Last time I looked rice/beans/ramen are ULTRA cheap. No reason to eat out of a trash can with that kind of fine cuisine available.
Dudes and dudettes, the Xeon E5 2687w v4 -- a 12 core/24 thread Broadwell-EP that runs at 3GHz base/3.5GHz turbo -- sells for $2100.
There is no way a 10 core Broadwell-E at 3GHz base/3.5Ghz turbo is going to sell for the same price or higher. This will be a $1500 chip.
Interesting in this context is that Apple apparently is releasing something for WWDC with Xeon, and FCPX. People who were at FCPExchange report that there was presentation held by Apple, and before they would attend it they would have to sign huge list of NDA's.
I'm expecting retail availability before Computex by now. So who's upgrading to Broadwell-E and what's your motherboard?
I'm expecting retail availability before Computex by now. So who's upgrading to Broadwell-E and what's your motherboard?
This can only be a new Mac Pro. That's the only Apple product that uses a Xeon as far as I can tell, and Final Cut Pro X was used as the showcase application for the last Mac Pro release (it was one of the few apps that could make full use of the dual GPUs).
I did plan to upgrade to Broadwell-E from the rig in my signature, but I think I'm going to wait for the next HEDT platform instead. My current rig has plenty of life left.
I'm expecting retail availability before Computex by now. So who's upgrading to Broadwell-E and what's your motherboard?
If you need a brand new skylake CPU with 4.8ghz OC to manage 65fps out of your game, then your game is a complete POS.
That said, my eyes are set for Skylake-E as being the legit platform for non Haswell-E people.
I'm expecting retail availability before Computex by now. So who's upgrading to Broadwell-E and what's your motherboard?
I'm expecting retail availability before Computex by now. So who's upgrading to Broadwell-E and what's your motherboard?
Ya and by the time SLK-E is out, i7 6700K will be almost 2 years old and we'll be just a year or so away from Intel's next major Icelake architecture in 2H 2018. That's why Intel's X99 vs. Z170 strategy pisses me off. Chances are 10-12 core 2017 SKL-E won't overclock much better than i7 6700K. That's an opportunity cost of nearly 2 years of waiting to get "99% identical gaming performance." Thanks Intel. :sneaky:
moonbogg, like you I am anxious to see how the new consumer King of big core processors, the Broadwell E 6950x, OCs. Sitting on my "measily" 5960x at 4.4 I will be relegated to a second class status!
Seriously, I hope they do make significant improvement, but my gut says Intel is focused on the Skylake 6700k so Broadwell E will be a blip on the radar.
When I built my Devil's Canyon rig, I did it because my 3770k's mb failed and Skylake was a few months out. I was able to re use the DDR3 2400 ram so my upfront $$ was less than waiting for the 6700k.
I've decided to focus my efforts on GPU upgrades this cycle and will ride my Haswell E and Haswell cpus out another cycle.
Sounds good! And yes, sadly you will soon become a second class citizen. How do you think I feel? Having a CPU as old as mine puts me on the same level as a stray cat or something. I lost my rights to be human sometime after Ivy bridge.
If Apple will release new Mac Pro with Broadwell Xeon E5v4 and either Polaris or Fury class GPU - I'm buying it .
What if they update it with Zen?
They won't. Zen for a Mac Pro class computer won't be available until 2017.
Is the Opteron part not launching at the same time as Zen CPU? I assumed it would just be an MCM, like past parts.
6950x=14nm;5960x=22nm; 3930k=32nm
10 cores; 8 cores; 6 cores
Negative. Summit Ridge is expected to arrive late 2016, but AMD is very clear that the server grade chips won't sample until this quarter (Q2) and won't be in shipping systems until 2017.