Anyone have the locked skylake cpus?

[FinestRyeBread]

If so how are they compared to haswell locked?

[mosin40]

Umm, don't have one but Skylake locked cpus have unlocked BCLK

[JebKerman]

Skylake is a die shrink. There's nothing remarkable about the locked chips compared to Haswell. They're there to get you off the old (dead, in a way) platform.

[Lays]

Skylake is a die shrink. There's nothing remarkable about the locked chips compared to Haswell. They're there to get you off the old (dead, in a way) platform.

 

 

If they support BCLK tuning as well as their k series CPU's, they are actually a massive increase, because you'll be able to clock them nearly to as far as the unlocked chips.

200+ BCLK is quite easily achievable from the reviews I've seen, some people have gotten as high as 550 bclk on Ln2.

[JebKerman]

If they support BCLK tuning as well as their k series CPU's, they are actually a massive increase, because you'll be able to clock them nearly to as far as the unlocked chips.

oh yea...forgot about the change to BCLK OCing, wonder how far they can be taken.

[Lays]

oh yea...forgot about the change to BCLK OCing, wonder how far they can be taken.

 

 

If intel doesn't lock stuff down and they have base-speeds of like 3.6 ghz, probably 4+ will be easily achievable if you know what you're doing. 

[ybriK]

Comparable? I'm guessing performance wise? It depends on the game/application. I'd personally go for a haswell chip though. For GTA V a skylake chip seems worth the price, well depends where you live.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-6600-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4690/m34399vs2311

 

 

 

[KemoKa]

Skylake is a die shrink. There's nothing remarkable about the locked chips compared to Haswell. They're there to get you off the old (dead, in a way) platform.

Broadwell was the die shrink. Skylake did some other things like moving the FIVR back onto the motherboard like in the days of old. And there are rumours that the processors support Inverse Hyperthreading, where the extra thread of each core can be dedicated to a single thread. That's awesome.

[Caeradwyn]

Broadwell was the die shrink. Skylake did some other things like moving the FIVR back onto the motherboard like in the days of old. And there are rumours that the processors support Inverse Hyperthreading, where the extra thread of each core can be dedicated to a single thread. That's awesome.

 

"Inverse Hyperthreading" would mean combining multiple PHYSICAL cores to perform a single threaded task. As in "turning a quad core into dual core" of sorts. Hyperthreading doesn't mean that there is a magical "two cores in one" doubling of cores. It's simply a more clever way of utilizing resources that are already there in the CPU. Hyperthreading doesn't mean "two cores working in parallell" it means that one single core can start working on a second thread before it's finished working on the first thread. The two threads will move through the pipeline one after the other, not side-by-side so to speak. So Hyperthreading =/= having two threads in each core. If you understood how superscalar CPU architecture worked, then you'd have no problem understanding how Hyperthreading works as well.

[KemoKa]

"Inverse Hyperthreading" would mean combining multiple PHYSICAL cores to perform a single threaded task. As in "turning a quad core into dual core" of sorts. Hyperthreading doesn't mean that there is a magical "two cores in one" doubling of cores. It's simply a more clever way of utilizing resources that are already there in the CPU. Hyperthreading doesn't mean "two cores working in parallell" it means that one single core can start working on a second thread before it's finished working on the first thread. The two threads will move through the pipeline one after the other, not side-by-side so to speak. So Hyperthreading =/= having two threads in each core. If you understood how superscalar CPU architecture worked, then you'd have no problem understanding how Hyperthreading works as well.

I understand how hyperthreading works, thanks very much. I was simply misinformed by the article I read on the concept of inverse hyperthreading. I had heard that it was the dedication of the hyperthreading resources of each core to a pooled thread, so to speak. Perhaps I misheard. I had suspected from the beginning that it would use physical cores, but I hadn't read up on it at the time, so I held my tongue. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[FinestRyeBread]

I understand how hyperthreading works, thanks very much. I was simply misinformed by the article I read on the concept of inverse hyperthreading. I had heard that it was the dedication of the hyperthreading resources of each core to a pooled thread, so to speak. Perhaps I misheard. I had suspected from the beginning that it would use physical cores, but I hadn't read up on it at the time, so I held my tongue. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

so it's worth getting a non K Skylake over locked haswell