meloz
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- Jul 8, 2008
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Don't know what is more disappointing: Skylake, or Anandtech's "review".
I expected this website's quality to fall after Shimpi sold out, just not this sharply. I would go in detail about all that can be improved, but why bother. Would be an utter waste of my time. Besides you can always go back and read earlier generation CPU reviews (like the Sandy Bridge review, that was a good one) and see how the mighty have fallen.
What is up with that laughable "Sandy Bridge, Your Time Is Up" warcry towards the end. Do Intel pay extra for publishing such twaddle? Perhaps they hope that people who do not read the benchmarks carefully will throw their perfectly decent Sandy Bridge systems and buy Skylake?
Rather underwhelming. I expected more. Both from Intel and Anandtech.
As for Skylake, where to begin. Another CPU arch that could have delivered so much more if not crippled in design. Intel keep cheapening out on basic things like PCIe lanes. They give their new generation CPUs absurdly low memory speeds, when anyone could see months/year ago that 2133 MHz was aiming too low. It's as if they want to kill desktop. Worst there is no alternative, crippled-by-design / mental retardation it might be on Intel's part and yet Skylake is still better than anything from AMD.
Here's hoping next launch (Kaby?) actually delivers something tangible and desirable. New CPU launches -on both sides, Intel and AMD- continue to get more and more disappointing. These days we live in hope for a better future, because actual CPUs are so damn underwhelming. :|
I expected this website's quality to fall after Shimpi sold out, just not this sharply. I would go in detail about all that can be improved, but why bother. Would be an utter waste of my time. Besides you can always go back and read earlier generation CPU reviews (like the Sandy Bridge review, that was a good one) and see how the mighty have fallen.
What is up with that laughable "Sandy Bridge, Your Time Is Up" warcry towards the end. Do Intel pay extra for publishing such twaddle? Perhaps they hope that people who do not read the benchmarks carefully will throw their perfectly decent Sandy Bridge systems and buy Skylake?
Rather underwhelming. I expected more. Both from Intel and Anandtech.
As for Skylake, where to begin. Another CPU arch that could have delivered so much more if not crippled in design. Intel keep cheapening out on basic things like PCIe lanes. They give their new generation CPUs absurdly low memory speeds, when anyone could see months/year ago that 2133 MHz was aiming too low. It's as if they want to kill desktop. Worst there is no alternative, crippled-by-design / mental retardation it might be on Intel's part and yet Skylake is still better than anything from AMD.
Here's hoping next launch (Kaby?) actually delivers something tangible and desirable. New CPU launches -on both sides, Intel and AMD- continue to get more and more disappointing. These days we live in hope for a better future, because actual CPUs are so damn underwhelming. :|