Intel's Skylake-X enthusiast HEDT family of processors has officially announced at Computex in Taipei a couple of days ago. Expanding Intel's high-end lineup, from 4 cores to 6 cores to 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 then a maximum of 18 cores / 36 threads. The new Core-X series includes both Intel's Skylake-X architecture as well as the Kabylake-X architecture. The new chips will be running under the X299 platform on the LGA 2066 socket.
Overclockers are already putting them to full use:
Renowned overclocker Elmor broke the 10-core Cinebench world records with Intel's latest i7 7900X 10-core $999 chip. By using liquid Nitrogen to cool the processor, he was managed to achieve 5.7GHz.
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