its really sad because this cpu no longer has a place anymore and is probably the worst black sheep one can get.
Why?
1. It doesnt overclock well, from looking at benchmarks.
So the whole i need moar cores + oc is sort of moot.
2. X class cpu's were mostly for gaming machines and avid overclockers, however again, overclockers are getting shot in the foot, and gamers are better off on a skylake with a higher core frequency + crazy fast ram.
3. Your gonna have your group that says again.. more cores... well, i can more core you on a full bloated enterprise platform with better features on a 2P board with faster base clock which would make the overclocking advantage on this X class very tiny if any.
So i would really like to see the silver lining to this cpu, however at that price point nothing is coming to my head.
If your a gamer, a 6700K with DDR4000 ram will reck this rig unless u intend to drop massive amounts of gpu on it which we all know SLI and Xfire pretty much SUCKS and is not worth it.
If your a production person well, a 2P processor lineup will offer you more cores and a larger ram pool.
If your both, a 2P machine will still give you a better base clock where the overclocking headroom will probably be very much moot in gaming terms, hence the 2P machines will most likely pull ahead in this run as well.
Sigh... again intel.. what the hell are you guys doing?
again... sigh... i am stupid for not getting the 5960x and waiting it off until skylake-e or x whatever they intend to, because this broadwell-e is like picking up that chick from a night club only to find out when lights go on, you completely saw her though beer goggles....
Getting a 6800k myself. Can't wait to get my hands on broadwell-e
Also I don't know why you recommend a $500 cpu when you can get equal or better performance for $350-$450
Are these memory scaling results legit? Holy crap.
1. SKL's memory controller is just a beast.
2. SKL is severely "under-fed" by mere 2133MHz memory.
Maybe SKL is a much bigger jump from HSW than we give it credit for. Dang.
We can only hope that AMD is at least reasonably close with its 8-core parts in Zen so we can get some more reasonable pricing in the HEDT segment. Yeesh.
This processor is purely for ego purposes.
PCI-E lanes, which to me are more important than a very minor performance bump (which is countered by Haswell-E being a better overclocker).
Finally got my 6800K, just finished upgrading the system. I'll do some overclocking soon, but first a fresh install of Windows 10 is required.
Good luck and keep us posted. I'm interested in the improvements.:thumbsup:
Intriguing. Tell me more about this possibility. Perhaps more specifically, how much does this 2P system cost?If your both, a 2P machine will still give you a better base clock where the overclocking headroom will probably be very much moot in gaming terms, hence the 2P machines will most likely pull ahead in this run as well.
Up and running. CPU at 4.1GHz, 1.25v. I think I'll leave it here for now, it's plenty fast.
Did you see instability above 4.1, or did you not try going higher?
Up and running. CPU at 4.1GHz, 1.25v. I think I'll leave it here for now, it's plenty fast.
Very nice! Reminds me a little bit of when I got my G4400 and was doing some BCLK OC.
Only you've got MOAR CORES!
I actually clocked mine back down to stock 3.3Ghz so I could use the iGPU. I didn't notice much loss in speed. My bottlenecks were mostly elsewhere.
It would seem my second crack at X99 is much better. All memory was recognized at boot, no stability problems, and so on. Happy camper here.
Do you plan on TRI-SLI or crossfire? Because you can can do normal dual cards just fine with 28 lanes...
Actually DOOM 2016 runs pretty well with more cores.
Using the logic you outlined above, Intel might as well raise the price of a 12 core SKL-X to $1999, then 14-core Cannonlake-X to $2199. Who cares right because the same people buying $1723 6950X will still buy it.