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Haswell -E Core i7-5960X, 5930K, 5820K specifications

This may be an idiotic question.

Looking to upgrade my i7 950, and have been considering something Devil's Canyon related.

Would it be much better to wait for something from this line?
 
Drojman said:
This may be an idiotic question.

Looking to upgrade my i7 950, and have been considering something Devil's Canyon related.

Would it be much better to wait for something from this line?
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I'm in a similar situation to you as running an i7 950 (@3.6Ghz) in a HTPC case with an X58 sabertooth now since 2010

Going to decide on whether i go Z97/DC or X99/Haswell-E when once they are both released
 
I'm gonna wait to see what boards officially support 3000mhz+ ram because i only see one that supports up to 2800mhz and another at 2666mhz. Hopefully there's boards that do support higher speeds at first.
 
al4x said:
It's either Haswell E or stick for me

Another I7920 user
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I think the upgrade from an i7 920 will be worth it for me. Updated features like USB 3.0 (and lots of them), loads of SATA 6GBs ports and hopefully a SATA Express too), increased performance (I doubt it will be huge but should be noticeable), but the big factors for me are reduced heat and power consumption.
 
Gazb said:
I think the upgrade from an i7 920 will be worth it for me. Updated features like USB 3.0 (and lots of them), loads of SATA 6GBs ports and hopefully a SATA Express too), increased performance (I doubt it will be huge but should be noticeable), but the big factors for me are reduced heat and power consumption.
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I'm not to fussed on tdp.. But it leads to temperature so always a plus
There's nothing else out that is worth the outlay.
Yes everything is better.. But not by much

Wait and see for me.
6-8 cores would be very useful if single core is also decent
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
I'm gonna wait to see what boards officially support 3000mhz+ ram because i only see one that supports up to 2800mhz and another at 2666mhz. Hopefully there's boards that do support higher speeds at first.
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Given that at least a couple of 3200Mhz DDR4 modules were shown, I doubt they'd be planning to release those in a few months if no motherboards would support them.
 
pmc25 said:
Given that at least a couple of 3200Mhz DDR4 modules were shown, I doubt they'd be planning to release those in a few months if no motherboards would support them.
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DDR4 is apparently going to top out at 4266mhz in the future, so any early boards that can support at least not far from that would be nice if they can do that.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
Still not sure why they left out Sata express though. I assumed that will be able to be had with an add-in card, but now i'm not so sure.. Is that possible or is it something that already needs to be on the motherboard?

If it can be added in then there's no worries about not being pretty future proof storage speed wise. That is my only niggle with x99.

Seems 3000mhz memory has already been revealed too.
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It's gotta have this. Would make no sense not too.
 
I believe the reason mainboard manufacturers leave SATAe out is due to their not being any devices able to take advantage of it yet. M.2 has which is why you will most likely see that more common. Ok, for futureproofing they should add it, but really no need yet.
 
SATA 3 and 3.1 allow for SSDs to do 600MB/s.

3.2 allows for 1969MB/s

Suery this is a very important thing as most SSDs do around 500MB/s and are maxing out SATA2 and z97 supports SATA 3.2 so for the high end chipset not to support it would put me off buying one.

Samsung have some drives out that are faster than 600MB/s already.

This Anandtech article suggests it will have it.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7874/haswelle-8-cores-x99-ddr4
I will wait to see some other manufacrurers offerings.
 
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Can you find an SSD that supports 16gbit ? I can only find an m.2 which is 10gbit

I am all for putting on sata 3.2, satae and m.2 but manufacturers wont
 
I don't think there are any that fast but it depends what's out when I build my new PC. Which won't be until early next year when the new nVidia cards are out. So plenty of time.
 
Pasted from another site about an MSI board:

"You can also see that we've got four PCIe x16 slots, two PCIe x4 slots, M.2, SATA Express and SATA III slots along with 12 USB 3.0 ports and Gigabit networking via the I218-V chip. As for MSI specific features you can see Military Class 4 and OC Genie 4 is being offered on the model."

But the board only officially supports up to 2666mhz DDR4, whether that really matters or not for most things i'm not completely sure, but it's got everything else anyone would want like Sata express.

Looks like a pretty future proof board except for the limit on the ram speed of course.
 
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I am planning to upgrade to a Haswell-E setup because for
months now I have been getting really tired and bored of
the current setup I have in my sig.

In the next month or so I plan to start saving up for the
5930K along with a decent motherboard and memory for
it and a new CPU heatsink and Fan and of course a new
case to put it all in.

Hopefully I will be able to use most of my existing hardware
on the new setup like the PSU and Graphics Card I have got
just to get the new system build, up and running and until I
can afford to upgrade some of those components as well.

The rest of the hardware components needed like the
Sound Card, Hard Drives and DVD/Blu-ray Drive etc, I should
be able to transfer from my old setup therefore saving me
money and longer time saving up.
 
Look at all the 1366 users in here!

I will only swap out my 'bundle'

Really like my case
Have gpus
Have psu have ssds

Will only be cpu, my, ram and cooler I'm changing
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
Pasted from another site about an MSI board:

"You can also see that we've got four PCIe x16 slots, two PCIe x4 slots, M.2, SATA Express and SATA III slots along with 12 USB 3.0 ports and Gigabit networking via the I218-V chip. As for MSI specific features you can see Military Class 4 and OC Genie 4 is being offered on the model."

But the board only officially supports up to 2666mhz DDR4, whether that really matters or not for most things i'm not completely sure, but it's got everything else anyone would want like Sata express.

Looks like a pretty future proof board except for the limit on the ram speed of course.
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Thats jam packed with nice connections.

What MSI board is that ?
 
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