Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby Lake Refresh

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Post by satai » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 7:23 AM UTC

Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby Lake Refresh
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Post by Aardwolf » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:08 AM UTC

How about some consumer desktop ones with ECC RAM support?

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Post by sundvor » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:09 AM UTC

Oooh moving to a baseline of 4 cores; this means we'll see quad core Lenovo X1 Carbons / Ultrabooks soon. :)

I for one am excited.

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Post by mamon » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:15 AM UTC

Aardwolf wrote: post #2

How about some consumer desktop ones with ECC RAM support?

Never gonna happen. ECC is "pro" feature for Intel, reserved for Xeons only. They have to justify high price of Xeons somehow.

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Post by jpalomaki » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:21 AM UTC

Aardwolf wrote: post #2

How about some consumer desktop ones with ECC RAM support?

What's the price difference between consumer (no ECC) and workstation (ECC support) (mobo+cpu+memory)?

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:22 AM UTC

mamon wrote: post #4

Aardwolf wrote: post #2

How about some consumer desktop ones with ECC RAM support?

Never gonna happen. ECC is "pro" feature for Intel, reserved for Xeons only. They have to justify high price of Xeons somehow.

Even AMD think of it as such. Ryzen doesn't have it disabled on the desktop, but AMD haven't validated it either.

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Post by agumonkey » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:25 AM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #6

mamon wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never gonna happen. ECC is "pro" feature for Intel, reserved for Xeons only. They have to justify high price of Xeons somehow.

Even AMD think of it as such. Ryzen doesn't have it disabled on the desktop, but AMD haven't validated it either.

Didn't AMD employees confirm it a few times on the web already ?

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Post by throwaway613834 » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:28 AM UTC

sundvor wrote: post #3

Oooh moving to a baseline of 4 cores; this means we'll see quad core Lenovo X1 Carbons / Ultrabooks soon. :) I for one am excited.

Do you happen to have any idea how long we'll have to wait for that? Might they be out in a month, or might it take a few more?

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Post by throwaway613834 » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:30 AM UTC

I remember seeing claims of 15-30% improved single-threaded performance. Does anyone know how legitimately I should take these? They sound way too good to be true...

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Post by KitDuncan » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:33 AM UTC

sundvor wrote: post #3

Oooh moving to a baseline of 4 cores; this means we'll see quad core Lenovo X1 Carbons / Ultrabooks soon. :) I for one am excited.

I am really looking forward to see how next generation Intel Ultrabooks compare to the upcoming Ryzen APU laptops.