Monday, April 24th 2017
Intel's Coffee Lake CPUs Likely Compatible With LGA 1151 Motherboards
Another interesting tidbit to have dropped from recent SiSotware leaks on Intel's upcoming Coffee Lake CPUs is that these could be backwards compatible with LGA 1151 motherboards that rock the 200 series chipset (and perhaps even the 100 series.) This last tidbit seems to be a bit of a stretch, even if it does end up being somewhat of a motherboard manufacturer's choice whether or not to issue updated, supporting BIOSes for the most recent Intel processors on their older boards. But why lose so many sales of motherboards equipped with Intel's upcoming, complimentary 300 series chipsets?
This piece of information comes courtesy of SiSoftware Sandra, again, where the 6-core Coffee Lake Intel chip, running @ 3.5 GHz, was tested in a Kaby Lake S platform - which features a 200 series chipset, no less. This means that there is a chance users will have a straight, drop-in upgrade path for Coffee Lake 6-core chips (seems Intel is no longer keeping all of those cores to themselves.) Doesn't that make the world seem a better place?
Source:
WCCFTech
This piece of information comes courtesy of SiSoftware Sandra, again, where the 6-core Coffee Lake Intel chip, running @ 3.5 GHz, was tested in a Kaby Lake S platform - which features a 200 series chipset, no less. This means that there is a chance users will have a straight, drop-in upgrade path for Coffee Lake 6-core chips (seems Intel is no longer keeping all of those cores to themselves.) Doesn't that make the world seem a better place?
18 Comments on Intel's Coffee Lake CPUs Likely Compatible With LGA 1151 Motherboards
Le: Does Intel own Cpu-world.com?
I assume these chips will be dual channel ram support only as they are for Intels small socket.
And then there are also another fun fact. With skylake E/X299 chipsæt intel will bring back Quad core for the big socket with Kaby Lake X after a few years with 6 cores as the smallest core count. Not since i7 3820/2012 have there been a quad core cpu for the big socket.
So to resume it up: small socket is gonna get 6 core for the first time ever and now Intel also reintroduce Quad-core again for the big socket since 2012. Am i the only one thinking something weird going on at intel :kookoo:
Well no matter what Intel really have to release something juicy as hell if i shall let go of my I7 980X. I mean this CPU has all i want from a cpu. 6 core/12 threads, 12 MB L3 cashe, great overclokker and no nasty build in GPU :D
In theory a 6 cores 12 Threads might just be a better upgrade in the long run, but games are barely using more than 4 cores. Most of the work in games supporting "more cores" are mainly doing it on 4 cores 80% of the time, and the remaining 2 cores are that less obvious 20%. I sort of see 6 cores being the trend for the next 2-3 years. In other words, IPC will always be more important than more cores... sadly, at least for gaming which is my main PC use.
6C / 6T Core exists, good. At 166$ I can think about it if Intel so decides.