Skylake Release and Decision Making

scottalanmiller

Intel doesn't actually "wow" anyone very often. Unless AMD is eating their lunch after kicking them in the shins, they really don't try very hard.

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller Sure seems that way!! Super disappointing.

creayt

The Xeon re-emerges victorious.

creayt

it hath arrived.

nadnerB

@creayt said:

it hath arrived.

OOOOH! Very interested to hear what you think of it

Nice to see you were clothed when taking the photo
That's a very large phone. What is that? A 6 Plus?

creayt

@nadnerB said:

OOOOH! Very interested to hear what you think of it

Nice to see you were clothed when taking the photo
That's a very large phone. What is that? A 6 Plus?

So far so good. Being able to run 3x 1440p screens, two in portrait, without a stutter and to connect them all to individual slots ( this card has 3 full sized display port jacks, and HDMI, and a dual-link DVI ) is magical and helps Windows hold onto my config. W/ the daisy chaining method I'd find it'd forget them and cost me configuration time a lot.

Currently looking for some cutting edge visual games to test out its gaming prowess.

Took that picture w/ an iPad actually haha. My iPhone 6 Plus's camera is broken.

creayt

@nadnerB

I will say, first impression is that it was noticeably quieter than the AMD it replaced, even completely silent under load while gaming, streaming a video from DishAnywhere, running a bunch of serverware in the background, an IDE, a text editor, Slack, IM, Spotify, and about 20 browser tabs.

I'm pretty impressed w/ the Xeon + GTX 970 setup so far.

creayt

@creayt said:

I'm pretty impressed w/ the Xeon + GTX 970 setup so far.

I'm guessing Dota 2, even at 3620x2036, just isn't very intensive though. I'll hold back my real judgment until I find something to tax it. Dota 2 is interesting though because it lets me multi-task pretty hard while playing. There are a lot of moments of auto-pilot and if you die you can get a lot of other stuff done while waiting to respawn etc.

Is it weird that my CPU temp hovers at around 27-32C and my GPU sits at around 64C? Is that a red flag or to be expected w/ my monitor setup?

creayt

While running the EVGA Precision built-in benchmark the CPU temperature climbed to the highest I've ever seen it: 38C, while the GPU got up to 74C.

creayt

Skylake is available for purchase now ( with a release date of Friday after this ), though it seems to be only i5s ( at NewEgg at least ) and it seems they're pretending the procs themselves are sold out in order to force people into combos.

http://promotions.newegg.com/intel/15-3811/index.html?icid=324906