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for years now the high-end LGA 2011 socket had bells and whistles like quad-channel memory support higher overall memory capacity more PCI Express Lanes so therefore inherently better support for multi graphics card setups and finally support for processors with more than 4 cores so why is it that Core i5 and core i7 is on the main stream socket have been so popular with gamers overclockers and enthusiasts with the purchase of a qualifying Intel processor SSD or nook you could instantly win and Intel gaming Jersey and be entered in the draw for the ultimate system click now to learn more in the LGA 1366 days all the hardware nerds went enthusiast because that's where the hot offerings like the core i7 920 could be found but starting with Sandy Bridge back in early 2011 Intel started releasing their newer processor microarchitectures on the mainstream platform first before bringing them to the enthusiast platform so particularly for gamers it was better to buy the lower end product for better single-threaded performance often that are overclocking much lower prices and even more up-to-date feature sets thunderbolt for example has never been available to DIY consumers on LGA 2011 in fact the only real reason to go enthusiasts was to get a 6 core processor but unless you wanted a pretty slow Xeon those started at $1000 until a year ago when the 49 30 K became available at the value price of nearly $600 still pretty expensive but now they finally done it with the release of the LGA 2011 3 socket and x99 chipset and the 5820k 59 30k and 59 6 DX CPUs to go with them Intel has finally addressed my complaints and made the final step towards reestablishing really the sensibility of their 2 socket system we've gone LGA 1150 for mainstream consumers and LGA 2011 3 for enthusiasts with all CPUs on both sockets featuring the latest Haswell microarchitecture except now in addition to more PCIe gen3 lanes except the 5820k which actually gets fewer and quad-channel memory we get support for ddr4 which means higher speed memory at lower voltages with lower power consumption and higher capacities in the future thunderbolt expansion capability better base clock overclocking and every LGA 2011 3 CPU has at least 6 processing cores and 12 threads with hyper-threading with $1,000 Extreme Edition featuring 8 cores and 16 threads but before you get too excited it's not all peer sunshine and rainbows on LGA 2011 3 there are no core i5s so in terms of pricing haswell-e enthusiast grade chips start where regular has well and devil's canyon ones leave off at around $400 on top of that x99 boards and the ddr4 to go with them are more expensive as well do the higher cost of the chipset more complicated board design and the engineering costs associated with bringing a new platform to market and then for the RAM it's just in such low volumes in terms of manufacturing that it tends to be very very expensive every time we transition memory technologies but you guys can watch this video to hear all that boring oh it's expensive stuff so let's show off the hardware for today's performance overview of the brand-new high-end 59 60 X first up is the board a sue sent over there creatively named x99 deluxe the follow-up to our favorite last gen board around here the X 79 deluxe and it comes with some serious upgrades first up is those ddr4 memory slots that support up to 64 gigs of DDR 4 and with the right kit we've confirmed this with the three gigahertz high-speed g.skill memory kit that we ran our performance numbers with up to 3,000 megahertz ddr4 with some creative XMP implementation that actually uses the 125 base clock strap and lowers the CPU multiplier but kept our system stable throughout benching somehow in spite of the slightly over claw CPU speed so there you go next we've got dramatically improved storage capabilities the last gen board was stuck with only two native SATA 3 ports for with a Marvel controller well now we get up to 12 with four of them capable of being used for up to two SATA Express 10 gigabit ports and then on top of all that we get this fancy little bracket that allows an MDOT two SSD to be installed that will run at ten gigabit per second as well USB three has gotten a significant upgrade as well with a total of fourteen ports supported although I personally wouldn't have minded seeing a couple of these replaced by a ps2 port some of us still like them but since we're checking out the rear i/o now seems like a good time to mention the upgraded networking we've got better Intel networking now with slightly better performance lower CPU utilization and more software prioritizations options we've also got three spatial stream onboard AC wireless that boasts 1.3 gigabit per second maximum theoretical bandwidth and then finally not related to networking but also on the back panel we've got upgraded onboard audio that features some of the same technology that we've become accustomed to seeing on our og boards like amplified headphone output and audio grade capacitors and whatnot onto the UEFI BIOS there's been an aesthetic and functional overhaul we get all the fancy little features that z97 users have been enjoying like the configurable favorite submenu simplified overclocking and raid setup and finally in BIOS temperature sensor controlled fan curve configuration that can handle either DC or PWM control on any fan header on the board or the little molex power daughter board that you can reposition and that acts as a controllable fan hub elsewhere in your system giving you up to eight controllable fans oh yeah and it looks pretty sweet too I guess with white shielding on the i/o and a sexy matte black PCB this is a big improvement over the last generation gold thing they had going on onto the cpu today will be focused on the big kahuna the 59 60 X this is an 8 core mother of a chip that comes clocked at really three gigahertz base that's it I mean sure it's got 20 Meg's at level three cache compared to 50 Meg's on the lower end chips and to full extra cores but three gigahertz stock 3.5 gigahertz max turbo am I supposed to be impressed not until we start overclocking it something anyone buying themselves an Extreme Edition owes it to themselves to do overclocked we got our chip running at four point three five gigahertz effortlessly at which speed we were even able to run our ddr4 Ram at 3,000 megahertz and we've seen reports around the web of 3.6 gigahertz even without pushing these things too hard on liquid cooling so at that point is it fast well we put it up against the consumer grade chip that has passed for high-end up until now the core i7 4790k to determine exactly what's up with the CPU when it comes to gaming performance well until DirectX 12 land with its supposed dramatic improvements to multi-threading supporting games I think a course might be a bit overkill for normal gamers and higher / core clock speeds will continue to be important but throwing some of i-264 synthetic benchmarks at it reveals a different story and back to the real world when we start feeding it some truly multi-threading optimized workloads such as file compression and 3d rendering the 59 60 X reveals itself as the true multi-threading Beast that it is in fact once overclocked it's really not that far off the two and a half thousand dollar last gen 12 core Xeon that we just put in a Diesel's machine for editing and 3d rendering so that's it for the extreme edition but don't worry we're gonna be doing lots more content around Intel's latest truly enthusiast grade platform but we want your feedback on what you want to see from us should we take a deep dive into the 5820 KS performance which aside from 12 fewer PCI Express Lanes seems to be the ultimate gamer and multitasker sweet spot should we look into this new platform from a content creator perspective should we quantify the real-world difference between ddr3 and ddr4 and as close to an apples to apples comparison as we can you let us know what kind of content we should make thanks for watching guys and a huge thanks to g.skill who sponsored today's episode and provided the brand spanking new Ripjaws for ddr4 ram featured in the video we've been using g.skill ram in our test benches for a long time now we trust their products and we're extremely happy to finally be working with them from our sponsorship sort of level the specific kit that we showed off today is a four by four gig 16 gig kit running at 3,000 megahertz 1.3 5 volts CL 15 but they'll be offering a very comprehensive lineup including a 16 get gig kit that runs at 3200 megahertz a 32 gig kit at 3,000 megahertz and a 64 gig kit at 2800 megahertz bananas G skills 16 gig 32 hundred megahertz kit actually holds the current ddr4 speed record at four thousand four megahertz pretty darn fast for such a new platform anyway guys if you need some ddr4 consider using the link in the video description to pick it up thanks for watching again don't 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