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Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

Mei said:
has there been much listed about the speed of m.2 on these new motherboards?

i see some have 2x m.2 slots but i would like to know the speed
are they still going to be very limited on lanes?
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They should be full speed m.2 slots well at least one as the skybridge cpus come with 20 lanes. So 16x for a single GPU or 8x 8x for dual GPU setup which leaves you with 4 lanes for a m.2 unless you use both m2. slots then they may run at 2x each which will make them run at slower speeds. Not sure why there are two slots on the motherboards as id rather get a bigger single m2 SSD than two smaller ones.
 
Sooo then... I7 or I5... what to get...... Will purchase of an I7 help once DX12 hits the gaming scene? or is that too far off and likely that another upgrade will happen ??
 
Think I will build a new Skylake system in Sept when I'm off work for a couple of weeks. But a little disappointed Skylake isn't kicking off with 6 cores.
 
r7slayer said:
They should be full speed m.2 slots well at least one as the skybridge cpus come with 20 lanes. So 16x for a single GPU or 8x 8x for dual GPU setup which leaves you with 4 lanes for a m.2 unless you use both m2. slots then they may run at 2x each which will make them run at slower speeds. Not sure why there are two slots on the motherboards as id rather get a bigger single m2 SSD than two smaller ones.
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so it has 4 more lanes than z97?
yeh sli and 1 m.2 at full speed isnt so bad

aslong as it does use gen3 and not gen2 like z97 >.<
 
r7slayer said:
They should be full speed m.2 slots well at least one as the skybridge cpus come with 20 lanes. So 16x for a single GPU or 8x 8x for dual GPU setup which leaves you with 4 lanes for a m.2 unless you use both m2. slots then they may run at 2x each which will make them run at slower speeds. Not sure why there are two slots on the motherboards as id rather get a bigger single m2 SSD than two smaller ones.
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Skylake has 36 PCI-E V3 lanes. Only 16 from the CPU, for GPU's/other PCI-E cards, and then another 20 from the chipset, for M.2/Sata express and other things etc.
 
Is there any downside to Skylake's implementation in comparison to 28/40 coming from the CPU on Haswell-E?
 
i hear/read somewhere that some latency is caused by AHCI anyway and one of the benefit of NVMe

AHCI not being designed for ssd or whatever
 
I'd be grateful if you'd let me know - Mulling over an entire rebuild and I am not too sure which road to go down.
 
Dave2150 said:
Skylake has 36 PCI-E V3 lanes. Only 16 from the CPU, for GPU's/other PCI-E cards, and then another 20 from the chipset, for M.2/Sata express and other things etc.
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ahh must have misread it then, could have sworn i saw 20 lanes on a cpu spec sheet. Well that's even better to know!
 
Rowlii said:
I'd be grateful if you'd let me know - Mulling over an entire rebuild and I am not too sure which road to go down.
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well pretty sure its going to be faster than sata3 as that goes thru the chipset anyway
and then u got the 6gb/s limit ontop that

you not going to notice it gaming or opening browser tabs :)
its for ppl doing crazy heavy stuff

i prefer the m.2 size more than taking up a pci-e slot tho or them 2.5inch from intel
 
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