Leading German tech news c’t/heise tested Intels new platform and it is a complete fuckup: >Core-X series also has 4 core cpus in the range with intentional limited lanes. All mainboards for the Core-X platform support the 4 cores. This leads to bottlenecking because the lane distribution for the pci-e slots and M2 slots. If you use a 4c Core-X cpu you can only use the pci-e with 8x lane connection. Same goes for the M2 slots: because of the low lane count of 4c Core-X cpus the M2 is connected to the chipset and not directly to the cpu resulting in more bottlenecking. Only 300$+ mainboards did not have this issue and connected the M2 directly.
>Mainboards run the cpus completely out of their thermal spec when in boost mode. They measured a 140W tdp cpu running at 290(!)W. This leads to hard to spot losses in performance because of overheat clock skipping although the taskmanager would show high clocks/utilization. This issue is suspected because of the two-month early launch and therefor unfinished firmware development. Their test PSU failed because of this although it should have been well in spec.
link a fucking english post, most of us don't speak nazi
Jeremiah Taylor
I'm sorry they only have the german podcast yet. This story will be featured in the next c't print magazine 17/2017.
Asher Stewart
PLEASE NO
Lucas Ramirez
>290W How much over spec did the RX480 go initially?
Caleb Adams
God please, AMD just spin out and kill RTG already, let Fucktel buy them and merge with nVidia like you fucking supposed to.
Intel + RTG, I hope you have a fucking nuclear reactor handy.
Nathan Nelson
Stopped reading there. Core-X is DOA. Intel is eternally BTFO. Why would anyone buy a 4 core cpu ever again?
Hudson Young
about 5-12w over spec on the pcie slot. Absolutely devastating for the 6million motherboards it killed.
Jack Thomas
got up to 95w is some cases, that's 20w over spec.
Not that it really matters as it's been fixed now, and I doubt it actually done any damage for the short time it was available.
Adam Nguyen
remember the 6 million
David Bennett
Is this about the 12+ cores? If not, this is old news.
Leo Johnson
It affects any cpu of the platform because all MoBos have to support the 4c cpus and have therfor messed up lane arrangements like running the M2 over the chipset to the cpu. If you want to use a top range Core-X cpu without bottlenecks you have to buy an absolute top range mainboard.
Daniel Howard
I think a grand total of 4 boards world wide shit themselves from it.
Chances are all of them were sub 50$ boards, probably Biostar too.
Chase Johnson
WTF would anyone buy a new 4 core processor? Unless the new shit is using 1/2 the wattage as the shit circa 2014, wtf is the point? I have a 4core/8thread Intel proc sitting right next to me that I built 3-4 years ago. They're actually selling this shit to people in 2017 as new? da fuq. > If you use a 4c Core-X cpu you can only use the pci-e with 8x lane connection > M2 is connected to the chipset
LMFAO !!!! > mfw my 2014 4/8 intel CPU likely has better performance
James Jackson
Pretty much every review of X299 and X399 points this out, though.
>With Threadripper, you can run two graphics cards at X16 PCIe speeds, two at X8, and still have enough lanes left over for three X4 NVMe SSDs connected directly to the CPU. Intel's i9-series offers a mere 44 PCIe lanes on the CPU by comparison, but does make up the difference with a further 24 lanes on the motherboard (they do, however, share a single X4 PCIe link to the CPU).
its fucked on all CPUs but only with the 10 core did the PSU shut down
Joseph Morales
Yeah, and the 12+ cores aren't even out yet. Literal housefire when?
Adrian Murphy
Actual source? I don't buy that a company worth 60$$$ billion $$$$ would let a product like this exist. I can imagine this from AMD/ARM/VIA etc, but Intel is above this. Fake until proven otherwise.
Jace Allen
So what. It will not show in 95% of reviews, because everyone always uses top parts, other than the one that is being benchmarked(which is the only variance). And if it's not in reviews and memed everywhere it may as well be unknown to the vast majority of buyers.
I've always wondered why almost nobody benchmarks with midrange components - especially motherboards unless it's the motherboard that is benchmarked but nobody cares about MB reviews apart from low percentile of enthusiasts.
Caleb Lee
>hmm, how do i jew people into buying new, expensive mobos?
You're now remembered rx480 killing pcie and kill itself.
Carter Adams
Retard.
Jackson Sullivan
Learn English before you start shilling, you've made it too obvious you're a broke 3rd world shitter getting paid 0.1 shekels per shitpost.
Luke Jackson
Step up your English, Joao.
Jaxon Gray
SOPA
Colton Ramirez
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Zachary Sanchez
Kek.
Intel will launch 3 fucking platforms this year. All of them have issues some way or another.
Intel is desperate.
Jaxson Peterson
Oh lol. Intels worst year so far.
They have nothing to compete with amd except for gta5 performance.
Carson Morales
>gta5 performance but why does it run so good on intel
Landon Brooks
It's a shoddy 2015 port of a last gen console game from 2013.
Henry Miller
MOAR COARS MOAR PLATFORMS
PLS BUY INTEL
Cameron Morales
>AMD adds more cores >BASED AMD, INTEL BTFO >Intel adds more cores >HAHAHA HOLY SHIT INTEL IS FUCKING PATHETIC HAHAHAHA
What did he mean by this?
Robert Reed
SOPA DE MACACO UMA DELICIA
Luke Thompson
GTA 5 was actually a fairly solid port as far as ports go. Infinitely better than the shitheap that was GTA 4 at least.
Joseph Wood
What's the matter user? I thought moar coars was just a meme.
Jacob Nguyen
GTA 5 is one of the best games in terms of optimization in recent years.
Nolan Diaz
I think you were trying to write Battlefield 1.
Cooper Thompson
That's not how you spell Doom.
Jackson Fisher
that's why I said "one of the best games", not "the best game". The best would probably be running on Vulkan
John Long
The Witcher 3 is also decent considering the graphics
Henry James
Only up to a point. Once you start turning the advanced settings and shadows on, it becomes a real hog. It's also poorly-threaded and relies on high single core performance.
Henry Turner
Holy shit, how can Intel ever recover?
Samuel Long
>tfw you realize that apple literally has the cash to buy 100%of intel common stock outright.
Lucas Sullivan
Doom is by far the best graphics engine I can remember. In Vulkan, I can run that shit at 4k/50fps ultra on a fucking 290x.
Same on my RX 480. And the graphics is great too. We need more games like that.
Joshua Reed
Is he comparing the Skylake-X CPUs to upcoming Coffee Lake? If so, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense seeing as Coffee Lake won't have the mesh or cache changes that hobble Skylake-X's gaming performance.
Luke Murphy
>What's the matter user? I thought moar coars was just a meme. It was, until Ryzen. Moar cores done right.
Jackson Mitchell
what the fuck, intel? doing something wrong once is sad but kinds understandable, but twice is just dumb. i thought jews were supposed to be good with money
