Are you going to just skip Broadwell?Post Date: 2015-08-11 |
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Tarcrat
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Topic: Are you going to just skip Broadwell? Posted: 11 Aug 2015 at 3:53am |
I've been waiting for Broadwell to come out before buying either an Eclipse or a Bolt II (now III), but I'm looking at the specs and it looks like you're going to skip Broadwell entirely and go straight to Skylake. Skylake has an awful TDP and is worse on benchmarks than Haswell and Broadwell. So...
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db188
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Quote Reply Posted: 11 Aug 2015 at 3:11pm |
i actually believe that Skylake is perfect for a SFF pc. you can easily fit a good quality AIO closed loop cooler into that configuration and it will adequately cool the cpu. Broadwell is largely irrelevant next to Skylake in the pc market conversation.
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Alex
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Quote Reply Posted: 11 Aug 2015 at 5:09pm |
Skylake is better than Broadwell, it overclocks better, runs cooler, etc... It has more powerful as well. The good thing about Broadwell was that the integrated graphics on the CPU was very powerful for a CPU. Since we don't really focus on that segment of the lower-tier gaming PCs, we are skipping Broadwell.
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jonp200
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Quote Reply Posted: 18 Aug 2015 at 6:25pm |
PC World has a nice test series on Skylake just yesterday. The chipset performed very well vs. the previous generations
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2972823/components-processors/intel-skylake-laptop-cpus-should-use-less-power-run-faster-and-can-even-drive-three-4k-monitors.html |
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Tarcrat
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Quote Reply Posted: 21 Aug 2015 at 10:39am |
These reviews point to Broadwell being more energy efficient than Skylake.
http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-processor-reviewed/5 http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation/6 I'm looking for a computer, not a space heater. Alex, you say that Skylake runs cooler. Have you (as in DigitalStorm) done the tests to compare both yourself? Edited by Tarcrat - 21 Aug 2015 at 10:45am |
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Quote Reply Posted: 21 Aug 2015 at 11:20am |
The "K" series of unlocked chips will consume more power with a TDP of 91W, and more if overclocked.
When intel releases the rest of the Skylake range, the standard processors will have a 65W TDP, the low power "S" chips will have a 45W TDP, and the ultra-low power "T" chips (which look like they will finally have reasonable clock speeds) will have a 35W TDP. The Broadwell chips have a 65W TDP. |
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Alex
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Quote Reply Posted: 21 Aug 2015 at 1:52pm |
We've seen Skylake overclock better with lower temperatures.
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