patrickjp93

I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. AMD is cherry picking components to compare. Anandtech will clear this up in short order after launch.

The paste isn't the problem either. Both Intel and AMD use Dow Corning between the die and IHS (see AMD APUs). The problem is the glue Intel uses is so viscous the spacing between die and IHS is inconsistent and can be too large. That's the single biggest contributing factor to the temperatures. Just removing the glue and applying Dow Corning reduces temps by 15-20 degrees. The extra 5 CLU gets you is great, but you have to reapply CLU every 12 months or so.

The substrate bends have all been found to be caused with abusive mounting force such as with a power drill. The reports stopped after the first few for exactly this reason. It's not an actual problem.

The only die we have is an 8-core, and the 6900K is a cut-down 10-core die. Seriously people, think... And even if this is a quad-core module, Intel has the iGPU included and AMD doesn't. Either way, huge density DISadvantage for AMD.

Considering they vastly outnumber GPUs and other accelerators in datacenters across the world, yes, they're typical. And mind you consumer software just doesn't make use of advanced CPUs. Hell games still really haven't discovered vectorization despite SSE being 11 years old now. We can get 10x CPU performance improvements from Sandy Bridge on just by changing some industry standard code into AVX intrinsics. You wouldn't even need multithreading at that point. 1 core on a 2600K using AVX can outperform the entire 6950X using scalar but multithreaded code. That should have the community up in arms against bad development studio practices, and yet... If consumer software truly necessitated those core counts, Intel would provide them cheaply, but such software really doesn't exist outside of the professional apps like the Adobe/Sony suites.

The very biggest chips in the world are CPUs. Knight's Landing is nearly 700mm sq.. The 8890 V3 is 662mm sq.. Back on 90nm the top Xeon was 710mm sq.. The biggest GPU die ever I believe was big Maxwell at just 610mm sq..

Until you get to industry where the old guard is too set in its ways...

GTFO, Dual Omnipath HD 4x for 1T connectivity.

This would be even faster, use the best networking, believe me. Also... XL!!! You can get 4TB SATA SSDs now, so half a Petabyte of high-speed storage is cache vs. the 1PB of SATA HDDs for big storage...

Instead of the Storinator, it'll be "THE CACHINATOR SPEED DEMON XL!!!" Also, he'll get the 4TB versions TYVM...

@LinusTech...

You just need an LSI card and 2 external enclosures You can run 128 drives off of a 2-port MegaRaid card.