Intel Releases Its First Skylake CPUs: Core i7 6700K & Core i5 6600K

[milkylainen]

Buy one today. Wait another two years for the Intel graphics drivers and stack to be mature enough to not crash every other minute!

[dibal]

Is H.265 hardware decoding supported?

[Gusar]

Is H.265 hardware decoding supported?

Yes, but only 8-bit. And unlike h264, a lot of hevc content will be 10-bit.

[DanL]

Is H.265 hardware decoding supported?

It seems to: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/i...h-generation/4

[Ericg]

Do you want 8 threads? Get the FX-8350 then, much cheaper and pretty good for rendering.

Performance of those threads matter, and I need every ounce I can get right now (thats reasonably affordable) unfortunately. Plus if I'm gonna upgrade I may as well -upgrade- and spring for DDR4 just so its one less headache down the line.

[quaz0r]

i recall reading somewhere that desktop skylake parts will not have avx512. is that the case? that makes skylake much less exciting if so

[Staffan]

I am still very happy with my Ivy Bridge rig. Is it just me or are computers so fast today that upgrading isn't really interesting? I used to be excited about how fast the new cpu was compared to my old computer but today I don't care anymore. If anything I'd upgrade my Radeon 7950 but it still performs decently so I'm not going to bother.

[Ericg]

i recall reading somewhere that desktop skylake parts will not have avx512. is that the case? that makes skylake much less exciting if so

Xeons will, i3/5/7's wont.

[BillBroadley]

Phoronix: Intel Releases Its First Skylake CPUs: Core i7 6700K & Core i5 6600K

This morning from Germany Intel announced the release of the first Skylake desktop processors alongside the new Intel Z170 chipset...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ylake-Launches

Great, another paper launch. I still can't buy the CPUs from the last broadwell paper launch. Has anyone actually seen the i5-5675c in stock? Where?

[Ericg]

Great, another paper launch. I still can't buy the CPUs from the last broadwell paper launch. Has anyone actually seen the i5-5675c in stock? Where?

Broadwell is gonna be scarce-- no one really cares about it. By the time it launched everyone was already talking about Skylake. And no, I haven't seen any standalone CPU's. I've seen a few ads come up saying they are in desktops from like iBuyPower, but not on their own.