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    Re: Worth Waiting for Skylake?

    Quote Originally Posted by John P. Myers View Post
    What DrPop said. AMD simply doesn't come very close to performing computations as fast and efficiently as Intel...BOINC or not.

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    Re: Worth Waiting for Skylake?

    Some underground engineering sample testing seems to be showing Skylake has a 19.2% performance improvement over Haswell, clock for clock.


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    Re: Worth Waiting for Skylake?

    Quote Originally Posted by John P. Myers View Post
    Some underground engineering sample testing seems to be showing Skylake has a 19.2% performance improvement over Haswell, clock for clock.
    And energy consumption?

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    Re: Worth Waiting for Skylake?

    Quote Originally Posted by John P. Myers View Post
    Some underground engineering sample testing seems to be showing Skylake has a 19.2% performance improvement over Haswell, clock for clock.
    NICE! It would be great if they are working on some real gains for the desktop area again!

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    Re: Worth Waiting for Skylake?

    Quote Originally Posted by DrPop View Post
    NICE! It would be great if they are working on some real gains for the desktop area again!
    I agree, it'd be nice if they could increase my desk top's size with out taking up more space. Time and space bending desk anyone?
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    Re: Worth Waiting for Skylake?

    Yeah, I just meant that all their focus (rightly so for business reasons) has been on the mobile sector for several years now. We haven't seen any *real* gains since i7 Sandy Bridge territory was covered. They started work on S.B. in 2005, demoed it in 2009, and released i7 S.B. in early 2011.

    Be nice if we could see another jump like that, being 4 years later.

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    Re: Worth Waiting for Skylake?

    Quote Originally Posted by DrPop View Post
    Yeah, I just meant that all their focus (rightly so for business reasons) has been on the mobile sector for several years now. We haven't seen any *real* gains since i7 Sandy Bridge territory was covered. They started work on S.B. in 2005, demoed it in 2009, and released i7 S.B. in early 2011.

    Be nice if we could see another jump like that, being 4 years later.
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    Re: Worth Waiting for Skylake?

    Question, I'm looking at a 5960x build with;
    Swiftech H240-X CPU Liquid Cooling kit
    ASUS X99-Deluxe/USB3.1
    G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 series 16GB memory.
    This will replace my AMD x6 machine. Crunching and gaming is the key. I know it's pricey so is there any reason to wait for Skylake?



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    Re: Worth Waiting for Skylake?

    No. 5960X is better than Skylake, but Skylake will be cheaper. And it may be 6 months before any Skylake availability.


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    Re: Worth Waiting for Skylake?

    Skylake will still have just 4 cores / 8 threads, right? Even with almost 20% improvement - and we'll have to see how much of that actually materializes - no way it could beat a 5960X with double the cores. What a whomping CPU!

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