I could have sworn I read that the Skylake is not supported on 300-series or above chipsets and Coffee Lake and above does not support below the 300-series chipsets.
So you’d have to replace your motherboard anyways.
I really want to see how these still stack up against Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge EP, because right now the market is being subverted by people going out and buying things like 2690V2s and baseclocking the hell out of them. The end of Moore’s law has sort of painted Intel into a corner, that massive army of super old but still very powerful server processors they sold 5 years ago is coming back to haunt them.
True. I’m still running Skulltrail over here, with two X5460’s at 3.6Ghz.
Platform shows it’s age, M.2 storage has benefits that I can’t forever keep denying…
This 9900K might serve me for another ten years. Overkill for now, still fast enough in the future.
I’ve calculated the prices from the webshops that have popped up and have gone done again, with how much they deviate from standard pricing according to their 8700k pricing, rounded up a little.
If my math is right:
i7: €/$ 299,-
i9: €/$ 499,-
