Hardware First Broadwell-E consumer reviews are here!

[raystriker]

Intel's enthusiast Extreme lineup of consumer desktop processors has caught up to its 6th gen iteration: Broadwell-E. And now here's it's first review.

What a monster. And costly as fuck. The 6800K might be the only one a sane person would invest on.

Here's Anandtech's review.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10337...x-6900k-6850k-and-6800k-tested-up-to-10-cores

 

[mgrev]

holy fucking shit

 

[Originality]

I just read the bit-tech review on it. It's good for X99 owners, but it's not something I'm willing to invest in. I'll stick with my i7-4790K.

 

[Armadillo]

Meh. Other than the 10core (assuming you use stuff that will even use it fully), nothing here for x99 owners. Rest of the offerings are meh. More expensive than their haswell-e counterparts, for little to no gain and early results show worse overclocking

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-broadwell-e-6950x-6900k-6850k-6800k,4587-7.html

1.45V for 4.4 and silly heat dissipation.

"Air cooling is really only an option if you run the -6800K at its stock frequencies. A simple closed-loop liquid cooler is needed to step up to 4.0GHz. At 4.4GHz, there’s no way around a true open-loop setup. For example, a Corsair H100i that we tried was overwhelmed after just 12 minutes, after which the processor throttled due to core temperatures in excess of 90 degrees Celsius."

Most 5820K (it's haswell-e counterpart), will do [email protected] and are fine using an AIO unit or one of the bigger dual tower air cooler (noctua dh15 and similar).

 

[raystriker]

Honestly, sounds like silicon chips are reaching their limits

Honestly I don't see any reason why anyone would wanna buy this.
People who need more cores and cache can just opt for the latest Xeon cpus.

 

[Joe88]

Most 5820K (it's haswell-e counterpart), will do [email protected] and are fine using an AIO unit or one of the bigger dual tower air cooler (noctua dh15 and similar).

sounds pretty bad, I can do 4.3ghz @ 1.25v with a cm v8 with my 5820k (J batch) with not terrible temps at about 82C under load

 

[raystriker]

sounds pretty bad, I can do 4.3ghz @ 1.25v with a cm v8 with my 5820k (J batch) with not terrible temps at about 82C under load

82c is kinda hot don't you think

 

[Joe88]

82c is kinda hot don't you think

Considering its an air cooled haswell-e with a fairly heavy overclock...
No

Even cheap aio's have trouble keeping those chips cool