![]() ![]() Over the summer Skylake-X processors have been announced with limited releases and availability for the highest core count procs. Intel did anticipate Zen (or Ryzen), but the AMD consumer aimed Threadripper 16-core and Naples server segment 32-core made Intel step up its game a notch as they shifted into a higher gear ever since Ryzen was released. You can't really blame Intel either as there simply was no competition - hence they had no rush and have been relaxed all the way for years now. Broadwell-E / Haswell-E / Skylake-X) processor release every now and then. Intel’s primary processor business has been releasing and refreshing quad-core processors for many years combined with high-margin spicy priced E type (e.g. ![]() AMD gave Intel a serious awakening call and as such they needed to step up, significantly. With the introduction of Ryzen and more recently the announcement of Threadripper processors the processor market and channel has been turned up-side down, and Intel is slowly waking up from it's S3 deep-sleep state finally realizing that they cannot keep serving just quad-core processors in mainstream, as they have been doing for subsequent years now. These will need to be paired with a new motherboard chipset and thus motherboard, the Z370 based ranges. With this first 'mainstream' step from intel they will offer 6-core processors. A product line that is the direct answer and effect from what AMD has been pursuing aggressively in the desktop processor channel. ![]() This more affordable ROG will get that 8700K well over 5.1 GHz, get ya sum 'o dat!Ĭoffee Lake are the new 8th generation desktop processors from Intel, including the new mainstream six-core part. But being an ROG board, it does offer some pretty sweet tweaking options hidden inside that BIOS. ASUS released the c, it is time for a quick peek 'n review to see what this board offers. Armed with that ROG flavor it is a board that performs and looks nice. The motherboard has been fitted with the usual suspects, including a Gigabit based Ethernet jack and on that PCB you may house two M2 SSDs. ![]()
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