Skylake-E/EP to be LGA 3647

[Jim K Global Moderator]

...or 1636 pins more than the LGA 2011-3 socket.  Will support 12 slots of memory (or hexa channel memory).  Intel must have been looking around and then said.... "we're going to need a bigger chip"

 

From WCCFTech...

 

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We can expect up to 28 cores, 56 threads and an insane amount of cache on these processors that will feature 45-160W TDPs with 6 channel DDR4 memory support and 48 PCI-Express lanes per chip. An 8S platform housing these chips will end up featuring 228 cores, 448 threads and 560 MB of L3 cache. The Skylake chips are expected to hit market in 1H 2017 with the new server board designs that include Wolf Pass, Buchanan Pass and Sawtooth Pass. The latest racks will fully support Intel’s Skylake-EP Xeon E5-2600 V5, Xeon E5-4600 V5 and Skylake-EX Xeon E7-8800 V5 processors that will be built on the current generation 14nm process node.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-e-lga-3647-hexa-channel-memory/#ixzz4AH2efaxL

 

[Circaflex]

interesting and a total bummer in some aspects. At least when we moved from 1366 to 2011v1, sizes were roughly the same and heatsinks, waterblocks and phase change still fit as the mounting holes were the same, except 2011 didnt have a passthrough like 1366.

[xendrome]

3 minutes ago, Circaflex said:

interesting and a total bummer in some aspects. At least when we moved from 1366 to 2011v1, sizes were roughly the same and heatsinks, waterblocks and phase change still fit as the mounting holes were the same, except 2011 didnt have a passthrough like 1366.

Who the heck is using waterblocks in a server?

[Circaflex]

1 minute ago, xendrome said:

Who the heck is using waterblocks in a server?

Not everyone runs these chips in just a server environment, plenty have used xeons previously for benching. xtremesystems has plenty of them. Im not saying this is the average person, nor should intel care if they change anything that would mess with those select people, just a bummer to see it happen.

[xendrome]

Just now, Circaflex said:

Not everyone runs these chips in just a server environment, plenty have used xeons previously for benching. xtremesystems has plenty of them.

I suppose, but Intel isn't marketing these towards the consumer market, so I wouldn't expect a large compatability push with cooling hardware. I would guess 95%+ of these chips are sold via OEMs with custom build server hardware, Dell, HP, IBM, etc

[Circaflex]

4 minutes ago, xendrome said:

I suppose, but Intel isn't marketing these towards the consumer market, so I wouldn't expect a large compatability push with cooling hardware. I would guess 95%+ of these chips are sold via OEMs with custom build server hardware, Dell, HP, IBM, etc

100% agree, I think i did an edit right before you posted.

[Jim K Global Moderator]

17 minutes ago, xendrome said:

I suppose, but Intel isn't marketing these towards the consumer market, so I wouldn't expect a large compatability push with cooling hardware. I would guess 95%+ of these chips are sold via OEMs with custom build server hardware, Dell, HP, IBM, etc

Ooo.  You don't think these will hit the consumer market to replace the current (or just recently announced) Broadwell-E?  I was guessing (nothing to base it on) that these would eventually trickle down to the consumer as the i7-7xxx (or whatever) HEDT set.

 

bummer  (not that I would have bought one)

[Noir Angel]

Pretty sure after market coolers will be made for them. Some people do use Xeons in custom workstations and rendering rigs.

[xendrome]

22 minutes ago, Riva said:

Bad news for those that bought an 2011-v3. It will cost a fortune to replace everything, again

Oh, are the 2011-v3's going to stop functioning the day these new chips release? Intel-timebomb technology?