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Bauxite wrote:Hanging everything off the PCH and leaving all 16 cpu lanes open is really facepalm. Both M2 slots and thunderbolt controller, whhhhhhhhhhhhhhy?! Every drop bandwidth from every single peripheral is going to be shoved through the x4 DMI lanes, ugh.
End User wrote:I have no need for this.
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I so want this.
whm1974 wrote:End User wrote:I have no need for this.
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I so want this.
Why?
End User wrote:whm1974 wrote:End User wrote:I have no need for this.
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I so want this.
Why?
- It hits 700+ in Cinebench R15
- It is the size of a book
- 1984 me would be so impressed
And finally...
... Thunderbolt 3
whm1974 wrote:End User wrote:whm1974 wrote:Why?
- It hits 700+ in Cinebench R15
- It is the size of a book
- 1984 me would be so impressed
And finally...
... Thunderbolt 3
Don't me get wrong, it is very impressive for what it is. But I'm not going to spend ~$1000 to play games at 1080 30 fps on low settings.
Noinoi wrote:whm1974 wrote:Don't me get wrong, it is very impressive for what it is. But I'm not going to spend ~$1000 to play games at 1080 30 fps on low settings.
The Thunderbolt 3 part is exactly the ticket to actually good graphics performance (external graphics docks)
whm1974 wrote:Noinoi wrote:whm1974 wrote:Don't me get wrong, it is very impressive for what it is. But I'm not going to spend ~$1000 to play games at 1080 30 fps on low settings.
The Thunderbolt 3 part is exactly the ticket to actually good graphics performance (external graphics docks)
Right, if you are going to that, why not do a shoebox Mini-ITX build instead?
whm1974 wrote:We can build a shoebox Mini-ITX system for the same price that will outperform this.
EndlessWaves wrote:whm1974 wrote:We can build a shoebox Mini-ITX system for the same price that will outperform this.
It's difficult to find benchmarks against relevant hardware so I wouldn't be too sure an i5-5675C system will outperform this, and in any case it's five times the size at 3.5L vs. 0.7L.
This is appealing to the same market that buys ultra-thin high end laptops. The other prong of the hardware enthusiast community. The launch price is a little high, I guess Intel want to judge what the market will pay first, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a substantial drop in price.
Noinoi wrote:The Thunderbolt 3 part is exactly the ticket to actually good graphics performance (external graphics docks)
NTMBK wrote:Intel graphics just still aren't good enough. I'd like to see this form factor with a Zen APU, though.
NTMBK wrote:Intel graphics just still aren't good enough. I'd like to see this form factor with a Zen APU, though.
DancinJack wrote:NTMBK wrote:Intel graphics just still aren't good enough. I'd like to see this form factor with a Zen APU, though.
lol no.
I am actually looking forward to what vendors like Zotac and ASRock can do with a similar design. If they could take a Skylake-H processor without Iris Pro (say, Core i7-6820HQ), and use the PCIe lanes off the CPU to hook up a mobile discrete GPU, it could deliver the best of both worlds - all the 45W TDP of the CPU can be used to provide raw processing power for CPU-intensive workloads, while a dGPU can handle graphics duties with a separate power budget.
End User wrote:From the AnandTech review:I am actually looking forward to what vendors like Zotac and ASRock can do with a similar design. If they could take a Skylake-H processor without Iris Pro (say, Core i7-6820HQ), and use the PCIe lanes off the CPU to hook up a mobile discrete GPU, it could deliver the best of both worlds - all the 45W TDP of the CPU can be used to provide raw processing power for CPU-intensive workloads, while a dGPU can handle graphics duties with a separate power budget.
derFunkenstein wrote:Yeah, if mITX is too big, a system with a 14/16-nm GPU will be the way to go—once those GPUs are available, anyway.
synthtel2 wrote:External GPU setups still sound like an annoying idea just because it adds more boxen for no real benefit. When moving my computer around, the big mess of cables is more annoying than the computer itself (though said computer is in a 13 liter case). I don't need a power brick and an external GPU enclosure adding to that.
whm1974 wrote:derFunkenstein wrote:Yeah, if mITX is too big, a system with a 14/16-nm GPU will be the way to go—once those GPUs are available, anyway.
Bit a shoebox mITX isn't all that big anyway.