Skylake-X (Core i9) - Lineup, Specifications and Reviews!

Nightfire said:
This new 9990xe seems like a boss:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.to...9990xe-review-specifications-price,38584.html

The 14 core parts always seemed like one of the best in the lineup as they still got the full 165 tdp. This CPU takes it to an 11 with a 255 tdp.

No word yet on price. $1500 would be my guess as it is basically a W-3175 cut in half.
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Wow if they could have managed those speeds on the 10-12 core variants sold to consumers, people may have actually refreshed their x299.
 
Nightfire said:
This new 9990xe seems like a boss:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.to...9990xe-review-specifications-price,38584.html

The 14 core parts always seemed like one of the best in the lineup as they still got the full 165 tdp. This CPU takes it to an 11 with a 255 tdp.

No word yet on price. $1500 would be my guess as it is basically a W-3175 cut in half.
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Not sure what you mean by the price. That is an auction part exclusive to OEMs. How do you expect it to cost $1500 plus it’s never coming to retail. It’s a top binned part that even OEMs have to bid for. Available in the minuscule quantities from what was initially reported.
 
Picked up a 9800x from silicon lottery and a x299 Aorus Gaming 7 Pro board. Sliding 2 NVMe intel 760p SSDs(Yay VROC) in it. Waiting on my TridentZ to arrive this week.
 
Is there any real advantage to be had upgrading my 7820x at this point?

Computer is mainly used for gaming so it probably doesn't make sense. Where is the fun in that though? :p
 
New round of rumors mention that Cascade Lake may be coming to LGA2066 after all:

https://www.techpowerup.com/253519/intel-to-refresh-its-lga2066-hedt-platform-this-summer

Presumably, these would finally be 14nm++ parts, unlike the 9000 series SKL(x) parts, which were just soldered 7000 series SKL(x) parts... which were actually 6th gen, but the did have KBL(x) that gen so this is forgivable.

So how would a full blown 14++ stack up against a 14nm part? The new xeon part might be the best clue when comparing to a xeon 5th gen, which was original 14 nm:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...-2144g-processor-8m-cache-up-to-4-50-ghz.html

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...n-processor-e3-1245-v5-8m-cache-3-50-ghz.html

LGA2066 skylake parts seem to clock better than the desktop versions. Perhaps the same will be for the CFL/CCL(x) parts.
 
Basin falls is the current X299 PCH but this roadmap i found indicates that cascade lake x will be on a Glacier falls X299 PCH. So at this point i have serious doubts that Intel will throw us a hail mary and will require a different motherboard sadly. Maybe we will know more at computex.

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Here is another image that aligns with this.
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Fake (analysis from Dayman56).

  • Skylake SP is listed as 4 Channel - Despite being 6 Channels

  • Cascade Lake Refresh has LWS (Lewisburg) PCH listed instead of C620 PCH like Skylake and Cascade Lake SP does even though they are the same thing. Changing terminology on the same slide is weird

  • Intel's own public Roadmap from August 2018 that is posted on their Investor Relations website does not acknowledge the existence of "Cascade Lake Refresh" but instead Cooper Lake

  • Xeon is listed on a "Desktop Client CPU Planning Roadmap" despite not being a desktop platfrom

  • The slide number is "152 of 14", that makes zero sense.

  • Mehlow Xeon E 8 Core is listed to launch in Q1 2019, it is now Q2 2019 and it still has not launched

  • X Series TDPs are wrong, it goes upto 165w, not 150w.

  • According to this roadmap Cascade Lake launched in Q1 2019, despite it being launched in April of 2019 which is Q2 2019.

  • The Dell logo is half cut off.
 
The very roadmap you used as a source says Cascade lake was to launch in Q4 of 2018 and that didnt happen either. Also nothing in that deck covers HEDT which is all we are looking at.
 
picked up a VROC dongle for 20 bucks from EVGA. Gonna see if this was my issue with raid0 m.2 even though its supposed to work natively.
 
der8auer just released a video from computex in the Gigabyte AORUS booth showing a board with the model X299G-DESIGNARE-10G but having x499 series on the VRM heatsink and stating this is a x299 refresh for the skylake x refresh coming in November.

Even the tech specs card displayed in front of the board says X299G. So i think there is hope that the skylake x refresh chips coming later this year have a good chance of working on existing x299 platforms. I think the x499 is just what they are calling the refresh.




Edit: Nevermind
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So i wasnt 100% happy with the 9800x. Going into it i wanted a CPU that had 44 lanes. At the time the 9800x was the cheaper 8 core option and i thought its Soldered so it will transfer heat better. Well turns out it seems the soldered chips dont. Having a consistent core delta of nearly 30 degrees F and the fact that there was nothing to do to keep it cool outside of lapping the IHS which i didnt want to do. With a H110i cooler all i could squeeze out of the chip was 4.6GHz while staying safe but that would still net me temps in the 196-199F range under load (TJmax is 203F). Under realistic load for playing games and stuff i could sneak 4.7 in it and it would be fine since not much really loaded it down all the way. I thought the problem was the cooler not being efficient enough and im sure some of it is but i think alot of it is the IHS. I sold the 9800x with a spare x299 board i had and put 60 bucks on top and picked up a 7900x off ebay. I really wanted a 10 core anyway, also has 44 lanes and i can delid the cpu. Ill be loosing a little bit of cache but honestly i doubt that will even be noticeable.

Ill run the chip for a week as is then ill delid it and use liquid metal along with a full copper IHS and see how it does.
 
So 7900x is in. Running the same 4.6GHz on this as i did the 9800x. it hasnt been delidded or anything and its running 20F cooler then the 9800x. I saw on bearded hardwares live stream where he stated that the soldered 9000 series skylake x chips IHS are wavy due to the soldering process with the die being so large it warps them. Its pretty much required to lap them in order to get manageable temps. I do think im going to wait for the direct die mount and just direct die cool the 7900x and rock it out.
 
I was eager to jump to the 9800x but due to availability issues I wasn't able to purchase one, "settled" for a 7820x but after reading many users with the same issues you had, I'm glad I went with the 7820X. Haven't felt the need to delid because I'm running 4.7 on just under 1.2v and temps have been great.
 
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