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Haswell-E Launching Q2 - Ahead of Schedule
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Pricing will mirror the current Ivy-E stuff. 5820K @ $330, 5930K @ $550.
I have no idea on the second part. There's a lot of stuff that these have which the consumer socket doesn't though, like 40 PCI-E lanes, DDR4 support, and more cores.
BoboBrazil
Member
Why are mobos supporting ddr4? Wouldn't it make more sense just to go to ddr5?
Prophet Steve
Member
DDR4, it's happening!
Probably will be pretty expensive though, and I am not sure how much you will notice faster RAM. But we shall see. And people who get Haswell-E already got a bit more money to spend anyway.
Probably will be pretty expensive though, and I am not sure how much you will notice faster RAM. But we shall see. And people who get Haswell-E already got a bit more money to spend anyway.
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The Everyman
are you thinking of gddr?
Joke post?
Nah, this is enthusiast stuff. No big deal for most folks.
It's nice to see Intel finally releasing eight-core desktop CPUs but there's no way I'm paying the "enthusiast" premium. As it stands the only upgrades on the horizon for me are another 8GB of DDR3 and the replacing of my two 670s with two 870s.
He may be confusing DDR and GDDR.
He may be confusing DDR and GDDR.
Zombie James
Banned
DDR4 is going to push system prices though the roof.
BoboBrazil
Member
Oops, my bad. I'm so out of the loop on pc stuff. What's the expected gains going from dd3 to ddr4?
You should just start collecting pc parts like you collect games.
Yeah, but considering the size of the PS4 GDDR5 joke, and this being GAF, I assumed the worse. Shame on me 
This is the enthusiast platform. The stuff that most people use, which is the consumer socket (1150 now, 1155 last gen) is still using DDR3. We are already seeing the brunt of DDR4 going into production on memory prices though. It's more than doubled in the last two years.
Objectively Bad Opinion
Member
How much is DDR4 going to cost? Arm+leg I bet.
opticalmace
Member
Soo, how long until I can justify upgrading my 2500K? lol
Haha, collecting Steam games burns through enough of my spare cash as it is... to such an extent, in fact, that Hanna is still the most recent Saoirse Ronan film among my BD collection.
I do plan on fixing that, though. So, most Core i7 CPUs have 4 cores, 8 threads and some have 6/12, right?
Haswell-E ups it to 8 cores and 16 threads? (not counting the 6 core version)
Edit: Nevermind.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/36310...ead-haswell-e-platform-at-computex/index.html
Haswell-E ups it to 8 cores and 16 threads? (not counting the 6 core version)
Edit: Nevermind.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/36310...ead-haswell-e-platform-at-computex/index.html
GhostTrick
Banned
As far as I'm concerned, time to upgrade will be when 6 core Intel CPU will be for 300 dollars or such, but also when DX12 GPU and DDR4 will be available.
Two years easily.
That makes me sadder than I'd like to admit.Haha, collecting Steam games burns through enough of my spare cash as it is... to such an extent, in fact, that Hanna is still the most recent Saoirse Ronan film among my BD collection.
KimonoNoNo
Member
So when can we expect to see Broadwell?
Im a Manatee
Member
Im most interested to see if there will be any IPC improvements. Seems like these "E" series have just been supersized versions
The 5820K will be 6C/12T for $330, and the platform supports DDR4.
Indeed they will be. Plus, the heatspreader will be soldered on!
Q4 I think?
Same architecture as Haswell, so no IPC improvements there. But, the heat spreader will be soldered on, and the die is much larger, so it should probably overclock much better than Haswell.
Ravijn
Member
For the enthusiast socket, yes. The 5820K will be the entry level proc for this socket.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Intel finally releasing real 8 core CPUs to the consumer market?
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I'm still on i7-950 so I am paying close attention. Don't let us down, Intel.
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I'm still on i7-950 so I am paying close attention. Don't let us down, Intel.
My i7-920 is still going strong from late 2008, not planning on upgrading for a few years.
It's kinda ridiculous how little the Intel CPUs have advanced performance-wise since Nehalem. Also the non-enthusiast CPUs have been 4-core since... 2006? Come on Intel, make some 8-core or atleast 6-core CPUs that doesn't cost +500$..
Haswell consumer line refresh seems to be 4 cores only, so not quite yet. Maybe next year?
I wonder if the 6-core will be closer in price to the Ivy-E 4-core 4820K or the 6-core 4930K. I was looking at getting an i7 4770K but now I'm not so sure.
There's pretty substantial gaming benefits to be had upgrading from Nehalem.
If a Nehalem is running around 4.0-4.2GHz, it is still pretty damned good though. If one isn't too picky about super smooth game playing or 120Hz, then I can see why one wouldn't upgrade yet.
More like 1.5 cores of this would. Maybe 1 core depending on the clock.
Unknown Soldier
Member
It spanks the shit out of AMD's top end PC CPUs. The Jaguar cores in PS4 aren't even in the same galaxy as the top end PC CPUs.
I own a PS4, BTW.
Zeyphersan
Banned
I shudder to think about DDR4 prices...
The motherboard prices will be prohibitively expensive for a lot of folks. Most likely $220 for a super baseline motherboard, $300 for something decently well-equipped. Throw DDR4 on top of that, and you're looking at $750-900 just for mobo/CPU/memory, assuming one were to go for the 6 core 5820K.
Terbinator
Member
You'd be best going 1150 for all out gaming purposes.
Unless 3 to 4 way SLI/Crossfire enters the picture, then yeah.
The biggest benefit to really high end gaming rigs is that the enthusiast socket has 40 PCI-E lanes, as opposed to the 16 on the consumer socket.
Neat. I'm kinda tempted to get this just to see if it will hold up even against the next-gen (PS5) consoles.
justsomeguy
Member
my i7 920 is still kicking arse and taking names. Amaaazing proc. Don't think i have ever been so attached to a piece of kit.
justsomeguy
Member
what perf gain are we likely to see though? 2-3x the price for 2x the perf and half the power draw would be bearable, for example
The socket 1366 chips where a bit better than the 1156 ones, and also most i7 920s easily hit 4Ghz. You had the 980x too which was 6 core, that still holds its own very much. If your running single GPU setup its probably fine. 980x no issues still.
Also not sure if your graphs are using high end GPUs with low settings, as thiw ill exaggerate the difference due to the GPU usually being the bottlenck in realistic situations using High settings/Resolutions.
Theres also some doubt with the SKUs, it could end up like Bloomfield with all models 6 Core, and the Extreme as 8 core. Hope not. Pricing will probably stay similar to current Ivy-E chips. Ill assume TDP will not drop due to the addition of cores.