Reviewers Liked
- Quad-channel memory support
- Full range of HEDT features
- SkylakeX topped our performance charts, bringing a much better value over BroadwellE on the highend
Reviewers Didn't Like
- It's extremely power hungry
- Outpaced by many 8-core CPUs in heavily multi-core workloads
- Considerably more expensive than Ryzen equivalents