AdamK47
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Do you have one pre-ordered?:thumbsup:
Nah, Micro Center usually has then for sale on the date of release at good prices.
Do you have one pre-ordered?:thumbsup:
My thread lives!
March 2016 release, aka Q1 2016.
I've been waiting forever to make my new build and I've pushed it from Ivy-E, to HW-E and I was set to go with BD-E and now am rewarded with a pleasant surprise. Previous documentation had the same old 6/6/8 setup. I'm confident the delay allowed this.
Now it's making me wonder if I should wait till sky-e, lol..
Speaking of which, what are the odds that Intel is genuinely concerned about Zen being an 8-core inexpensive monster, and that they might actually lower their prices on BDW-E to compete? (In an attempt to drive AMD out of business.)
Intel 10-core for same price as AMD 8-core Zen? That would indeed be interesting. I'm not sure who would buy Zen at that point, except for AMD die-hards.
why not have 2 families? why use a 1 size fits all solution? intel got their xeons, why can't amd have different cpus for different markets?Probably the eight core Zen will be much cheaper than the ten core Intel.
With that mentioned, what interests me most is 6C/12T Intel vs. 6C/12T Zen.
P.S. Will be interesting to see how AMD sized the Zen core. If Zen is big (high IPC/high frequency) that will help AMD for enthusiast desktop, but then I would think performance per watt on the 32C Zen Servers (and possibly mobile) would be less than ideal. If AMD sizes Zen smaller then peformance on the 32C Server should be better, but it will have a harder time competing on enthusiast desktop vs. New Intel processors and maybe even old ones (eg, E5 2670 octocore is now $179.00 shipped on the surplus market).
why not have 2 families? why use a 1 size fits all solution? intel got their xeons, why can't amd have different cpus for different markets?
True. What's nice is the ability to upgrade the BIOS and still use the X99 mb. My 5960x at 4.4Ghz is rock solid. Same mb as you. GREAT product.Nah, Micro Center usually has then for sale on the date of release at good prices.
Nah, Micro Center usually has then for sale on the date of release at good prices.
600$ for a cpu that lasts 5+ years isn't a bad deal at all.
when are these guys exactly coming out?
im itching for a upgrade, and a 6950X is calling for me.
Q1 technically means up til march.... does that mean march?
Why couldn't it be xmas.... why is intel not getting with the season of buying and releasing these guys during shopping boom.
when are these guys exactly coming out?
im itching for a upgrade, and a 6950X is calling for me.
Q1 technically means up til march.... does that mean march?
Why couldn't it be xmas.... why is intel not getting with the season of buying and releasing these guys during shopping boom.
Late Q2 of 2016, at least according to this leak:when are these guys exactly coming out?
ugh...late q2? That chart makes me sad
This sucks. I would feel bad buying a new "enthusiast" CPU with a two-year old architecture no matter how many cores it has, but everyone will make you feel bad for buying the mainstream i7 actually of the latest architecture because it's a quad-core. Can't win no matter what.Be thankful we are getting 6/8/10 core split now. Let's face it, Intel didn't have to do it this generation. They could have easily bumped clocks 100-200mhz and sold us 6/6/8 for the exact same prices and waited until 2017 to add more cores. AMD will have nothing to compete with X99 products in almost all of 2016. Props to Intel for doing this. :thumbsup:
Still sucks though that the road-map basically confirms no SKL-E until 2017, which means there will be about a 1.5 year gap between the mainstream platform's new architecture and the subsequent HDET platform on the same architecture. If Kaby Lake is Q4 2016, chances are Cannon Lake is Q4 2017, Ice Lake is Q4 2018. If we assume similar spread of 1.5 years between mainstream and HDET, that would imply we might not even see Ice Lake-E is 1H of 2020. Damn. D:
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Mainstream hexa-core; why can't Intel give us that...