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Intel Readies Skylake-X As its Next High-end Desktop Platform

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Intel's next high-end desktop (HEDT) platform to succeed the current "Broadwell-E" LGA2011v3 will be the X-series "Basin Falls" platform. This consists of the "Skylake-X" and "Kaby Lake-X" processors, and a chipset derived from Intel's upcoming 200-series. Just as Intel changed sockets for its previous three HEDT platforms (LGA1366 for "Nehalem" and "Westmere/Gulftown," LGA2011 for "Sandy Bridge-E" and "Ivy Bridge-E," and LGA2011v3 for "Haswell-E" and "Broadwell-E,") the company will launch a new socket, the LGA2066.

As with its HEDT predecessors, "Skylake-X" and "Kaby Lake-X" will be multi-core processors devoid of integrated graphics, with double the memory bus width and up to triple the PCIe lane budgets as the desktop ("Skylake-D," eg: Core i7-6700) processors. In an interesting move, Intel will launch both "Skylake-X" and "Kaby Lake-X" in quick succession, with a catch - "Skylake-X" will come in 6-core, 8-core, and 10-core variants; while the "Kaby Lake-X" will initially only be offered in quad-core. The "Kaby Lake-X" chip will further only feature a dual-channel memory bus, and the LGA2066 motherboard will have half its DDR4 DIMM slots disabled, besides a few PCIe lanes.



The Core i7 "Skylake-X" processors, besides coming in 6-core, 8-core, and 10-core variants, could have sub-variants with fewer PCIe lanes. All chips will, however, feature quad-channel memory interfaces. Besides the DMI 3.0 (PCI-Express 3.0 x4 physical layer) chipset bus, "Skylake-X" chips will offer up to 44 PCI-Express gen 3.0 lanes. Interestingly, the chipset will have a much wider downstream PCIe lane budget than what we're used to seeing on Intel PCH chips for the past several generations - it offers a whopping 22 PCI-Express gen 3.0 downstream lanes. This could prove useful in driving bandwidth-hungry onboard devices such as Thunderbolt controllers, multiple PCI-Express SSDs, etc.

Intel plans to launch the Core i7 "Skylake-X" processors in as early as Q3-2017 (July-September 2017).

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So, if you have LGA2011 already, nothing new at all. Sigh. And still this silly 6, 8 and 10 configuration. It should really be 10, 12 and 16. I mean, we had 6 core variant back in the Nehalem days with Core i7 980X. That was what, 6 or 7 years ago? Absurd.
 
Intel are running at 200MPH into a brick wall lately, Kaby Lake is just a joke and now this? LOL
 
Intel are running at 200MPH into a brick wall lately, Kaby Lake is just a joke and now this? LOL

Yeah, WTF? Kaby Lake is quad core... so Kaby Lake X is... quad core. Does this mean Intel's Kaby Lake release won't feature overclocking friendly SKU's? so that the 'X' designation allows it to be OC friendly?
 
Yeah, WTF? Kaby Lake is quad core... so Kaby Lake X is... quad core. Does this mean Intel's Kaby Lake release won't feature overclocking friendly SKU's? so that the 'X' designation allows it to be OC friendly?

Only time will tell how this all pans out, but to me it looks like intel are running out of puff in performance terms, and trying to fill gaps in their HEDT platform, really the lowest end chip should be a 6 core.
 
Considering the new platform, this could be the CPU that enthusiasts have been asking for - a quad core CPU with a soldered IHS.
 
Considering the new platform, this could be the CPU that enthusiasts have been asking for - a quad core CPU with a soldered IHS.

Really? there are a tonne of options for a Quad Core with a soldered heatsink lol.
 
I think you're all missing the point though. This is like having one socket for mainstream and HEDT CPUs isn't it? Doesn't that make upgrading from quad to 6c+ easier if you don't want to invest the funds in more cores right off the bat?
 
I think you're all missing the point though. This is like having one socket for mainstream and HEDT CPUs isn't it? Doesn't that make upgrading from quad to 6c+ easier if you don't want to invest the funds in more cores right off the bat?

No that method is factually more expensive.
 
Still 28 lanes on some chips, and you can bet your ass that the 44 lane ones will sell at even higher a price premium over the 28 lane chips than 40 lane variants of current chips do over 28 lane ones

The sole reason they chose 28 lanes is because people want 32 for dual gpu's

assholes
 
:roll::roll:
you are trying to be AMUSING ??
Have you seen the number of threads in the past few years of people complaining about Intel's change to paste from solder? For a lot of people it was like the world ended when they did it with Ivy Bridge. Not everyone can afford or can benefit from 6+ core CPUs.
 
Considering the new platform, this could be the CPU that enthusiasts have been asking for - a quad core CPU with a soldered IHS.

Aren't all HEDT chips on LGA2011 with soldered IHS? Or that epoxy thermal solution which is still way better than normal grease that was used with 49xx series of i7's ?
 
No that method is factually more expensive.
Replacing any hardware you already bought is going to be more expensive than buying it outright but, not everyone has that option but, you know what would make it even more expensive? Replacing the motherboard too. :)
 
Have you seen the number of threads in the past few years of people complaining about Intel's change to paste from solder? For a lot of people it was like the world ended when they did it with Ivy Bridge. Not everyone can afford or can benefit from 6+ core CPUs.
This is HEDT not mainstream, 1366 had 4 core chips with HT as their minimum because it was 2008.
 
I dont get the point of Kaby Lake-X.
 
This is HEDT not mainstream, 1366 had 4 core chips with HT as their minimum because it was 2008.

Don't forget, LGA1366 also had 980X which was a 6 core with 12 threads. That was also back in 2009-ish?
 
Still 28 lanes on some chips, and you can bet your ass that the 44 lane ones will sell at even higher a price premium over the 28 lane chips than 40 lane variants of current chips do over 28 lane ones

The sole reason they chose 28 lanes is because people want 32 for dual gpu's

assholes

Zen is 32, I'm guessing. Oh, boy, Zen needs to perform and steal all these sales.
 
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I dont get the point of Kaby Lake-X.

Yeah sound a bit strange, maybe they exists in the same time and real upgrade for the same socket will be Cannon Lake X(intel tick tock is no more)...

But most of these processors are E5 Xeons anyway, with targeted use cases.
 
Sorry "" NO SALE "" not interested in buying disabled Equipment "ROLL ON ZEN"

Then don't buy that one specific chip. You act like there won't be disabled chips with Zen...
 
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