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Intel released Core i5+, i7+ and i9+ with Optane memory bundled

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So, Intel has been struggling lately to push Optane memory to the masses, and one of those reasons is it's not very readily available, and they have a solution

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Welcome the Core i5+, i7+ and i9+ CPUs that combine the speediness of the Coffee Lake CPU and the Optane caching.

 

While this isn't some new groundbreaking platform like Ryzen II is, it should help push Optane to more people.

 

For desktops, there are three SKUs available:

  • Intel Core i7+ 8700 (BO80684I78700)—$340
  • Intel Core i5+ 8500 (BO80684I58500)—$240
  • Intel Core i5+ 8400 (BO80684I58400)—$215

The price delta of around 30$ is quite negligible considering that a basic Optane chip costs around 40$, but it's better than nothing if you don't have it available.

 

Personally I think this is just a marketing trick, but I'd love to think what you guys have to say.

 

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https://www.anandtech.com/show/12644/intels-core-i5-core-i7-cpus-with-bundled-optane-ssds-hit-retail

 

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so you can literally choose between an 8700 + optane or 8700k

I'd go for the k variant... idk optane just really isn't worth it to me with an SSD boot drive that most people are using now anyway.

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Toss in a SSD and call it "Core I Plus"? Butwhy.GIF

Optane is nice but 16GB isn't enough for an OS drive, that isn't a bad bundle deal though it should be on the 8700K also.

 

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Optane cache still stupid

 

Just get a 120GB SSD and use half for caching with RST

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The fact it is not on the 8700k just seems like it's something where the 8700K sells fine on its own. They'd like to give someone that might normally only buy an i3 to have that little extra incentive to go up to an i5 of 'Oh hey I'll save money and get a faster computer too' 

 

So yeah, I think it's just a marketing thing. I doubt optane cache would have that much of a real-world impact anyway. 

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1 hour ago, Nicnac said:

looks like they made too much of that optane....

Well that happens when you make them uselessly small and try to sell them with a stupid niche of "Remember those spinning rust drives? We can make them faster! Because that's something people are still looking into in 2018 not that it hasn't been tried and failed for years now in the form of hybrid sshds!"

 

Seriously they should just give them away to schools: I'm sure students can put Linux on them and use as really tiny and really fast boot drives.

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4 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Well that happens when you make them uselessly small and try to sell them with a stupid niche of "Remember those spinning rust drives? We can make them faster! Because that's something people are still looking into in 2018 not that it hasn't been tried and failed for years now in the form of hybrid sshds!"

 

Seriously they should just give them away to schools: I'm sure students can put Linux on them and use as really tiny and really fast boot drives.

that would be cool!

But yea, as it stands these are a waste of flash storage which is already high in demand...

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Why does everyone keep saying ryzen 2 is groundbreaking? All it really is an upgrade to the original ryzens. Theres nothing revolutionary about ryzen 2

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1 hour ago, LoganTNZ said:

Why does everyone keep saying ryzen 2 is groundbreaking? All it really is an upgrade to the original ryzens. Theres nothing revolutionary about ryzen 2

Probably the confusion everyone keeps causing when people keep calling Ryzen+ and Ryzen 2 interchangeably.


Ryzen 2 is next year on 7 nm. Ryzen+ is the non-apu 2000 series processors being released this month.


Though, I pretty sure you meant to post this in the other thread and not this one.

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I would love to see them allow Optane to work on more than just the main drive, would really open up the market I'd think

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20 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

Well that happens when you make them uselessly small and try to sell them with a stupid niche of "Remember those spinning rust drives? We can make them faster! Because that's something people are still looking into in 2018 not that it hasn't been tried and failed for years now in the form of hybrid sshds!"

 

Seriously they should just give them away to schools: I'm sure students can put Linux on them and use as really tiny and really fast boot drives.

Every day I see PCPartPicker posts where people are planning on using a 2TB+ mechanical HDD as their main drive with some dink OS SSD. 

 

So there is a use case for these things.  My whole desktop is SSD based, but 1TB is not enough for anything but a  small game collection when you have games using close to 100GB a pop now.

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2 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Every day I see PCPartPicker posts where people are planning on using a 2TB+ mechanical HDD as their main drive with some dink OS SSD. 

 

So there is a use case for these things.  My whole desktop is SSD based, but 1TB is not enough for anything but a  small game collection when you have games using close to 100GB a pop now.

Yeah I see people make stupid choices everyday as well, you really think the predatory tactic of catering to the ignorant and uninformed pays out long term?

 

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11 hours ago, normpearii said:

Probably the confusion everyone keeps causing when people keep calling Ryzen+ and Ryzen 2 interchangeably.


Ryzen 2 is next year on 7 nm. Ryzen+ is the non-apu 2000 series processors being released this month.


Though, I pretty sure you meant to post this in the other thread and not this one.

Lol Zen+ is ryzen 2, Zen2 is ryzen 3.

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