Alleged Intel 8-core CPU spotted in 3DMARK - The 'core war' is starting
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AlienALX
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What did I say? yesterday. They need a response to Ryzen +. It is guaranteed 8 cores, so they are going to need one to be taken seriously. Especially if R+ clocks better.
In before any one calls me a pessimist
this is awesome ! for every one. Well, apart from Intel but jeff them right
Edit again. Just for info, 3Dmark says exactly the same about my CPU. Unless it is listed it lists it as seen in the pic. Mine says 2200mhz too, which is totally incorrect.
In before any one calls me a pessimist
this is awesome ! for every one. Well, apart from Intel but jeff them right Edit again. Just for info, 3Dmark says exactly the same about my CPU. Unless it is listed it lists it as seen in the pic. Mine says 2200mhz too, which is totally incorrect.
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AlienALX
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I can't remember if the 5960x was soldered? probably, but it was a hot SOB.
CL should alleviate some of that, but I can almost guarantee it will be paste. Why? because Intel must absolutely abhor selling a 8 core CPU to the desktop market. Especially when they have had 12 core CPUs at their disposal for nearly a decade. Yet they never had to sell more than four in the regular desktop market..
Man, this is gonna hurt lol. I mean yeah, they will still sell hand over fist (because Intel) but they are going to have to cough up so much of the tech they usually keep up their puckered little blue bum hole
TheF34RChannel
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Could/should be ice lake?
AlienALX
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Dunno I think they have had this ready for ages. I hope not, because they will probably come up with Z470 and render 370 dead tech. Hmm. Actually you know what? I heard Intel *were* releasing a new board some time in the summer. That may well ring true.
The biggest issue now though is going to be VRMs and the cooling on them. I have a 14/28 BE and whilst in most scenarios the 120mm AIO I have on it is fine, when it gets going it is actually scary. I am only able to leave it as it is due to the pretty low clocks and the fact that barely anything I run puts very heavy use on all of the cores and threads. However, recently I visited a football streaming site with a CPU miner built in (I realised when I could literally smell dust burning on the rad) and my CPU was going flat out and in the low 80s.
And that's the thing, see. If a game loads up 8/16 for serious lengths of time (IE gaming, what has destroyed my Mayhem Pastel) then it is going to need some serious fets and some serious cooling. Both on the CPU and the power delivery system.
And whether 370 boards were built with this in mind? I guess we will find out. I had a look over that recent thing about flashing a 270 board to run a 6/12 CL and how it actually caused quite serious issues.
I've seen that before, when certain board vendors *COUGH MSI* sold boards for Piledriver that were totally not capable of running Piledriver. They literally caught fire.
