Skylake reportedly to be unveiled at Gamescom in August

[Bouzoo]

DigiTimes reports that Intel is gonna unveil some Skylake enthusiast CPU models at Gamescon in August this year. Other chipsets and CPUs are coming later, as well as notebook CPUs.

CPUs that are gonna reportedly gonna be shown are:

• i7-6700K
• i5-6600K

After that, Intel is supposed to show between August 30-September 5:

• i7-6700
• i7-6700T
• i5-6600
• i5-6500
• i5-6400
• i5-6600T
• i5-6500T
• i5-6400T

Also most MBO manufactureres should start announcing their MBOs for Skylake on August 5th.

Intel's 14nm Skylake processors and 100-series chipsets for desktops are expected to be unveiled in early August at Gamescom in Germany. Intel will announce the Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K as well as Z170 chipsets initially targeting gamers, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Intel will then unveil its Skylake-based Core i7-6700/6700T, Core i5-6600, 6500, 6400, 6600T, 6500T and 6400T, and H170 and B150 chipsets between August 30-September 5.

The H110 chipsets are scheduled to be released between September 27-October 3, the Q170 and Q150 chipsets are set for October or November.

Most motherboard players will start announcing their 100-series-based motherboards on August 5. The Skylake platform adopts an LGA1151 socket design and supports DDR4 memory.

Notebook versions of Skylake processors are planned for the fourth quarter of 2015 and Intel's notebook reference design for the Skylake platform includes support for USB 3.1 Type-C ports.

 

If this is true, you might wanna wait a bit more to upgrade.

 

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[M156]

Hopefully mobile quad core chips follow soon after and not 6 months down the line. 

[minibois]

\ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) / Hype train!! \ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) /

 

It says it support DDR4, but does it support DDR3 too?

And I hope Skylake will make older CPU's cheaper

[Bouzoo]

Hopefully mobile quad core chips follow soon after and not 6 months down the line. 

They say Q4 2015, so we shouldn't wait that long if this is true,

[Interfectorem]

\ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) / Hype train!! \ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) /

 

It says it support DDR4, but does it support DDR3 too?

And I hope Skylake will make older CPU's cheaper

Skylake will support both DDR3 and DDR4, it's up to the motherboard manufacturer to decide what generation of RAM to use.

[zanduh]

I just want the surface pro 4 to have skylake but the timing doesn't work out it seems

[C0LL0SS0S]

Skylake will support both DDR3 and DDR4, it's up to the motherboard manufacturer to decide what generation of RAM to use.

AFAIK there are even boards that support both, DDR3 and DDR4, but I don't know which OEM made it I think it was BIOSTAR

[Sam Z Man]

I saw your profile picture beside the title on the home page and fucking lost it.

[qwertywarrior]

im really happy Intel made the smart decision to go with 20 lanes on skylake

people who sli and use an m.2 at x4 get issues

[Interfectorem]

AFAIK there are even boards that support both, DDR3 and DDR4, but I don't know which OEM made it I think it was BIOSTAR

Interesting.

[Sam Z Man]

im really happy Intel made the smart decision to go with 20 lanes on skylake

people who sli and use an m.2 at x4 get issues

Yea that was my one complaint about haswell they put m.2 slots on the motherboards, but never had the support for using it with SLI.

[That Norwegian Guy]

im really happy Intel made the smart decision to go with 20 lanes on skylake

people who sli and use an m.2 at x4 get issues

 

They're still *insert expletive here* for not making it 24 lanes so people could either tri-fire/ tri-SLi or use two cards in SLi plus two M.2s in RAID 0.

 

But I guess they fear the anti-trust on the horizon if AMD can't catch up. In addition to wanting more money for less effort, of course.

[Sam Z Man]

They're still *insert expletive here* for not making it 24 lanes so people could either tri-fire/ tri-SLi or use two cards in SLi plus two M.2s in RAID 0.

 

But I guess they fear the anti-trust on the horizon if AMD can't catch up. In addition to wanting more money for less effort, of course.

Raid 0 some m.2 hyperX ssds for that 2gb/s reads, oh baby.

[Imakuni]

Skylake will support both DDR3 and DDR4, it's up to the motherboard manufacturer to decide what generation of RAM to use.

AFAIK there are even boards that support both, DDR3 and DDR4, but I don't know which OEM made it I think it was BIOSTAR

All Z170 mobo leaks we've seen so far only support DDR4. Sure, we still know very little about the available models, but still...

 

And by mobo, I mean mobo from a REAL manufacturer, like Gigabyte, MSI, Asus or EVGA.

[ApolloEleven]

They're still *insert expletive here* for not making it 24 lanes so people could either tri-fire/ tri-SLi or use two cards in SLi plus two M.2s in RAID 0.

 

But I guess they fear the anti-trust on the horizon if AMD can't catch up. In addition to wanting more money for less effort, of course.

Why would someone on a mainstream board do that? They should be looking at X99 if that's the case.

[ApolloEleven]

Skylake will support both DDR3 and DDR4, it's up to the motherboard manufacturer to decide what generation of RAM to use.

I thought it was DDR3L not the norm DDR3?

EDIT: Nevermind I didn't read that the manufacturer will decide which RAM to use.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Why would someone on a mainstream board do that? They should be looking at X99 if that's the case.

 

X99 doesn't have support for M.2 RAID. And no, I do not agree at all. There's no reason to make as few PCIe lanes as 24 a "premium" feature.

 

Don't be a corporate apologist.

[ApolloEleven]

Don't be a corporate apologist.

Um ok, how am I corporate apologist? I asked a question then you say that.

If you read my other post in other topics you'll know I am actually the opposite.

 

Just look at your profile title "BitFenix fanboy", you are more likely to be a corporate apologist than I'm ever be.

[PlayModeOn]

X99 doesn't have support for M.2 RAID. And no, I do not agree at all. There's no reason to make as few PCIe lanes as 24 a "premium" feature.

 

Don't be a corporate apologist.

How did you come with that conclusion?

[Sam Z Man]

X99 doesn't have support for M.2 RAID. And no, I do not agree at all. There's no reason to make as few PCIe lanes as 24 a "premium" feature.

 

Don't be a corporate apologist.

When you have triple graphics cards you kind of need the extreme platforms for the extra CPU power, you can't run triple Titans or Fury's on a single 1150cpu without boging your gpu's down in some situations. When you're going that crazy it makes sense to jump to X99.

[PortentousLad]

I don't get it has anyone bought 5000 series chips yet?

AMD not releasing anything for years and Intel every two month?

What is this a joke?

[Sam Z Man]

I don't get it has anyone bought 5000 series chips yet?

AMD not releasing anything for years and Intel every two month?

What is this a joke?

They focused on there apu game, and hopefully Zen will land them back on track.

[C0LL0SS0S]

All Z170 mobo leaks we've seen so far only support DDR4. Sure, we still know very little about the available models, but still...

 

And by mobo, I mean mobo from a REAL manufacturer, like Gigabyte, MSI, Asus or EVGA.

I am pretty sure that the board was to be sold, just can't find it now, but it had 2DDR3 and 2 DDR4 slots afaik

[spartaman64]

people were bashing on amd for releasing product during E3 because E3 is about gaming. where is the bashing on intel for releasing during GAMEScom

[Bouzoo]

people were bashing on amd for releasing product during E3 because E3 is about gaming. where is the bashing on intel for releasing during GAMEScom

I honestly can't remember people bashing on AMD because of that.