i5 With Hyperthreading?

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https://www.techpowerup.com/230422/amds-...pu-line-up
Really interesting. If this is true, what does the future hold for mainstream i7s? And reportedly these new Kaby Lake CPUs will start sampling by the end of this week.

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https://www.techpowerup.com/230474/intel...tdp-no-igp

It was also reported in the older article that the TDP of these chips will be rated at 100W. Turns out that they're rated even higher, at 112W, according to PC Games Hardware (PCGH). The top-dog AMD Ryzen R7-1800X features 95W TDP.

According to PCGH, what sets Kaby Lake-X apart from Kaby Lake-S appears to be Intel disabling the integrated graphics. You now need a graphics card to get going with these chips, and it will get trickier if you want to recover your graphics card from a bad BIOS flash. The chips also reportedly feature a high-performance thermal interface material (TIM) under the integrated heatspreaders (IHS). Compared to the i7-7700K and i5-7600K, these chips feature minor 100 MHz speed-bumps, but Intel could make them better overclockers.

Update: Apparently these two chips are built in the new socket 2660 package, and will be launched around Gamescom, some time in August.

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The i7-7740K is part of Intel's next HEDT line, using the X299 chipset: https://www.techpowerup.com/231868/intel...e-i7-7740k