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Re:Intel Skylake Review by cm3 on Thursday August 06, 2015 @07:37AM (#10015772)
I would say it's very sad that we have only 64GB. We should be allowed to install at least 128GB or 256GB in consumer grade mainboards. Similarly for a developer workstation one has to choose a Xeon to get more cores, but a smaller GPU and twice as many cpu cores in the non-Xeon line would be great because enthusiasts don't use the iGPU anyway. Developers don't need a fast GPU unless they really need one and then any iGPU is too little too slow so most chips should have more cores in place of bigger iGPUs. It's true that your office clerk workflow doesn't benefit from more cores due to legacy software, but software developer workflows benefit a lot when building code or running virtual machines or running (modern) concurrent applications. It's very very sad indeed that AMD is the only x86 vendor who puts more cores on consumer chips. Let's hope Zen will force a change.
Re:Intel Skylake Review by lagadu on Thursday August 06, 2015 @08:15AM (#10015901)
Well, they're described as being "enthusiast" chips but the core i7 line does have 6 and 8 core versions: the 5820/5930 and the 5960 respectively.
Re:Intel Skylake Review by RogerL on Thursday August 06, 2015 @11:18AM (#10017035)
We are not consumers. Intel would be foolish to optimize their consumer chips for us. If you want a workstation class machine you buy a Xeon. Adding memory channels is not free, and with 4 channels you get 64GB given current DDR4 capacity.
Re:Intel Skylake Review by nharada on Thursday August 06, 2015 @08:51AM (#10016027)
Don't people use GPUs all the time now because of Netflix and movie streaming? My old laptop's GPU would always kick in when I played something in 1080p.
Re:Intel Skylake Review by soylentcola on Thursday August 06, 2015 @12:08PM (#10017436)
I believe that streaming video can make use of GPU acceleration for decoding (to take some load off of your CPU).