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Would be interesting to see how this chip compares to i5-7400 (which we should find in value pre-builts) when using GTX 1050 Ti?
Definitely.
Would be interesting to see how this chip compares to i5-7400 (which we should find in value pre-builts) when using GTX 1050 Ti?
cbn said:Would be interesting to see how this chip compares to i5-7400 (which we should find in value pre-builts) when using GTX 1050 Ti?
Definitely.
It would be huge if Pentium G4600 also supports HT at $87, but I don't have specs yet. Note that these are early prices, could go down at launch or over time.
http://www.shopblt.com/search/order_id=%21ORDERID%21&s_max=25&t_all=1&s_all=BX80677
Skylake-EP. Skylake-X will be derived from Skylake-EP LCC die.
Just because it's capable doesn't mean it will be enabled. I think we will need confirmation for that. A big reason to disable, would be to move those likely to buy a SKL-X workstation to upgrade to a Xeon workstation (and fetch more $$s for Intel and it's vendors).
My guess is that the i5 7400 Pre-built will win on value if the goal is smoothest gameplay with new titles.
Perhaps, where the unlocked Core i3 7350K would shine most (in the Intel line-up) for gaming is when used with mid to high end 28nm dGPUs that can't be repurposed in Core i5-7400 value pre-builts (which typically lack room for such a dGPU and definitely lack in PSU). But even in this scenario it would need some kind of lower cost Z overclocking board to help make it work as a value.
EDIT: Thinking about a Core i3 7350K (with low cost DIY Z mobo) vs. I5 7400 (in a Pre-built) more......perhaps if the low cost Z board (used with the Core i3 7350K) had M.2 PCIe 3.0 x 4 that would help equalize things a bit.
One new bit of information that Intel confirmed at the SC16 press briefing was that Skylake-EP will utilize the 14nm plus process introduced first with Kaby Lake. Intel claimed improvements over the original 14nm process so it is great to see this technology utilized on Skylake-EP.
You're probably right, unfortunately. That was one of the great things about the G3258 budget overclocker. It came with a copper-cored stock heatsink, that would generally take the chip as far as a cheap H81 mobo could push it.
Now that's just an added expense for the i3-7350K. So much for being an ideal budget OC CPU.
Geez, that chart has only ~40 coolers - sure you couldn't find a bigger one
Anyway, buy a good cooler, keep it for a 6-10 years, and then what does it matter if it's $20 or $60?
$60 cooler IMO only makes sense if the person is planning on buying top tier gear sometime in the future.
Otherwise, for same price of a Core i3 7350K + $60 cooler a person could get a 4.1 Ghz (turbo) Core i5 7600 (which comes with a stock cooler) and then still save a few dollars. Actually, the savings would be more (in favor of the Core i5 7600) if we also assume the Core i3 7350K user also buys a Z board and faster RAM.
I literally just bought a Z170 board for $40, new.
Did you buy that from a friend? Or perhaps get that in a really good combo deal (like it I did with my G3258/MSI Z97 U3 plus combo for $100 back in 2014)? That is a great price.
P.S. Right now, cheapest Z170 board I can find is this one for $90. (This is $40 to $50 more than the lowest price LGA 1151 H boards). Perhaps, for i3 7350K one of the OEMs will make a Z270 version of this low cost Z97 board (which was intended for low cost overclocking of the G3258), but even I think the value argument might still be hard to make. I guess it depends on how well an OC i3 7350K with some DDR4 3000 (or whatever) scales compared to a Core i5 7400 with DDR4 2133 (or 2400) or even a Core i5 6400 (with DDR3L 1600).
If the 3.7Gh pentium with HTT comes true the whole i3 class will be hard to be argued for...but even I think the value argument might still be hard to make.
If the 3.7Gh pentium with HTT comes true the whole i3 class will be hard to be argued for...
60-70% more expensive for barely 15% more speed(before o/c) is a hard sale,unless the i3 will have some other important feature.
Yeah,they also have this listed,i3 without HT and 35w TDP,obviously someone mixed something up there.
Jeez,2.7Ghz is celeron speeds
Overall, Skylake is not an earth shattering leap in performance. In our IPC testing, with CPUs at 3 GHz, we saw a 5.7% increase in performance over a Haswell processor at the same clockspeed and ~ 25% gains over Sandy Bridge.
Custom? Xeon E5 v5 (Skylake-EP) might go up to 205W TDP.
Socketed Xeon phi
But only on one core,4 core turbo is 3.1It does turbo to 3.3 GHz though.