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8th Gen Availability?

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wolveen

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Hey guys does anyone know where to check when the next batch of Intel 8th Gens will be released?

TIA
 
They come in stock all the time if that's your question and a lot of places seems to have regular stock now.

If you ask when more SKUs are coming, its in January.
 
Microcenter Atlanta storws had over 10 of ech i7 and 5 in stock last night. I got an I5 8600k for 299.
 
I got an 8600k from outlet PC Thursday for $269. They are out of stock again though. If you put up a part list on pcpartpicker.com and check it every day you will see when your parts go on sale. Though you will have to check to make sure they are actually in stock.
 
Im running my I5 at 5.0 x2 and 4.8 x4 and 4.7x6 ghz at 1.26volts. Thing runs way cooler than 8700k at same clocks. Im even ocing cache to 3ghz. I just got a 200 in Cbench single thread which is what I use to represent IPC.

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Im running my I5 at 5.0 x2 and 4.8 x4 and 4.7x6 ghz at 1.26volts. Thing runs way cooler than 8700k at same clocks. Im even ocing cache to 3ghz. I just got a 200 in Cbench single thread which is what I use to represent IPC.

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HT = heat that's why I was interested in the 8600k, but got a hell of a deal on a 7700k.

I think my last cpu for awhile will be a straight 8 core Intel(no HT). Since I have no interest in water cooling
 
There isn't much difference between 2 equally clocked 8600K and 8700K in power consumption, hence heat.

8600K clocks to 4.3Ghz default, 8700K clocks to 4.7Ghz default. 4.1 vs 4.3 on all cores.
 
Speedeu4ia said:
HT = heat that's why I was interested in the 8600k, but got a hell of a deal on a 7700k.

I think my last cpu for awhile will be a straight 8 core Intel(no HT). Since I have no interest in water cooling
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HT doesn’t equal heat. Where did you get the nonsense idea from?
 
Speedeu4ia said:
I can turn HT off in bios and now my load temps drop

What's your explanation?
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How much difference? Something like Linpack for example the effect of HT is pretty much zero. HT and non HT chips both from AMD and Intel tend to have the same TDP because they are so close anyway.

So how much are we talking about in watts?
 
Correct. HT is a decoder and handful of jellybeans on top of the bulk which already exists. In itself, it does not consume a very significant amount of power.

It does increase power if your workload per-thread was not really good at fully saturating the execution units in its core. In that case though it isn't really that HT is using more power as much as it is your CPU is now really getting used fully - so you're going towards normal fully saturated energy use.

HT is well worth the energy cost. If you disable it, a little piece of me dies.
 
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Shintai said:
How much difference? Something like Linpack for example the effect of HT is pretty much zero. HT and non HT chips both from AMD and Intel tend to have the same TDP because they are so close anyway.

So how much are we talking about in watts?
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well at 4.8 my 7700k running Aida64 cpu/fpu cpu package says 95 watts and temps hit 81c(fan running 2400rpm), My Kill a watt meter says 143 watts at the plug

turn HT off and ofcourse less work is being done, but I get CPU package of 68 watts and temps of 62C(fan running 2000rpm,), My kill a watt meter says 110 watt at the plug

I guess its going to be hard to quantify but compared to 8600k near the same power draw, slightly more work being done and 10c lower temps from what I see
 
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well at 4.8 my 7700k running Aida64 cpu/fpu cpu package says 95 watts and temps hit 81c(fan running 2400rpm), My Kill a watt meter says 143 watts at the plug

turn HT off and ofcourse less work is being done, but I get CPU package of 68 watts and temps of 62C(fan running 2000rpm,), My kill a watt meter says 110 watt at the plug

I guess its going to be hard to quantify but compared to 8600k near the same power draw, slightly more work being done and 10c lower temps from what I see
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So you are just going with lower performance instead because the non HT chip is under utilized in your bench. There are much better ways if you want to save power over performance. If you ran Linpack for example the power draw would be about equal, HT or not.
 
Make that a 202 ... on a damn I5 ... with less cache. The I5 is a great gamer chip for sure that I will not lie. 4.8 all core. 5.2 ghz will probably get me a 210 lol... but I need to delid this I5 first and I do not have a delidder for this socket type.

Really pushes every inch of performance out of my gtx 1060 6gb thats in the Coffee Lake machine.

The 7820x is pushing twin 1080ti Poseidons without even a huff. I have no doubt that Coffee Lake can run SLI even at 8x 8x without even sweating.
 
Shintai said:
So you are just going with lower performance instead because the non HT chip is under utilized in your bench. There are much better ways if you want to save power over performance. If you ran Linpack for example the power draw would be about equal, HT or not.
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No I'm running HT

Where can I get linpack that works so I can test. Downloaded 2 diff versions and neither work
 
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