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Just to confirm skylake will have a all new chipset pinout so your 9 series board is useless and you will need a 100 series board?
HA! I just realized I used "Skywell" in the title. Oh my.
There's also more localized heat transfer problems. With huge die, some cores are going to be surrounded on all sides by other cores. What we see on 4 core die with the middle cores being hotter than the outer cores...same thing scaled up.
there is a middle core? they are not 2x2?
At least it wasn't
If it was that, it'd be the best chipset in the Intel series
Sure, Skylake needs a brand-new chipset, bah!
But the big benefit of this new chipset is they are upgrading the PCH lane bandwidth to PCIe 3. The connection between the processor and PCH should double in speed, and they are adding several more flex-IO connectors, allowing for far more robust nVMe SSD options.
Then you have DDR4, which could be pretty impressive by the time of release.
It seems the new chipset, as opposed to the processors themselves, offer the biggest reason for people such as myself to hold off on an upgrade.
Here is another Anand broadwell review... (NUC this time)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8986/intel-nuc5i5ryk-review-a-broadwellu-ucffpc-for-enthusiasts
43% Performance Increase in the OpenCL Benchmarks but very little else ware.
11% Increase with 3dMark v11 but 15% drop in single threaded CineBench speed.
Ivy, Haswell, and now Broadwell boring
Not sure why anybody thought a die shrink of haswell would be exciting.
For mobile users, its good. Power users = jack shit
Ivy, Haswell, and now Broadwell boring
If game developers were pushing the upper limits of what we have already right now, then sure the clamoring for more progress would be warranted. However games have not been CPU bound for a long time now.
Dying light does not draw jack from my CPU.. Perhaps its my 280X, still, it feels ported because the 280X is a good card.
Games don't even take advantage of what we have now and people continue to cry about new improvements as boring.
If you are doing 'real' work then you have Xeon and even Phi chips at your disposal.
You need huge IPC improvements and moar clockspeed to run your browsers? Post on [H]? Watch YouTube? Really?
If game developers were pushing the upper limits of what we have already right now, then sure the clamoring for more progress would be warranted. However games have not been CPU bound for a long time now.
280x is an ok card paired with a rather high end processor. It's going to be your limiting factor In just about every single game out there, port or otherwise.
What about the Atom SoC refresh, Xeon D (D-1500)
Has that been pushed back?
Great Question, I've been eyeing the Avoton C2750 boards but concerned about that big refresh coming. However I can't find any information that has been updated this year about the Xeon D lineup.
Exact same situation..
I was going to pull the trigger on a few C2750 Boards, until I read about SoC refresh Q2.
The new SoC boards are 'supposed' to be a big performance increase.
Hoping someone has additional more information they can share
5960x is a little out of my comfort zone on price, but 5820k has certainly caught my eye. Wish I had a Microcenter around here.
Getting pretty bored with S1155 even if the performance is still fine. Had the same conversation after 4 years on Q6600.