960 Pro specs released

DooRules wrote: Still around, yes. Although running two systems now. Threw a 6950x in an R5V10 mobo with a Titan XP gpu. Monster combo  Samsung just keeps pushing the envelope for sure don't they.

No surprise there at all!

Since I've been in Broadwell-E land myself lately, I'll ask you about yours. I don't think you have a Haswell-E CPU to compare it to, so my questions may be hard to answer.

Given what I've experienced, and read about, Broadwell-E is not a great over clocking processor. It is common to hit a 4.3GHz limit for a core OC. The Cache runs slower than Haswell-E, 2.8GHz stock speed, and is maxed out at about 3.8GHz OC, if you are lucky.

I've read in the OCN Broadwell-E thread, which is almost 100% about Asus boards, about dead processors from over clocking. How often do we hear about that? I'm not blaming the boards, although there is talk about OC socket issues.

Then there is Intel's "Turbo Boost Max 3.0", which is not really a new type of Turbo boost. It selects the best cores to Turbo boost. Also, the BIOS option to limit clock speed when AVX instructions are running. Plus an Asus utility to protect the CPU or cores from high temperatures, I forget the name.

This all seems to be things to protect these processors, not features that enhance performance.

What are your general thoughts about these things, and your 6950X?

Still around, yes. Although running two systems now. Threw a 6950x in an R5V10 mobo with a Titan XP gpu. Monster combo 

not sure where I should post this guys so I put it here