Watch this first! If you've been living under a rock and want to hear our first impressions of the intel SkyLake CPU and what it means for gamers, overclockers and enthusiasts then this video is your first stop.
Skylake has a number of changes under the hood, but Intel hasn't shared a great deal of detail so far. We're going to put the CPU through the paces and see how it stacks up with prior generations.
We've also got upcoming reviews of both the ASRock Extreme 7+ and the Asus Z170 Deluxe as well as an overclocker's guide. Make sure you're subscribed to the hardware channel at youtube.com/teksyndicate
Skylake is indeed realy interessting. THey have been getting rid of the FIVR, and they give us more overclocking options on bclock and cache. Looks like intel has been going oldschool, and thats good news to overclock enthusiasts. Motherboards with decent vreg designs are going to make sense again, and that sounds like music to my ears.
Anyway, the thing im highly interessted in, since intel gives us more control of bclock and cache overclocking. if they are going to give us overclocking options on new Xeon E3 chips. Xeon E3 chips with adjustable Bclocks, for just a few bucks more then an core i5 would be amazing.
Holy crap. I am still rocking a Q6600. How'd you guess? Was going to upgrade to something better this year, but medical bills have delayed it till 2017. But by then, Zen will be out and probably the thing that comes after Cannonlake. If my case supported cooling, like, any kind, I could probably overclock this old clunker and still get a year out of it.
I'm really looking forward to seeing how DirectX 12 shapes future games, in terms of CPU usage. Like, when games are made from the ground up on DX12, not ported to uses some of it. May not actually need a CPU that's so powerful going forward.
@wendell any plans for videos with JJ from ASUS or folks from other MOBO manufacturers discussing their new socket 1151 boards? (similar to the X99 videos that were made).
(I was living under a rock for some time by the way....) When I was getting to the middle of the video, I was saying: "Wendell, I love you. ............ Erm..... No, I don't. Your just awsome". And I was like about Skylake: "Meh, it's enough to say it is something else and more, but not: THE BOMB". And then when you said thank you for going through the video and your drowning on I cracked up and said: "Wendell, I love you XD.". Lol, thanks. Seriously!!!
One thing that is nice about skylake is the extra bandwidth from DMI 3.0 for peripherals. Though if you had two of those PCIe SSDs (the 750s) and raided them, it would bottleneck. My workhose system of choice remains X99 but my home computer is going to probably be skylake (it is a Z87 system right now). The reason is 1) because I have it and 2) upgrade SSD bandwidth (rocking an ollllddddddd crucial 512gb right sata now). However, my home (linux) server is X79 and all the cool stuff I do there anyway, and run the apps forwarded remotely via ssh on windows so I can still play games. I think, but not sure, I will build a skylake-based system for my "home computer" and virtualize windows so I don't have any real windows machines at home anymore. I think KVM is stable enough now I can do that and still play games when I want to, but have a bit of fun with a linux setup. The skylake igpu will make this easy, and I have messed around with that dual booting on the Z87 that I feel like I could live with it. I'm also satisfied enough with my syncthing setup for replicating parts of my home directory across half a dozen systems that I honestly think this is the least headache option for me (I'm a pragmatist, so I tend to go with the low-friction options).
I am hoping we'll someday see a 6 core skylake part, but we may have to wait till skylake-E. If you don't think about generational cpu upgrades as being about computational speed and more about better connectivity, what we have right now is not so much the CPUs getting faster, but the entire rest of the system catching up. In what.. 5-6 years we've gone from 80 megabyte/sec hard drives to 2200 megabyte/sec SSD. Previously, hard drive speeds had been incremental improvements for the better part of 50 years (if you go back to mainframes) with only a half dozen or so 'leaps' in the efficiency of the technology.
The next breakthrough transition, likely some kind of quantum computing or hybrid computing, may do for computation what going from vacuum tubes to modern silicon has done Until then, the gains will be from adding more transistors for specific kinds of workloads (gpus for massively parallel stuff, other specialized instruction sets for things like vp9 compression or whatever), improving peripheral interconnectivity (look at hbm for example, that's where we're headed.. itx will be loads of fun when the ram sticks are the size of microSD cards) and improving external bandwidth as well.
I'm more waiting on crystal storage for hopefully petabytes of cheap storage, someday anyways, I'd imagine SSDs are going to hit a wall at some point, dunno if it's going to be nearly as fast as SSDs are even now though.
I suppose the better question is then, if you were to buy a new home system, would it be X99 over skylake?
