Intel giving away free chips

[Roohansama 506]

It's a big year for Intel. The company turns 50 this year (that's a helluva lot in silicon years) and its original 8086 processor, the same one used in IBM's original PC design, is turning 40.

 

So to celebrate, Intel is turning positively Wonka-esque and giving away 8,086 brand new eighth-gen Intel Core i7 chips.

 

As well as celebrating the original 8086, the limited edition Core i7-8086K will boast a number of firsts, according to Intel. It's the first Intel processor to deliver up to 5.0Ghz single-core turbo frequency performance (so it's good for content creators and gamers) and it's also unlocked for overclocking.

 

The 8086 "sweepstakes" will be open to residents of the US, China, Germany, Canada, France, the UK, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Each of those countries have 500 up for grabs, except Germany, China and the US which will have considerably more processors to give away (1,000, 2,000 and 2,086 respectively).

 

To enter, you need to head to Intel's sweepstakes website, here enter your details from June 7 at 5 p.m. PT. After 24 hours, Intel will choose 8,086 winners.

 

Only the residents of these countries are eligible,

US, China, Germany, Canada, France, the UK, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.

 

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[Puddingsbane 1153]

"It's the first Intel processor to deliver up to 5.0Ghz single-core turbo frequency performance" one little problem tho, it can't lol. The motherboard they were using was a socket P mobo with an LGA 3647 which is the same as the Xeon motherboard and it's clear that they took the existing Xeon grade processor and repositioned as a desktop part and the CPU in question is probably, most likely, an intel 8176 platinum which is a Skylake-X processor....Not new. And when asked, intel didn't neglect the note of the cooling solution they were using to achieve the said frequency, they used a chiller behind the scenes hidden from the eyes of others that was holding the constant -10 C, so you are looking at mid 50's to low 60's in working temps on the cpu (WITH 28 CORES AND OC TO 5GHZ, AT MID 50'S ON WATER, NOPE!). Overclocking a 28 core cpu to 5ghz on liquid cooling will result in system instability, blue screens and system hangs without some sort of exotic cooling solution like for instance LN2 or in this case a chiller.

 

This was a last minute panic change in response to Threadripper 2, and a lame one at best. Even at lower frequencies this thing would be extremely difficult for a consumer to cool. Hope this sheds some light on things.