What kind of CPU is a Skylake-S?

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I want to buy a MSI Cubi2 to turn into a dedicated emulation machine, but it lists its CPU as a Skylake-S? I cannot find any information on it. Is it better than the CPU on the MSI cubi1 the Intel Pentium 3805U??
 
Skylake "S" defines all of the Skylake chips that fit into an LGA 1151 socket. Though I think those Cubi boards only support the lower power T model chips. MSI putting the S on there without then further defining it is just stupid. For example "i3 6300T".

Think of the S as the form factor of the chips and then the T as a set of models with specific power requirements.
 
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Ocellaris said:
Skylake "S" defines all of the chips that fit into an LGA 1151 socket. Though I think those Cubi boards only support the lower power T model chips. MSI putting the S on there without then further defining it is just stupid. For example "i3 6300T".
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so the cubi2 comes with a i3 6300t?
 
Ladic said:
so the cubi2 comes with a i3 6300t?
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No idea what it comes with, they sell multiple Cubi 2 products and I don't think they all come with CPUs. Post a link to what you are looking at buying.
 
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Skylake-S is in short all desktop chips.
Skylake-Y is tablet/ultra mobile.
Skylake-U is regular laptop chips. (They can be used in a NUC as well for example.)
Skylake-H is high performance mobile chips.

However all these are Intel internal codename type only. Its not used as a customer product reference.
 
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