Intel's Surprise 28 Core CPU - WE RAN IT!
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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today using the link in the video description this year
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as far as i knew coming into this Intel
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wasn't supposed to have any new CPU products on display and yet there's the
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commemorative like 40-year anniversary of the original 8086 CPU that we're
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gonna actually we we found one here on the floor we're gonna go check that out
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later that thing launched also they're giving away
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8086 of them just freaking crazy maybe we'll link the details to that down
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below and then we swung by the rog booth again
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and this was not here yesterday so
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they're calling this rog dominic's dominus dominus
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16 phase rog concept motherboard with some kind of
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classified CPU in it and i have gone out
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of my way to ask all of the ASUS people
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here as little as possible because as soon as
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they tell me anything about this i'm going to be like honor bound to not say
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anything because Intel is being extremely tight-lipped about what's
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going on in here and i have seen some pretty um
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dumbs not the word i'm looking for but some pretty unlikely speculation about
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what exactly is going on here so first of all
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let's bring up so they're letting us run cinebench this is this is freaking
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awesome they're letting us run cinebench so we've got a score from last time 6
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000 points we can't bring up CPU zed but
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we're allowed to run cinebench so let's see if we can count how many oh crap
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okay it's going to be pretty hard for us to count how many course
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it has which pretty much tells me everything
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that i need to know because
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a lot of people wouldn't recognize this socket but i've actually been working on
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a six video editors one CPU project for a while so i've got ASUS dual lga 3647
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socket ws sageboard and uh it's got a
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socket that looks an awful lot like that now we know Intel isn't launching any
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new CPU architectures right now so we can speculate that this is probably
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based on the same socket and a similar
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CPU to the 28 core max chips that i've
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been running for that project we also
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know that because there's six memory slots it is either triple channel which
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would be a total blast from the past or it is six channel memory which again
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would suggest that this is going to be very similar to Intel's server grade
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xeon platform now i was a little bit critical of xeon w
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because as far as we could tell it's basically a core i9 with ecc memory
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tacked onto it for a few hundred extra dollars
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and Intel didn't seem like they were going to be supporting the high the very
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high-end workstation with these server only chips is something like that going
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to happen well based on that the bottom
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third or so of this board seems to be recycled from the sage
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i would say that could happen and based on their um
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their concept grade 16 phase power delivery system up here i
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would say that they are probably going to allow overclocking which is
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incredibly exciting okay so the one thing that they'll tell us about this
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other than that it's 16 phase and that it's running some kind of classified CPU
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is that this power delivery setup up here check this out you got two 24 pins
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in there's one over there there's one down here and then i can't actually find
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them all but it would appear as though there are yeah here they are one two
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three four five six a combination of four
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eight pins and two six pins that appear to be designed to power the CPU socket
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alone over here there's no vrm this is just more heatsink with more fans six
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fans and this thing can provide up to 2
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000 watts of power like 2100 watts or
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something like that okay so to put that in context the 18 core extreme edition
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core i9 can suck back about 500 watts
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under water or about a thousand under liquid nitrogen so i wouldn't be
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surprised if they were building this thing for liquid nitrogen which might
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tell us that if this is a 28 core CPU and we were to overclock it to i don't
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know let's say four point something high five gigahertz who knows it could pull
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as much as a thousand watts of power
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that is like that's like Threadripper what Threadripper
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and here it is where the one and only der eight hour
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is that how you pronounce it durator no i'm just kidding
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der bauer has got an 8086k
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running on i don't know some kind of motherboard it's covered in like automotive shop cloth and a liquid
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nitrogen pod anyway the point is they've got it running at
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7.1 gigahertz at the moment and we've
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got a shot of CPU z up here which will tell us a totally unrealistic speed that
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you might get it running at if you're basically him and nobody else it also
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tells us it's six cores 12 threads so basically an
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8700k and um
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unfortunately that's pretty much all there is to it from his testing he
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figures it's about as good as a good 8700k
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not like super special bend or anything like that and um
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you do get a special badge in CPU zed it says 40th anniversary but other than
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that this is mostly meant to be a commemorative skew and any rumors about
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soldered ihs or anything like that seem to have been
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exaggerated so i guess that's pretty much it for
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whoa whoa oh we're gonna give them we're gonna make them sick dennis