Who's buying Skylake-X? (You may now change your vote)

[palladium]

Waiting for TR and i9 to be available and reviewed. Am curious how much IPC improvement CFL will bring over KBL, though (doubt it will exceed 5% based on what we know so far, apart from corner cases).

 

[palladium]

You know it is bad when your BIOS battery will likely die before your CPU is obsolete and unusable.

Hahaha my X58 BIOS battery is still alive and kicking, but my i7 920 is certainly showing signs of ageing.....

 

[Donts00tmesanta]

I'm barely on haswell!

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Hahaha my X58 BIOS battery is still alive and kicking, but my i7 920 is certainly showing signs of ageing.....

I had to replace the CMOS battery in my old Q6600 server last year (at the 9 year mark). I bet my 2600k isn't too far behind.

 

[Ajay]

I think they'll eat the extra packaging costs in exchange for the modularity and ability to build a wide proliferation of SKUs. Intel's modus operandi appears to be aggressive product segmentation and this looks like a great way to get there.

Long term I think that may be true. Babak Sabi talks about two die solutions, and that makes sense from a practical standpoint because Intel will need to prove this in the field first. In addition, it seems to be marketed, currently as an advantage to lure in foundry customers. So, I don't expect to see anything complex on the client side any time soon.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Waiting for TR and i9 to be available and reviewed. Am curious how much IPC improvement CFL will bring over KBL, though (doubt it will exceed 5% based on what we know so far, apart from corner cases).

IPC? There will be no improvement. It's just 6c Kabylake.

 

[Arachnotronic]

IPC? There will be no improvement. It's just 6c Kabylake.

The larger L3 cache and faster (official) DDR4 support (DDR4-2666 vs DDR4-2400) should increase effective perf/MHz in some scenarios, but the core should be identical.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Will L3 per core change, or will it just be a larger L3 per the higher core count?

 

[Ajay]

Will L3 per core change, or will it just be a larger L3 per the higher core count?

Same per core, so higher because of the higher core count.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

No option to change your vote?

 

[Ajay]

No option to change your vote?

No. It's an option when the OP creates the poll.

 

[SKORPI0]

Since I've been upgrading every 5 years (2002, 2007, 2012) perhaps it's time to do so.

 

[Ajay]

Since I've been upgrading every 5 years (2002, 2007, 2012) perhaps it's time to do so.

If you want to avoid some of the teething problems with this platform, I'd suggest you wait a month or two. There will be new BIOSes, drivers and more extensive QVLs.
If you want more excitement - don't wait

 

[Edrick]

Pre-ordered my 7820X today.

However, I was giving Intel the middle finger the entire time I was ordering for gimping the AVX-512 on the 6C/8C parts.

 

[Ajay]

Pre-ordered my 7820X today.

However, I was giving Intel the middle finger the entire time I was ordering for gimping the AVX-512 on the 6C/8C parts.

Oh, 6 & 8 cores, I thought it was just the hex-core. Good ole Intel, nothing is for free!

 

[Edrick]

Oh, 6 & 8 cores, I thought it was just the hex-core. Good ole Intel, nothing is for free!

Yup. Only i9's have the dual AVX ports.

 

[wildhorse2k]

If you are considering the 7820X think whether you cannot wait 1-2 months and use saved money to buy a 7900X. It's a more future proof CPU and full AVX-512.

 

[ManyThreads]

For the average user, would AVX-512 have any real benefit?

 

[Saylick]

For the average user, would AVX-512 have any real benefit?

No. Most applications don't even take advantage of AVX to begin with, let alone AVX-512. I can't remember the exact statistic, but I'd wager less than 5% of consumer applications take advantage of AVX.

 

[lolfail9001]

I do not know why anyone who plans on even touching multiplier on their chip want to have dual AVX-512 ports. It is just additional heat generated, since AVX offset is clearly not well implemented. Sure, it's faster but the big deal about AVX512 is the CD instruction, not larger throughput.

 

[Edrick]

If you are considering the 7820X think whether you cannot wait 1-2 months and use saved money to buy a 7900X. It's a more future proof CPU and full AVX-512.

I still plan on buy a LGA3647 Xeon Gold (full AVX-512, 6-channel memory. etc.), so I think I will be ok with a 7820X (HT turned off).

Plus I will be upgrading CPUs to CannonLake-X as soon as those come out due to the increased AVX-512 instructions added.

 

[formulav8]

The larger L3 cache and faster

Isn't the L3 cache increase par for the course for Intel?. Meaning having 2MB per core is optimal per what Anand said way back when from what Intel told him? Isn't the per-core L3 cache going to be lower than KL per core this time? I think I saw 9 MB L3 but could be wrong of course. If correct that means 1.5 per core not 2 as usual for their top sku.

 

[Ferzerp]

I have no need for a cpu with more than 4C/8T at this time, so no.

 

[IEC]

No option to change your vote?

Yeah, wish there was that option. I voted yes originally, but after seeing thermals and power consumption I am content to wait and see how Coffee Lake does for my next Intel build.

For workstation, it's looking like it will be Threadripper + ECC RAM (unless AMD fails to deliver, somehow).

 

[ddogg]

Thermals and power consumption look absolutely horrendous. Not sure if coffee lake is going to be any better than what we've seen here. I guess the smart move is to play the waiting game until TR and coffee lake is out.