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What can gamers expect from Intel in 2014?

herdi3

herdi3

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Just wondering, I have a 2500k OC 4.4GHz and so far not felt the need to upgrade as I feel it's an awesome CPU.

However, the talk is of a new gen of Intel CPU coming this year; what can we gamers expect? Will they be aiming for the casual/tablet crowed? Any overclocking potential?

Prices? (I don't want to be spending £300+ on my next CPU)


Will I finally need to upgrade from my beloved i5-2500k?

My main interest will be to upgrade based on the requirements of Star Citizen later in the year (hopefully!)

(I've not really kept up with this stuff in recent times)
 
I wonder if its going to be worth waiting for HW-E rather than getting the current HW :/ my rig is broken right now and plan to replace my mobo and cpu.

Shall I wait or upgrade now and get the current HW :/

Price range seems not affordable for HW-E :/ seen some posts here already.
 
With Mantle coming to Star Citizen and other games in the future, your current CPU will be plenty fast enough. High end CPUs will become irrelevant for gaming when all the legacy DirectX crap disappears.
 
I wouldn't bet too much on that - it would free up the CPU a bit... to be used by other features like more complex AI.
 
Rroff said:
I wouldn't bet too much on that - it would free up the CPU a bit... to be used by other features like more complex AI.
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Haha yea this!

IF Mantle does get rolling and finds its way into most games then more likely the devs will use the extra cpu horse power which has been freed up for other things such as more complex AI.
 
lol Mantle has crept into here also? :) i recently bought a 4770k and mobo to upgrade from my i5 2500k @4.4ghz, main reason was i felt like an upgrade and fancied a haswell setup, predicting slightly smoother results but not much overall difference if im honest. Bit better performance where its catered for also i imagine.
 
I don't intend upgrading my 2500k until Skylake, even my GPU can wait for the next gen of AMD cards. The one thing these kind of threads always forget to mention is the resolution being used, makes a huge difference. I think I'd wait on the CPU and just look at GPU upgrades for a while.
 
Intel is refreshing Haswell in Q3 or Q4 I believe and from the looks of it, It will be maybe 5-10% faster so it really isn't worth it, Broadwell and Skylake is where it's at, Same goes for this years GPU's, 2015 is where the hardware will start to become interesting again :)
 
Haswell-E probably won't see 2014.

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/3...-q3?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Consumer products coming next year

Intel is apparently planning to add support for DDR4 memory to its upcoming high-end platforms from the third quarter of the year onwards. DDR4 support is expected to appear on upcoming Grantley Xeons, based on the Haswell architecture.
However, consumers will have to wait a bit longer. DDR4 support on consumer platforms is expected 12 to 18 months from now, PC World reports. Although the focus in on performance, DDR4 should also deliver superior power efficiency. DDR4 can provide power savings of about 35 percent and a 50 percent boost in bandwidth.

This would make it ideal for mobile devices, but they will be the last to get it. In fact, mobile devices are currently transitioning from LPDDR2 to LPDDR3 and JEDEC is still developing the low-power DDR4 spec. The relatively high price of DDR4 will relegate it to high-end platform for the first few quarters, or even years. Analysts believe DDR4 will be about 30 percent more expensive than DDR3, but the difference should drop to about 10 percent in 2015.
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Dicehunter said:
Intel is refreshing Haswell in Q3 or Q4 I believe and from the looks of it, It will be maybe 5-10% faster so it really isn't worth it, Broadwell and Skylake is where it's at, Same goes for this years GPU's, 2015 is where the hardware will start to become interesting again :)
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Depending on the refresh, I'd be surprised to see 5%, let alone 10%.
 
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