What is your opinion about the intel -x series processors?

[Noirgheos]

1 hour ago, Princess Cadence said:

I do buy the idea that originally Intel only planned going up to 12c/24t and when they saw Threadripper incoming they were forced to add up to 18c/36t on the mix to remain in front of AMD, in other words competition has saved the day.

 

I am very excited about Intel finally quitting the lazyness though I'm still not picking up any of these HEDT cpu's the 1800x is still more than enough for multi-threaded applications and the i7 7700 is going to suffice me until the CPUs I DO want to purchase which should be the mainstream Canon Lake 10nm 6c/12t i7, on latest IPC and great base clocks that will be the true gaming king.

From what we know of Coffee Lake so far, its not posed to be that much better than Sky/Kaby in terms of IPC. They claimed 30% over a 3.5GHz 2c/4t Kaby Lake chip. Not much to beat... I'm probably just going to wait for the 7820X to go on sale, pick it up, and be done with it.

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, Noirgheos said:

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You realize I wrote Canon Lake not Coffee Lake don't you?

[Noirgheos]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

You realize I wrote Canon Lake not Coffee Lake don't you?

I did not realize that. Must have read too quickly.

[Skanky Sylveon]

10 hours ago, DocSwag said:

It was... for server parts. Skylake X probably would've maxed out at 12c if Threadripper hadn't come along, as evidenced by the 12+ core parts not having anything set besides name, core count, and price. When amd announced Threadripper Intel probably went into overdrive to have consumer parts that were better.

So the 18 core chip was in development as a Xeon, and then was converted into a Sky Lake x chip as a response to Threadripper?  

Makes sense.  I'm not sure how long it would take to do that, but a couple of months seems about right.

[Tellos]

@RadiatingLight I asked aobut gaming. I can get those or higher on a i7 and still do fine. Most games won't take advantage of more than 4 threads, those that will still tend to not go past 8 so far as we;ve seen. So again why do I wanna buy a pricy ass i9 for gmaing when it doeisnt help me? Spend the extra moeny on a better GPU and cooler. I think you are confusing the idea that extreme or X series chips are for consumers with normal incomes. They are not they are for indiepdant content creation and peopel who blow moeny cause they can. 75% of gamers probobly won't even consider them, another 10% may consider them but find betetr alternatives for less. 

[DocSwag]

12 hours ago, Cinnabar Sonar said:

So the 18 core chip was in development as a Xeon, and then was converted into a Sky Lake x chip as a response to Threadripper?  

Makes sense.  I'm not sure how long it would take to do that, but a couple of months seems about right.

Judging by the fact that they don't have clock speeds or TDP down for the SKUs based on the larger dies, most likely yes. 

 

Intel would've started about a month and a half ago when Threadripper was announced. Explains why they wouldn't have had time to finalize specifications.

 

As well, Paul's Hardware mentioned in his video about skylake x that when he and other press were briefed about skylake x a week ago the high core count CPUs weren't even included in the list.