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Intel kills Kaby Lake-X, the bizarre enthusiast CPUs that nobody wanted |
May 02, 2018
Intel’s Kaby Lake-X chips were a headscratcher from the start.Launched alongside the massively multi-core Skylake-X processors last summer, the quad-core chips didn’t offer any noticeable advantages over standard Kaby Lake chips beyond a very slight speed bump. Yet they required pricey X299 motherboards that cost significantly more than mainstream hardware—then failed to take advantage of the key platform advantages of the swankier chipset. Intel pitched the CPUs as an overclocker’s dream, but really, they were just plain weird, and effectively made obsolete mere months after release with the introduction of the 6-core, 12-thread Core i7-8700K in October.To read this article in full, please click here
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3269482/components-processors/intel-kaby-lake-x-discontinued.html#tk.rss_all
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