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    Re: Intel announces Core-X series CPU availability

    Quote Originally Posted by azrael- View Post
    I can't shake the feeling that 18 core processor is essentially vapourware considering it's only supposed to be available in October. Intel really seems to have been caught with its proverbial pants down by Ryzen and by extension Threadripper.
    Yes, but then the 14 and 16 cores are currently vapourware too. Somehow I had though that Xeon E7 (where these 14/16/18 cores come from) was a different socket with more pins. But no, their current max core count is the Xeon E7-8894 v4 (24 cores, 2.4GHz base with 3.4 single core turbo with a 165W TDP). So really, turning the upcoming Skylake Xeon E7 18-core into a Skylake-X basically involves disabling EEC and calling it a day? In which case, the Threadripper announcements* to October is probably enough time.
    *or the first rumours since Intel must presumably have some info about what the mobo manufacturers have planned)

    Quote Originally Posted by Xlucine View Post
    They're not on the same socket because they don't share memory channels. They share PCI lanes with the 7700K, and the first two characters are identical to chips on the small socket. It's just a refresh of the current small socket chips, that's the easiest option for intel to put out (rather than entirely custom motherboards for literally two chips) and makes the most sense competitively (jack up the clocks as high as it'll suffer to maximise the performance difference at 128x128)
    But they are on the same socket.
    Now what you might mean as that those Kabylake-X chips are LGA1151 chips routed into the LGA2066 socket in that they don't use the full facilities. Which is true. But Kabylake-X has 2066 pins, normal Skylake/Kabylake has 1151 pins.

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    Re: Intel announces Core-X series CPU availability

    Quote Originally Posted by Xlucine View Post
    They're not on the same socket because they don't share memory channels.
    It's a Kaby Lake with a speed bump slapped into the LGA2066 package. X299 is all one socket, don't confuse the packaging with the capability of the chips. The problems the mobo manufacturers have is designing a board that can support 16-44 PCIe lanes, dual channel / quad channel memory (so depending on cpu some memory slots are disabled). Essentially it's a highly fragmented platform. I suggest you watch the video linked.

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    Re: Intel announces Core-X series CPU availability

    I stand corrected - turns out expecting any sense from intel is a mistake. The datasheet shows the bottom two are on the big socket. How they expect this to compete with ryzen is beyond me - the small socket intel boards are already pricey, putting the refresh into the bigger socket will only make this worse (previously an 1800X was a big more expensive than the 7700K IIRC, with this the refresh will have to compete at the same price or more than the 1800X). It's fantastically stupid - not only is there less PCI lanes, there's less extra PCI lanes to hang hard drives off - so some SATA slots just won't work when you get a cheap CPU, there's no way this can confuse consumers.

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