Skylake Thread

[Kal-EL]

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August/September 2015 Release Date!

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Source: http://www.pcfrm.com/intel-core-i7-6...yinda-geliyor/ (http://www.pcfrm.com/intel-core-i7-6700k-haziran-ayinda-geliyor/)

Leaked Benchmarks (http://www.pcfrm.com/intel-i7-6700k-vs-i7-4790k/ (http://www.pcfrm.com/intel-i7-6700k-vs-i7-4790k/))

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[Kal-EL]

http://www.bitsandchips.it/52-english-news/5807-broadwell-ex-ep-disappeared-from-latest-enterprise-intel-roadmaps
Some of our internal sources told us that the Enterprise declination of Broadwell architecture is recently disappeared from the latest Intel roadmaps. The Enterprise CPUs will go directly from Haswell to Skylake.







This is a big surprise, because this confirms that Broadwell architecture is a failure all along the line: the desktop variant is available just by two models (i5-5675C and i7-5775C), while the Mobile versions are still barely available despite the majestic advertisement.

Lately we have seen the appearance of the new Kaby Lake platform, between Skylake and Cannonlake, so we can argue that Intel is probably changing the roadmap of other products. Broadwell will not carry huge improvements over Haswell, so Intel could skip it. On the other hand, Skylake will carry the new AVX instructions and some other new impressive features.

[Kal-EL]

Some EVGA (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/mfrList.php?mfrid=339&campaign=social/forum/textlink) Z170 boards have leaked:

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http://icdn3.digitaltrends.com/image/z170_ftw-970x647-c.jpg

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http://www.digitaltrends.com/computi...ke-release/#/3 (http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/evga-shows-off-z170-series-motherboards-ahead-of-intel-skylake-release/#/3)

[Kal-EL]

4 days till launch, anybody got new useful info to share?

[OC Maximus]

Interesting read on DDR4 with Skylake.

http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/price-v-performance-645x546.jpg

http://www.legitreviews.com/ddr4-memory-scaling-intel-z170-finding-the-best-ddr4-memory-kit-speed_170340/6

[OC Maximus]

Looks like dancop pulled off a 6.798 Mhz on HELiUM with Gskill Ripjaws and an Asus Maximus VIII Extreme .

The race is on :thumbsup:

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[OC Maximus]

Skylake hits 6.8ghz on LN2 with MSI Z170 XPOWER Gaming Titanium and A-Data Ram.

Looks promising :thumbsup:

Overclockers Push Intel's New i7-6700K Skylake CPU to a Whopping 6.8 GHz (http://news.softpedia.com/news/overclockers-manage-to-push-the-new-core-i7-6700k-skylake-to-whopping-6-8ghz-488836.shtml)

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[Kal-EL]

Nice, these guys are already done benching Skylake ES. Wonder how the retails hold up.

[Kal-EL]

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core/Z170/C7Z170-SQ.cfm

[Kal-EL]

Intel pumping demand by constraining supply. Lets see how high the prices go since its widely unavailable.

[OC Maximus]

August 5th came and went. Where da chips at? :this:

[OC Maximus]

6700k no longer "coming soon" status on newegg.

Paper Launch?

A release of a product, especially a computer component, in extremely limited quantities, making it very difficult for consumers to get their hands on. The purpose of this is generally for a company to be able to say "we have the fastest chip", before they can actually produce large numbers of them.

Thus, the product isn't really "launched" to the market, it's only launched in press releases, hence "paper" launches.
"Hey man, I can't find any vendors that sell the new, ultra-fast Intel chip. Have you found it anywhere yet?"

"Nope, nobody has it. It's just another paper launch."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=paper+launch

[Kal-EL]

Yelp, gonnna have to wait to actually touch this mythical chip. Unless you're part of the "special crowd" that benches and reveals performance which is meaningless to the majority of hard cash paying gaming crowd. All the gamers are saying is GFY till I get my hands on it.

[kikicoco1334]

got a lot of bills lately but i might pick one up soon or later...

[OC Maximus]

Good reviews but were are these chips?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117559&cm_re=6700k-_-19-117-559-_-Product

[kikicoco1334]

ROFL! ouch!

[OC Maximus]

Just one more day ;)

[OC Maximus]

6700k is finally in stock at the egg.

:club:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117559&cm_re=6700k-_-19-117-559-_-Product

But wait, there's more......

You must buy it as one of these combos.

http://www.newegg.com/Shopping/FailedAddtoCart.aspx?errorType=combo&item=N82E16819117559

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe tigerdirect?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9788451&Sku=

7762

[Kal-EL]

Skymonkey in flight, afternoon delight.

[Kal-EL]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9788451&Sku=GNT-103000694

Appears to be in stock at a markup.