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actually only here at PA Prime 2014 for
one day because there is one booth that
has everything going on that I absolutely had to cover so we're here at
Intel where they're launching not only three new CPUs but also a brand new chip
set and finally they are launching well actually I don't know if they're
launching that but they've got some PCI Express ssds over there as well that we
are going to check out so inside this box right here is the all new and I'm
going to try and get this right Intel new fourth generation extreme Edition
processor 5960 okay whatever we're going to call it Haswell e because that's what
I've been calling it for the last 6 months already anyway and it's the 5960x
this is an octal core and I thought it was going to be octo but apparently it's
octal according to Ida 64 so there you
go it's an octal core processor that runs at 3 gz base and supports ddr4
memory running on the x99 platform that means that when it comes to an absolute
ultimate Performance Machine whether from a gaming perspective or from a
Content creation or even from a workstation perspective this is pretty
much it of course you're going to have to pay a pretty penny in order to get
that quad Channel ddr4 support as well as has native support with no PCI
splitting for up to 8X 8x8 x8x quad GPU
operation now the obvious question here guys is what does anyone actually need
an 8 core CPU for to which I would reply
great question because we can't no no I'll come up with a different reason
actually aside from gaming where most games are really limited to anywhere
from one to four actual threads of utilization you could make the argument
you don't really need it but multicore has always been about multitasking even
when the first dual course came out I've heard that same argument as time has
gone on well as Gamers we only need this many cor well it depends what you want
to do in the background so we're actually going to have a video coming up
soon where not only will we be streaming
while gaming but we are also going to look at can you render an output video
at the same time as gaming when you have this kind of horsepower now the extreme
Edition as always is pretty darn expensive
but don't worry you're not locked into just that one they've got the
5930k as well as the 5820k which are both six cores now completing what is in
my mind the most sensible CPU lineup That Intel has had in years you've got
the mainstream platform which is your quad core and up to PCIe 8X 8X for dual
card operation in SLI or Crossfire X
then you pay a little bit more now and you get up to a six core on a much more
robust bus platform it is an extremely exciting time and now we're popping over
to something that's not actually a product release I mean this is just the
p3700 it's got an Intel controller on it it's got a PCIe 4X interface it's got
emlc so that's Enterprise great mlc nand on it and um this isn't new at all but I
guess if we were to kind of you know
infer based on that inside a consumer
grade system you know Intel who's always so careful about the positioning of the
products well this one is mainstream and this one is Enthusiast and this one is
gaming they went and through this in what appears to be an Enthusiast gaming
PC so maybe maybe we can draw some kind
of conclusion about what the truly nextg
SSD platform is going to be is it going to be SATA Express is it going to be m.2
or are we going to be looking at some kind of product that's PCI Express based
that delivers Enterprise grade performance in a desktop I guess there's
only one way to find out by the way I just I have to do
this they told me it doesn't work and told me to throw it on the ground so um
if anyone's going to get in trouble it should be this
guy all right guys don't miss any of our
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of those gorilla glass scen protectors on this SSD even if it was a working
sample I could probably drop it although I'm sure Intel wouldn't be happy if I if
I dropped a working sample can I drop this one I'm getting the no all right
then