Info on Skylake-X

[lawrencep93]

EDIT:
I screwed up I mean skylake-X and the platform x299, ignore a lot of info below

 

 

Does anyone have any info on Skylake-EP

 

Is it finally an platform for my to upgrade my i7-4930k with out a huge expense?

 

What do you guys expect to see on the motherboards and so on.

 

I hope for a nice 6 or 8 core CPU at a similar price point to the current 6830k, maybe called the 7930k/7830k running 6 core base 4Ghz and boost 4.5ghz.
More PCIe lanes
Boards standard with 2x m.2 slots that auto raid 0

Faster UEFI boards for faster boot times

Same memory but more stable high speed DDR4

Better Cooling with the larger die size

 

6 channel memory will be weird though I used to use x58 tripple channel, so maybe 48 or 96GB of ram. I would just opt for 48GB my video editing doesn't seem to use that much at the moment, I actually don't know of many prosumer applications using more than 64GB ram at home.

 

[Imakuni]

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[Droidbot]

24 minutes ago, lawrencep93 said:

Boards standard with 2x m.2 slots that auto raid 0

hah! no. Raid0 for SSDs is super unsafe for any critical data

25 minutes ago, lawrencep93 said:

Faster UEFI boards for faster boot times

Remember - EP and EX architecture is workstation/server, so this won't happen. There needs to be support for literally EVERYTHING on the UEFI. 

26 minutes ago, lawrencep93 said:

Same memory but more stable high speed DDR4

Better Cooling with the larger die size

Depends - DDR4 is stable now but X-series have always had issues with higher end memory. I'd say it'll stay the same - the point of this architecture is NOT consumers, it's mostly for Xeon and Xeon-WS (big business)

Die size I hope they do something with, that's a bloody good point. 

 

IMHO Keep X79. Drop in a Xeon E5-2670v1 or v2, and you're golden. They're like $70 used on eBay for 8 physical cores and ECC support. 

 

[lawrencep93]

Just now, Droidbot said:

hah! no. Raid0 for SSDs is super unsafe for any critical data

Remember - EP and EX architecture is workstation/server, so this won't happen. There needs to be support for literally EVERYTHING on the UEFI. 

Depends - DDR4 is stable now but X-series have always had issues with higher end memory. I'd say it'll stay the same - the point of this architecture is NOT consumers, it's mostly for Xeon and Xeon-WS (big business)

Die size I hope they do something with, that's a bloody good point. 

 

IMHO Keep X79. Drop in a Xeon E5-2670v1 or v2, and you're golden. They're like $70 used on eBay for 8 physical cores and ECC support. 

 

I was thinking raid 0 for a boot drive where you would store the OS, games, working files, everything else would be backed up on a RAID 5 or NAS with super essential stuff on cloud as well.

 

So I got the point of the architecture wrong thinking it was an upgrade to the current x99 platform, whoops got to keen on hoping for some new smash from intel and a new base I could have upgraded to

[Droidbot]

2 minutes ago, lawrencep93 said:

I was thinking raid 0 for a boot drive where you would store the OS, games, working files, everything else would be backed up on a RAID 5 or NAS with super essential stuff on cloud as well.

 

So I got the point of the architecture wrong thinking it was an upgrade to the current x99 platform, whoops got to keen on hoping for some new smash from intel and a new base I could have upgraded to

Well, from what we've heard it's an upgrade, but not much - been really, really silent. 

[AnonymousGuy]

There isn't going to be a 4Ghz 6 core Skylake-E part. 

 

2 4 core Kaby Lake X parts

6,8,10,12 core Skylake based X parts.

 

All on the 2066 socket that's inevitably going to be more expensive than Z270, all support 4 channel DDR4 except KBL-X.