CPU Rumors

[MindCrime]

I wonder how much of a hand "Optane" will have in Intel's 7th gen CPU prices. Maybe none, and the Optane drive will pick up the difference. I'm reading speculation that it'll be around $2/gb, and this is suppose to be your primary disk?

[John P. Myers]

I wonder how much of a hand "Optane" will have in Intel's 7th gen CPU prices. Maybe none, and the Optane drive will pick up the difference. I'm reading speculation that it'll be around $2/gb, and this is suppose to be your primary disk?

Intel pretty much requires you to have a regular HDD along with Optane, though they don't use those exact words. They promise SSD-like performance if you do that, even though you've been able to buy hybrid HDD/SSDs from WD and Seagate for years now. Also with the price of SSDs dropping quite a bit lately, affording good capacity isn't so much of an issue anymore.

And it's not just a 7th Gen CPU, you also must have the 200 series chipset and a free m.2 slot for this ridiculousness.