LGA 2066 refresh soon?

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Nirad9er

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Is there a refresh coming soon for LGA 2066?

Seems like the mainstream is getting all the love with the 6 core 8700k and now the 8 core 9700k.

Not that I'm hurting with my 7820x but it would be nice to have something new to play with however I always have the option of a 7900x but I'm mainly a gamer so not sure if more cores or wait for a higher frequency 8-core 8 series chip for my socket.
 
There is a refresh comming in October according to current leaks with iirc up to 22 cores.
 
Nirad9er said:
Is there a refresh coming soon for LGA 2066?

Seems like the mainstream is getting all the love with the 6 core 8700k and now the 8 core 9700k.

Not that I'm hurting with my 7820x but it would be nice to have something new to play with however I always have the option of a 7900x but I'm mainly a gamer so not sure if more cores or wait for a higher frequency 8-core 8 series chip for my socket.
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Interested on this refresh as well, because depending on a lot of factors i may end up upgrading or delidding my current CPU.
 
I wonder if Intel will allow its 28 core beast to run on the quad-channel 2066 socket..
 
With mainstream going 8 core, the HEDT platform will shrink in popularity even more than it already has. Quad channel is good for nothing but a Sisoft benchmark. My Asrock Taichi XE and 7820X may end up in the buy and sell forum.
 
KazeoHin said:
I wonder if Intel will allow its 28 core beast to run on the quad-channel 2066 socket..
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SKL-X --> quad-channel
SKL-A --> sext-channel

Budwise said:
With mainstream going 8 core, the HEDT platform will shrink in popularity even more than it already has. Quad channel is good for nothing but a Sisoft benchmark. My Asrock Taichi XE and 7820X may end up in the buy and sell forum.
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quad-channel must be overkill for most applications on octo-core. It is a must for octodec-core.
 
I know mainstream is going 8 core but having the ability to a much higher core count would be better future proof right? I would imagine games would take advantage of the extra cores or less of a bottleneck.
 
Nirad9er said:
I know mainstream is going 8 core but having the ability to a much higher core count would be better future proof right? I would imagine games would take advantage of the extra cores or less of a bottleneck.
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In theory yeah.

In practice, I think you're going to end up like Westmere/Nehalem holdouts you still see around. By the time games are leveraging that many threads (and they don't really do that with the i7-980X yet), per-core speed will be so far behind that it doesn't help much.

It costs less to buy 3 mainstream mobo/CPUs than an HEDT + high core count upgrade, and you get less performance and fewer features (new USB, new storage interfaces, new PCIe etc) over that timespan. Unless you really hate upgrading, or do things other than gaming, or you get lucky next gen with a massively threaded console, it isn't worth it IMO.
 
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I jumped from a Q9550 8GB to a 7940X + 64GB RAM and it has been an amazing experience this far.

The fact that I can have 2-3 Browsers open (web development josb) with lots of windows + tabs, Adobe Bridge, ACDSEE, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Font Management Software, Outlook and whatever other I wish open and working at the same time + a VM or doing some ecnoding is really cool. Yet, I can fire up steam an play a game like Tomb Raider while leaving all these open. (Casual gamer btw)

Besides RAM I don't know how well a 6 Core 8700K would handle this (I guess it could) but I am not regretting the choice of X299 platform. No matter what I do it serves me really well. It's also nice when doing some rendering in Photoshop or After Effects and I guess better than an 8700K. This machince makes me money at a faster rate than the previous so my ROI is looking great.
 
Nirad9er said:
Is there a refresh coming soon for LGA 2066?

Seems like the mainstream is getting all the love with the 6 core 8700k and now the 8 core 9700k.

Not that I'm hurting with my 7820x but it would be nice to have something new to play with however I always have the option of a 7900x but I'm mainly a gamer so not sure if more cores or wait for a higher frequency 8-core 8 series chip for my socket.
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Your hurting with a 7820x?

What do you use your system for? My 7820x runs @ 4.7 ghz all 8 cores and does s 205 in Cinebench single core making just as fast as a coffee lake overclocked for gaming.

For productivity I agree that its underpowered now in todays huge core count AMD world.

I think that I am going to make the switch over to Threadripper 2 soon if Intel doesnt give us a 22 or 24 core with competitive pricing. If they release a 22 core for $2000 and AMD is selling a 32 core for $1500 ... F off Intel because our relationship is over. Intel better do this right.


AlexisRO said:
Interested on this refresh as well, because depending on a lot of factors i may end up upgrading or delidding my current CPU.
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If you havent delidded your chip that is the reason it feels slow. It was exactly what this chip needed from the factory performance wise was solder but a delid liq metal did the trick.

I can run all 8 cores @ 4.7ghz and my cache @ 3 GHZ with -5 avx 512 and -2 avx offsets and the chip never hits higher than 82c full wide open throttle. I do alot of video work so I am barraging my CPU all the time with loads.

I am extremely intrigued by what Intel is planning to do price wise with the Threadripper 2 competition and as I have said I hope they treat this with care or else im jumping ship back over to AMD.
 
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tangoseal said:
If you havent delidded your chip that is the reason it feels slow. It was exactly what this chip needed from the factory performance wise was solder but a delid liq metal did the trick.

I can run all 8 cores @ 4.7ghz and my cache @ 3 GHZ with -5 avx 512 and -2 avx offsets and the chip never hits higher than 82c full wide open throttle. I do alot of video work so I am barraging my CPU all the time with loads.

I am extremely intrigued by what Intel is planning to do price wise with the Threadripper 2 competition and as I have said I hope they treat this with care or else im jumping ship back over to AMD.
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My problem isn't speed wise as i'm at @ 4.5ghz (sure i'd love 5ghz daily out of it but let's not get carried away here) but temp and related to temps, fan noise. I've got about 16C between the coldest and the hottest core. So if the newer cpu's are as the leaks suggest soldered that would be a plus on my side. My next issues would be overclocking potential and price.
 
Whilst history would suggest that x299 will get a new gen cpu like x79 and x99 Its videocardz and intel, so i would take everything with a ton of salt until you actually see the reviews
 
I recently upgraded from an i7-4970k to a i9-7900x. I was able to pick one up for $600. I figure, had I upgraded to an i7-8700k I would have been out $350-400, and only had 6 cores, then I would be pissed because the new 9700k would be only 8 cores. I think the gamble paid off. I can hold onto my 7900x for at least the next 4 or 5 years.

If in fact the x299 comes out with something like a 22 core, well then I will be set in a couple years if I feel like upgradeing
 
Sloginfizz said:
I recently upgraded from an i7-4970k to a i9-7900x. I was able to pick one up for $600. I figure, had I upgraded to an i7-8700k I would have been out $350-400, and only had 6 cores, then I would be pissed because the new 9700k would be only 8 cores. I think the gamble paid off. I can hold onto my 7900x for at least the next 4 or 5 years.

If in fact the x299 comes out with something like a 22 core, well then I will be set in a couple years if I feel like upgradeing
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It makes sense to buy the best CPU you can afford IMO- I’m still using a 3930k at 4.6GHz and whenever I run benchmarks I still don’t see any reason to upgrade
 
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