Intel's New 4th Gen Core i7 Processors and More - PAX Prime 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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our PAX Prime 2014 coverage is brought to you by hyperx Gaming products make
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sure you click their logo to check out the great gaming content on their YouTube channel as well as Phantom glass
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the ultimate gorilla glass screen protector for your mobile device so I'm
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actually only here at PA Prime 2014 for
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one day because there is one booth that
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has everything going on that I absolutely had to cover so we're here at
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Intel where they're launching not only three new CPUs but also a brand new chip
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set and finally they are launching well actually I don't know if they're
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launching that but they've got some PCI Express ssds over there as well that we
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are going to check out so inside this box right here is the all new and I'm
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going to try and get this right Intel new fourth generation extreme Edition
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processor 5960 okay whatever we're going to call it Haswell e because that's what
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I've been calling it for the last 6 months already anyway and it's the 5960x
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this is an octal core and I thought it was going to be octo but apparently it's
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octal according to Ida 64 so there you
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go it's an octal core processor that runs at 3 gz base and supports ddr4
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memory running on the x99 platform that means that when it comes to an absolute
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ultimate Performance Machine whether from a gaming perspective or from a
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Content creation or even from a workstation perspective this is pretty
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much it of course you're going to have to pay a pretty penny in order to get
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that quad Channel ddr4 support as well as has native support with no PCI
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splitting for up to 8X 8x8 x8x quad GPU
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operation now the obvious question here guys is what does anyone actually need
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an 8 core CPU for to which I would reply
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great question because we can't no no I'll come up with a different reason
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actually aside from gaming where most games are really limited to anywhere
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from one to four actual threads of utilization you could make the argument
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you don't really need it but multicore has always been about multitasking even
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when the first dual course came out I've heard that same argument as time has
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gone on well as Gamers we only need this many cor well it depends what you want
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to do in the background so we're actually going to have a video coming up
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soon where not only will we be streaming
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while gaming but we are also going to look at can you render an output video
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at the same time as gaming when you have this kind of horsepower now the extreme
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Edition as always is pretty darn expensive
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but don't worry you're not locked into just that one they've got the
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5930k as well as the 5820k which are both six cores now completing what is in
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my mind the most sensible CPU lineup That Intel has had in years you've got
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the mainstream platform which is your quad core and up to PCIe 8X 8X for dual
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card operation in SLI or Crossfire X
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then you pay a little bit more now and you get up to a six core on a much more
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robust bus platform it is an extremely exciting time and now we're popping over
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to something that's not actually a product release I mean this is just the
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p3700 it's got an Intel controller on it it's got a PCIe 4X interface it's got
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emlc so that's Enterprise great mlc nand on it and um this isn't new at all but I
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guess if we were to kind of you know
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infer based on that inside a consumer
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grade system you know Intel who's always so careful about the positioning of the
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products well this one is mainstream and this one is Enthusiast and this one is
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gaming they went and through this in what appears to be an Enthusiast gaming
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PC so maybe maybe we can draw some kind
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of conclusion about what the truly nextg
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SSD platform is going to be is it going to be SATA Express is it going to be m.2
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or are we going to be looking at some kind of product that's PCI Express based
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that delivers Enterprise grade performance in a desktop I guess there's
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only one way to find out by the way I just I have to do
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this they told me it doesn't work and told me to throw it on the ground so um
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if anyone's going to get in trouble it should be this
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guy all right guys don't miss any of our
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PX Prime 2014 coverage our trip to the show is brought to you by hyperx as well
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as Phantom glass check out the hyperx gaming channel on YouTube so so that's
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youtube.com/ kington hyperx they've got some great content over there and as for
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Phantom glass well they make some pretty badass screen protectors if we put one
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of those gorilla glass scen protectors on this SSD even if it was a working
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sample I could probably drop it although I'm sure Intel wouldn't be happy if I if
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I dropped a working sample can I drop this one I'm getting the no all right
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then