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Intel Broadwell-E Extreme Edition

The rumors were true: Intel indeed had a monstrous 10-core enthusiast processor up its sleeve. The long-awaited Broadwell-E “Extreme Edition” enthusiast CPU lineup launched with a bang at Computex, spearheaded by the Core i7-6950X, a beast of a chip with 10 CPU cores, fancy per-core overclocking, Turbo Boost Max 3.0 technology, drop-in compatibility with Haswell-E motherboards, and more.

Its price is just as monstrous: $1,723, or $723 higher than the previous 8-core Haswell-E flagship. That’s a hell of a jump, and prices on all Extreme Edition chips went up across the board with this new generation. Our exhaustive Intel Core i7-6950X review has full nitty-gritty details, or check out the 10 things you need to know about Broadwell-E for a CliffsNotes version. Or you can just watch a video of overclockers cranking the beast up to 5.7GHz

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Don't have time to sit through a massive chart-filled review? Here's the 10 top things you need to know about Intel's wild 10-core CPU monster.

1. It has 10 cores, silly

Intel’s new Broadwell-E family is defined by its top dog: the 10-core Core i7-6950X. It uses the same basic “5th-gen” cores found in laptops of 2015 and is built on a 14nm process. But yeah, 10-cores, man—10-cores. With its Hyper-Threading, that means an insane 20 threads of compute power at your sweaty fingertips.

For those who like to track records, this is the first consumer x86 chip with 10 cores. Before you bark that you’ve been able to get Xeons with 10 cores and more already, that’s true, but Xeons aren’t normally for consumer consumption.


2. There are actually four new models

If you can tear your brain away from the idea of a 10-core chip, I’ll fill you in on all four models. Besides the 10-core Core i7-6950X at the top, Intel is also introducing the 8-core Core i7-6900K, the 6-core Core i7-6850K, and a “budget” 6-core Core i7-6800K. That last chip’s main difference is that its PCIe performance has been cut to 28 lanes versus the 40 lanes in the other three chips.


3. The family is drop-in compatible

All four chips are intended to be drop-in compatible with existing and new X99-based motherboards using the LGA2011-V3 socket. To run one, you’ll just need to update your BIOS (some boards allow this even if a CPU is not installed) and drop in your shiny new Broadwell-E.

One caveat: Although Intel said it doesn’t foresee any issues with older boards and Broadwell-E, we experienced one snag with a budget X99 Asrock board that didn't support Intel’s Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 feature.


4. It has Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0

Intel’s Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 is exclusive to the new Broadwell-E family. First, Intel identifies at the factory which of the cores is the best of the litter. Then, a driver installed in the OS (with support for Windows 7, 8.1, and 10) lets the OS bind applications to that fastest core when only one computing thread is used.

In practical use, without Turbo Boost Max 3.0, the Core i7-6950X would run one single core up to 3.5GHz. With Turbo Boost Max 3.0 enabled, that core can hit 4GHz.

This is just the beginning. Turbo Boost Max 3.0 paves the way for a day when the OS can more intelligently throw workloads to particular CPU cores.


5. It has per-core overclocking

Besides Turbo Boost Max 3.0, Broadwell-E will also allow you to overclock particular cores. With Haswell-E, you could overclock cores based on thread load. For example, with two cores in use, you could tell the CPU to overclock to, say, 4.5GHz. The OS and Haswell-E though, would just throw the overclock at any cores. With Broadwell-E, you can specify that it overclock Core 1 and Core 5, which, you’ve determined through testing, overclock the best.


6. A decent overclocking experience

We’re loath to pass judgement on an entire series of CPUs based on our one early press sample, but our experience overclocking was mostly satisfactory. We easily pushed our 10-core Core i7-6950X to 4GHz across all cores without even resorting to “scary” things like voltage tweaks. We then pushed the core that Intel identified at the factory as being the best to 4.5GHz on single-threaded loads. While we didn’t do exhaustive stress tests, we had no issues during several hours of use or while running benchmarks. One caveat: We could do this only with a higher-end Asus X99 Deluxe II board. Our budget Asrock X99 Extreme 4 gave us bupkis.


7. Redstone will support it, too

Motherboard vendors tell us this ability to throw loads at particular cores will soon be added natively to Windows 10 in the upcoming Redstone update.


8. It’s crazy-fast

Yes, it’s crazy-fast. Intel’s aim with the Broadwell-E was to make it competitive with quad-core CPUs, which typically run at higher clock speeds, while also giving it a huge advantage in tasks that can use the six, eight, or 10 cores at hand. Our testing proves that to be mostly true. The 10-Core i7-6950X, for example, doesn’t give much quarter to a quad-core Core i7-6700K. And when the workloads turned to multithreading, the Broadwell-E crushed that puny quad-core across the board.


9. Not everyone can use that performance

This excessive performance, however, will apply only to select use cases. The 10-core Broadwell-E has so many compute threads it’s difficult to task them all at the same time. For example, we found we had to push multiple, multithreaded workloads to get the most out or our chip. So if your typical workday consists of running Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud and a browser simultaneously, this is too much chip. If, however, you’re in the habit of running Premiere Pro Creative Cloud along with 3D rendering, and maybe Adobe AfterEffects and a browser, this chip will do it.


10. It’s crazy-expensive

We’ll leave the most important detail for last, and that’s the price of the top-end 10-core part. First, sit down and swallow your mouthful of Diet Coke, lest you do a spit take. The price is $1,723. Yes, we’ll repeat that lest you assume it’s a typo: $1,723, for one chip.

Ouch. Even the lesser models get a price hike over older equivalents, with the 8-core Core i7-6900K at $1,089 and the 6-core Core i7-6850K at $617. The “budget” 6-core Core i7-6800K will set you back $434.

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Patriot announces 2TB Ignite and budget-friendly Spark SSDs

Patriot has a couple of new solid state drive options, including one that's aimed at users who want more capacity out of single drive setups, and another that's intended for budget buyers.

Starting with the former, Patriot added a 2TB capacity option to its Ignite line of SSDs. This is Patriot's performance family of SATA 6Gbps SSDs, which prior to this new addition topped out at 960GB. Now there's a model more than twice as big to accommodate growing libraries of games.

"The 2TB Ignite offers consumers the fast transfer speeds expected of our Ignite line along with the extra capacity required by power users," Said Les Henry, VP of Engineering at Patriot. "These drives are the perfect solution for those users with very large game and video libraries as well as systems being used for cloud storage."

As with the other drives in the Ignite series, the 2TB model uses a Phison S10 controller. According to Patriot, it can deliver sequential read speeds of up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 500MB/s.

The 2TB Ignite SSD will be available to purchase sometime in the fourth quarter. Patriot didn't say how much it will cost, but as a point of reference, the 960GB streets for about $310 to $315.

If that's a bit rich for your blood, Patriot also launched its Spark series for builders looking for a superior bang-for-buck proposition.

The Spark series is available in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities. All three models pair TLC NAND flash memory with a Phison S11 controller. Depending on the capacity, sequential read and write speeds go up to 555MB/s and 500MB/s, respectively.

"The Spark is a perfect entry level drive for those users looking to add a boost to their system," Henry said. "As many companies are just now coming out with their first generation TLC SSDs, the Spark is Patriot’s second generation TLC SSD Line."

Patriot will make its Spark SSDs available sometime in the third quarter. They'll be priced at $35 for the 128GB model, $57 for the 256GB SSD, and $105 for the 512GB model.

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