4792

Skylake had a lot of problems. Technical ones.

Remember when Satya got into some trouble when he appeared to blame Skylake for the Surface’s problems?

But an Intel engineer says Skylake’s problems were the breaking point for Apple

4793

Yeah, I’m on the 6700k and am really happy with it, if it weren’t for my mobo I’d be keeping it. Although it has to be said that even then, desktop CPU development had really slowed without competition from AMD.

Now I get the AMD competition I always wanted but Intel can’t stop fumbling the football. Hopefully they can get things sorted out.

4794

I’ve been running a 6700K for 5 years now and it’s perfectly fine, other than the spectre security holes of course. Perhaps Apple’s QA was referring to shipping defective chips or something. Apple commissions special CPUs for their specific needs, typically lower-end CPUs with higher-end Iris IGPUs.

4795

I did the research and ran the math. For my buck, for my application, the best bang was an Intel I9600K. So to me at least, they had not quite been roflstomped by AMD for now.

Three more weeks eh. Got four numbers lined up. This gen, I’m splurgin’.

4796

My 7700k has been great (Kabe Lake aka Skylake 14nm+) , but I am pretty sure any new GFX card will cause it to be the bottleneck in my current system.

Gotta see specs, but I sorta want to go the Ti route this time.

@stusser are you getting a new CPU and GPU this year?

4797

GPU yes for sure, probably not a new CPU.

4798

So the same idiocy that is killing Boeing.

4799

Take this all with a grain (or more) of salt:

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4800

Yeah I posted a similar leak yesterday.

The brain is all like, wtf do I want with 24GB of vRAM, also the brain: DO WANT!

4801

Enjoy your 350W GPU :/

4802

I, for one, will not be satisfied until video cards require himem.sys and emm386.exe to use all their RAM.

4803

I bumped into 8GB limitations with a combo of GTX 1080 + 3440x1440 + High res texture pack for MHW on PC. Will be looking to upgrade beyond that, but will need to figure out how much I realistically might need. I’m willing to splurge a little this cycle since I skipped the entire 20-series generation but all bets are off until I know how insane Nvidia is going to be with their pricing this time around!

4804

I can see a theory where they boost the memory size to create perceived value and justify keeping prices high, especially if they’re supply limited anyway.

But who sees VRAM as that desirable? Aside from @lordkosc

4805

High VRAM is probably to try and sell TIs to machine learning devs

4806

No way. They want them to buy quadros.

4807

End of september (soft launch?) is earlier than I would have expected

4808

They might well be ready to ship in limited quantities on September 9th when they announce, nobody knows yet. I would say early October is more likely though, even for reference cards, and November for AIBs.

4809

Well, let’s hope for September, because you guys just convinced me to sell my 2080 TI (got $1K). It’s back to the GTX 1080 just before MS Flight Sim ships! (And my emergency backup GeForce 660 in my productivity PC! That’s gonna be interesting – it’s specs claim it can drive my 3840x1440 UWS, but we’ll see how it performs.)

Watch. They’ll find some kind of fatal chip bug now and delay it to 2021. :)

Gonna have to camp on that preorder button. I remember it took me weeks to find a 2080 TI.

4810

If I were to sell by video card without a replacement, do most motherboards have the ability to power basic desktop graphics? I know mine has a HDMI port in that I’ve never used…

4811

Maybe we should hold out for 4K @ 60fps with RTX on for $500