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Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

colinmcr said:
8 Threads because he did it with all cores and HT enabled, it does say that in the article. Only one DDR4 module. (However I guess it could still be fake I have no way of knowing)
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I think the more obvious point was the 8 is not centred in the box and the font is different - hence doctored
 
Armageus said:
I think the more obvious point was the 8 is not centred in the box and the font is different - hence doctored
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Could be mate, I suppose we should just get the salt out and wait for official ones to start appearing. Its there worst thing about cpu/gpu pre-release lots of misleading info and second guesses.

I'm firmly on the fence still as to what to replace my i5-2500K with in my everyday rig and Z68 board.
 
Armageus said:
I think the more obvious point was the 8 is not centred in the box and the font is different - hence doctored
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That's what I meant alright. Also the 6.5 is a tad unbelievable imo. Can't possibly understand what joy this brings the maker (from the basement of his mommy's house no doubt).

So I'm going to wait for official benchmarks too, while I go yes and no a couple more times.
 
Leaked Intel Slides!

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So it seems Intel is claiming a 10-20% IPC improvement from Broadwell - hopefully this will be reflected in the official review :D

Note that the slides are pertaining to mobile Skylake, though as the desktop quad's are in fact mobile CPU's also, it should carry over to our -K CPU's.

Source, with more slides: http://www.fanlesstech.com/2015/07/exclusive-skylake-boost.html
 
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Dave2150 said:
HBM/eDRAM and the like will mean X99 won't last as long as X58 did.
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You could be right about that.
Also there is no alpine ridge chip on X99 motherboards so there is no native USB3.1 and thunderbolt.
Also single M.2 slots or the SFP connectors built in are also limiting.

Biggest speed increases might come from greater use of the iGPU like AMD was trying to push with their APU's and HSA.
 
I wonder if this will be worth over haswell i5 4690k....I would have to buy new rams/cpu/mobo....for the i7 and 16gb of ram I am looking for £500 at least....
 
Smrtka said:
I wonder if this will be worth over haswell i5 4690k....I would have to buy new rams/cpu/mobo....for the i7 and 16gb of ram I am looking for £500 at least....
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Same as you and TBH I really don't think it's worth it.

If I were to upgrade I think going to a 4790K and doubling up to 16GB of RAM, then selling your 4690K for a £100 or so would be the most cost effective route and would easily last until 10nm Cannonlake arrives in 2017.

If I were to go to the trouble of replacing everything, I'd go the whole hog and move up to X99 and 6 cores.
 
Cooper said:
Same as you and TBH I really don't think it's worth it.

If I were to upgrade I think going to a 4790K and doubling up to 16GB of RAM, then selling your 4690K for a £100 or so would be the most cost effective route and would easily last until 10nm Cannonlake arrives in 2017.

If I were to go to the trouble of replacing everything, I'd go the whole hog and move up to X99 and 6 cores.
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I'm on 16 gb ram already :P I think you are right I should get the i7 :)
Thanks
 
Vinno said:
Those boards look very nice. Just hope they don't cost too much.
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The Extreme will surely have a high premium - since it's the first board with a native U.2 connector, plus being EATX with more connectivity options.

The Hero will most likely be the sweet spot, IMO.
 
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