Will Skylake-X support Optane?

[Metalshark]

Will Optane support be backported to Skylake-X or is it only supported on Kaby Lake(-X) and beyond?

 

Am not looking at Optane for caching, speed, large capacity, etc

[rn8686]

I believe so, as part of the chipset (Not that Optane is very useful anyway). 

[mariushm]

Yeah, my answer would be .. who cares?

 

If you have money for motherboard and skylake x, you wouldn't spend 50$ for a 16-32 GB octane drive as cache to a mechanical drive, you'd just buy a SSD drive on m.2 or sata.

 

[Metalshark]

24 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Yeah, my answer would be .. who cares?

 

If you have money for motherboard and skylake x, you wouldn't spend 50$ for a 16-32 GB octane drive as cache to a mechanical drive, you'd just buy a SSD drive on m.2 or sata.

 

Yeah - am not concerned about current Optane for speed - am more concerned about doing development with one memory tech instead of two (stateful applications). When you are loading large datasets into memory, performing batch operations then dumping to disk again and again it's desirable to keep the data set in memory - even between restarts - especially if you're getting fast enough speeds on the cheap without needing a battery backed RAM drive.

[Metalshark]

19 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

I believe so, as part of the chipset (Not that Optane is very useful anyway). 

All the reports I read seem to suggest its CPU limited, not chipset limited (but genuinely don't know):

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/230860/intel-launches-site-detailing-optane-requirements-skylake-users-need-not-apply

[rn8686]

Just now, Metalshark said:

All the reports I read seem to suggest its CPU limited, not chipset limited (but genuinely don't know):

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/230860/intel-launches-site-detailing-optane-requirements-skylake-users-need-not-apply

This was for their consumer platform (1151), my understanding is that it works fine with X299. 

[Metalshark]

Just now, rn8686 said:

This was for their consumer platform (1151), my understanding is that it works fine with X299. 

Thanks!

[Going_AFK]

Yes intel is basically branding everything intel for compatibly but check when you get a new x299 board for specs