Intel is planning to release a 2 core i3 for x299, i3-7360X

[Sauron]

26 minutes ago, WereCat said:

I was poking fun at Intel releasing Atoms for X299 when they announced i5 but now it is even closer to the reality.

BTW...

112W TDP i3 ? It better clocks to 6GHz on air.

It's probably just due to the larger packaging

[Fardin]

if that is true, call exorcist  i am sure intel heads are possessed by some idiot spirit  

[Spenser1337]

5 minutes ago, Ekst4zy said:

Well... yes, but I didn't want to include Ryzen on purpose. Just comparing Intel's stack of products. I "bought" Ryzen 1600 for two of my not techie friends, so it's not that I don't consider it a great deal  

I was just adding to your argument.

[RadiatingLight]

I refuse to believe that this is real.

no way.

 

an i5 7640X is so power un-hungry, that there's no way that lowering to a dual core can give more stable power delivery.

[goodtofufriday]

37 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Eventually they'll released a dedicated placeholder chip that allows the motherboard to load its bios to see if everything works and nothing else.

Thatd honestly be dope imo

[vanished]

omg what are they thinking!?  So now we have up to 6 cores on a mainstream and as low as dual cores on the enthusiast platform that costs a lot more... gg

[kiska3]

So adding more to an already confusing product stack.

 

GG Intel

[Notional]

12 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

omg what are they thinking!?  So now we have up to 6 cores on a mainstream and as low as dual cores on the enthusiast platform that costs a lot more... gg

Yeah but at least you get to not be able to use half the ram slots, and almost none of the PCI express slots. You know, for that authentic enthusiast experience.

[PlayStation 2]

This is even more pointless than the Bristol Ridge Athlons on AM4. At least those can serve a purpose.

[Potato*Salad]

Waiting for 1 core Pentium on X299, always needed to try and clock 1 core to 8 ghz.

[SeraphicWings]

i3 on X299

 

Someone at Intel is smoking waaaayy too much

[Taja]

Bah, and im here hoping for a Celeron. Damn intel, step up!

 

 

[Flavio hc 16]

this chip HAS to have only 2 working dimm slot, 12 pcie lanes and something retarded like that, if not, i'm disappointed

[handymanshandle]

26 minutes ago, Potato*Salad said:

Waiting for 1 core Pentium on X299, always needed to try and clock 1 core to 8 ghz.

Nah fam a 1 core pentium on X299 better OC to 10GHz

[handymanshandle]

18 minutes ago, Taja said:

Bah, and im here hoping for a Celeron. Damn intel, step up!

 

 

Screw Celeron I want a 1 core Intel Atom

[handymanshandle]

29 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

This is even more pointless than the Bristol Ridge Athlons on AM4. At least those can serve a purpose.

If I'm not mistaken isnt the X4 950 basically the previous generation Athlon but made for the AM4 socket?

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, wcreek said:

If I'm not mistaken isnt the X4 950 basically the previous generation Athlon but made for the AM4 socket?

Basically.

[handymanshandle]

Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

Basically.

Looking at the benchmarks really it swings close to a R3 1200 so from a value perspective the X4 is a lot better.

 

Which I presume X4 860K is probably close to that too

[Nowak]

And so X299 continues the tradition of not making any sense.

[handymanshandle]

@Dan Castellaneta When you remember that the FX 4100 is on a 32nm process. 

Then again Intel was on 32nm at around that time too but shortly after that Intel went down to 22nm and I think the smallest Bulldozer got to was like 28nm? Still wow

[vanished]

[ZestyJalapeno]

Is it only 4 months a year at Intel??? Cos they be thinking it's April Fools already

[Windows7ge]

If it's cheap enough I could see it being useful to enthusiasts as a backup chip. Or when you're troubleshooting and you want to test if the issue is your processor but you didn't buy a second $600+ chip.

 

Although it seems like a bit of a scheme by Intel to get people to move up to X299. Most likely the end goal being more money for them.

[Taf the Ghost]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

If it's cheap enough I could see it being useful to enthusiasts as a backup chip. Or when you're troubleshooting and you want to test if the issue is your processor but you didn't buy a second $600+ chip.

 

Although it seems like a bit of a scheme by Intel to get people to move up to X299. Most likely the end goal being more money for them.

At "free", I'm not sure it's a good deal.

[Windows7ge]

1 minute ago, Taf the Ghost said:

At "free", I'm not sure it's a good deal.

Free? If they're trying to distribute them for free it sounds like they're trying to get rid of a lot of the CPUs that didn't make the cut in terms of successful yield. Like any 4, 6, or 8 core variant that didn't meet their standard.