £100 is not bad for the extra performance especially in single threaded. Alright the power consumption isn't great, neither the temps but you an certainly tame them without too much trouble. Obviously boards will cost quite a bit too but hey ho if your looking at that segment you should expect that.

Not sure about the other chips though. KL-x is just laughable and the 7900x and upwards should be made redundant to most by threadripper.
 
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