Intel documentation confirms the existence of Z390 and X399 chipsets

My very first PC was an Athlon 500 with an 80gb drive it was as high spec as they came back then and cost me £1500 all those years ago and by the time it was delivered it was out of date. I have never been cutting edge since and probably never will.
 
My first PC was a 286 I was given for free back in like, 1994. I had this kid around the corner who used to get bullied a lot and I ended up sticking up for him and we became pals. He was a genius. Any way, he then sold me his 486 DX266 (66mhz) for peanuts (about £40) as he had bought a Pentium 133. I was hooked, from the moment I loaded up Indy Car Racing and Nascar. Initially I was on a B&W monitor and soon upgraded to a ISA VGA card that ran colour and a new monitor. And it just went from there. I had just stopped using drugs, so PCs became my next addiction. I was finally thinking very clearly after 8 years of using cannabis hard. Like, a quarter a day hard.

Coming out of that was so amazing. I could think again. Mind you, if I am being honest without it I think I would have committed suicide, because my anger was out of control.

A lot of people like me self medicate tbh. Using uppers and downers to suit their mood.

But yeah, PCs have been my obsession ever since. Bikes have stepped into the fray now though, but I still love my PC stuff :)
 
AlienALX said:
But yeah, I am no longer going to chase tech. Like, trying to run something bleeding edge or unconventional (like three screens, SLi, Triple SLi etc). None of them are supported properly and usually die and fall to the wayside (like wide screen gaming etc etc). All of it just brings you issues on day one that sometimes are never fixed. 3D was the same.. Yeah, I am now one of the masses. I don't want to stick out any more just give me lovely games that work.
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^This is why I have never opted for SLI, multiple monitors (had 2 at work which were often a pain) or ultra wides. I'm a 1 screen, 1 card and be happy kinda guy.

As for the original topic of this thread; HEDT is going way too fast at the moment with too little to show for it interms of improvements IMHO. All these massive core numbers are great for some prosumers but personally I don't see the need for more than 6 cores for my use. I'll take clockspeed at 6C over lower frequency with more cores.
 
TheF34RChannel said:
^This is why I have never opted for SLI, multiple monitors (had 2 at work which were often a pain) or ultra wides. I'm a 1 screen, 1 card and be happy kinda guy.

As for the original topic of this thread; HEDT is going way too fast at the moment with too little to show for it interms of improvements IMHO. All these massive core numbers are great for some prosumers but personally I don't see the need for more than 6 cores for my use. I'll take clockspeed at 6C over lower frequency with more cores.
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In the before time (lol I am being silly a bit here..) I ran a single GTX 470 with a Zalman cooler and a single screen. And it was awesome, right up until I ran out of VRAM. So I bought a 6970 Lightning 2gb and it died :( that is when I started doing all of the dumb stuff that 1% of 1% of users have. And my wallet has learned the hard way :D

Since going back to a single card (Titan XM instead of Fury X CFX) it has been so lovely. A game comes out and I just load it up and the Titan just tears it apart. Awesome....
 
Just got quite a nice bonus, and I'm really split on what to do. Go 2700x or 8700k. Or wait and hope for a z390 with a new 8core cpu that clocks like the 8700k :-/
 
Korreborg said:
Just got quite a nice bonus, and I'm really split on what to do. Go 2700x or 8700k. Or wait and hope for a z390 with a new 8core cpu that clocks like the 8700k :-/
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If that will be Coffee Lake based I bet it won't happen. Or if it does, bend over and open your wallet wide, very wide.

I would honestly say get a 2700X with an X470 board. Then if you want to upgrade the CPU before 2020, you won't be forced to buy a new board for the sake of it
 
g0ggles1994 said:
If that will be Coffee Lake based I bet it won't happen. Or if it does, bend over and open your wallet wide, very wide.

I would honestly say get a 2700X with an X470 board. Then if you want to upgrade the CPU before 2020, you won't be forced to buy a new board for the sake of it
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You are probably right. I have already had a 2700x, asus x470 strix + G-skill RGB ram in the basket. And ekwb makes a Monoblock for the MB. But something is holding me back :)
 
I'm guessing that the Z#70 and Z#90 chipsets are going to coexist then maybe ?

Maybe have the 70 chipset for the slightly lower core count but higher core clock and the 90 chipset for the slightly higher core count but lower clock.

Just a theory.
 
The putative 8C doesn't require a new chipset. Z390 is nothing more than the original Z370 plus some Wi-Fi stuff, whereas Z370 is merely a slightly altered Z270 in order to push out the 8th generation chips - the now called Z390 wasn't ready yet. And yes, you can run all chips on all boards. Problem solved :)
 
Well i'm having yet another rough work week, so nothing is gonna happen until next weekend. And knowing myself, i will change my mind 100 times :D

Right now i'm leaning towards 2700x. I game at 1440p, so the difference isn't that big.
 
TheF34RChannel said:
The putative 8C doesn't require a new chipset. Z390 is nothing more than the original Z370 plus some Wi-Fi stuff, whereas Z370 is merely a slightly altered Z270 in order to push out the 8th generation chips - the now called Z390 wasn't ready yet. And yes, you can run all chips on all boards. Problem solved :)
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Intel will make sure to put something in place to make sure Z370 owners can never run the new chips even though the "new" chipset is basically just Z370.
 
Dicehunter said:
Intel will make sure to put something in place to make sure Z370 owners can never run the new chips even though the "new" chipset is basically just Z370.
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But CPU's normally work in 2 generations
z87 and z97
z170 and z270
z370 and z390 should be compatible. If we are lucky might even z470 or more.
Intel needs to do something against AMD's AM4 until 2020

It has been speculated that the physical change in pin "function" from z270 to z370 is to accommodate higher core CPU's. It's probably right. And there is no point in a z390 chipset, if they don't come with new CPU's. But i haven't seen any good leaks yet :(
 
Korreborg said:
But CPU's normally work in 2 generations
z87 and z97
z170 and z270
z370 and z390 should be compatible. If we are lucky might even z470 or more.
Intel needs to do something against AMD's AM4 until 2020

It has been speculated that the physical change in pin "function" from z270 to z370 is to accommodate higher core CPU's. It's probably right. And there is no point in a z390 chipset, if they don't come with new CPU's. But i haven't seen any good leaks yet :(
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I'll believe it when I see it, Intel don't do good things for their customers like AMD do i.e supporting the same socket for a good few years, I expect nothing to change on that front.
 
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