Haswell-E, X99 & DDR4 in June ?

[LambChop]

Some leaked info...

http://wccftech.com/intel-haswelle-x99-chipset-wellsburg-details-leaked-ddr4/

Was about to take the Haswell plunge, but now glad I waited.

 

[tbyeah]

Well Haswell-E will cost the earth, so if you were looking say at an i5, go for it as this will be out of your price range.

 

[cwgk91]

Hate to think how much the ram will cost too

 

[rare]

This will be expensive, but my god, the signature kudos will be immense.

I want!

 

[cwgk91]

8cores/16 virtual does sound awesome...

 

[Rasch]

Oh god need to stack up some cash for late summer then

 

[Boomstick777]

Twas already posted here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18586176, the motherboard section gets no love

 

[GeLo]

That is good news.

 

[zoomee]

It will feature a maximum memory speed of 2133Mhz per DIMM slot

/not impressed

 

[joeyjojo]

/not impressed

2.133 GHz is surprisingly low, especially as:

At a recent MemCon conference in Tokyo, Japan, Bill Gervasi, vice president of engineering at US Modular and a member of the JEDEC board of directors, revealed that the target effective clock-speeds for DDR4 memory would be 2133MHz - 4266MHz, an increase from previously discussed frequencies. Apparently, JEDEC and memory manufacturers decided that the progress of DDR3 leaves no space for DDR4 data rates below 2133Mb/s.

That was 3.5 years ago mind http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory...ion_DDR4_Memory_to_Reach_4_266GHz_Report.html

Hopefully the motherboard manufacturers can put in some "OC" slots.

 

[David Bisset]

Official ram speeds and what it'll do can be wildly different - were the original i7 920s on 1366 not only officially rated for up to 1066MHz on RAM?

 

[Yaayuh!]

Official ram speeds and what it'll do can be wildly different - were the original i7 920s on 1366 not only officially rated for up to 1066MHz on RAM?

Correct.

2133MHz is fine, we're only talking about the initial "officially rated" memory speeds here.

 

[cwgk91]

But I thought apart from lower voltages, the point of DDR4 was to give higher speeds? Seems odd to 'officially' only support it up to what isn't even the highest supported on DDR3

 

[Uncle_Gravy]

Hate to think how much the ram will cost too

Used to remember a time when DDR3 was cheap

 

[JonSmith]

Why do we need DDR4 anyway? I've not heard of RAM bottlenecks with DDR3 and some of those processors will have what, 30MB of L3 cache on them? It's like RDIMMs all over again

 

[smilertoo]

DDR3 is still cheap if you can remember paying £100+ for 4mb.

 

[cainer]

DDR3 is still cheap if you can remember paying £100+ for 4mb.

i payed £190 for 6gb (3x2gb) of 1600mhz Corsair tri channel early in 2010

 

[Freddie1980]

Great, here's waiting for another Intel CPU with a 5% performance improvement, pointless DDR4, a new platform they will offer little in the way of new technologies and innovation, reduced overclocking potential and a sky high premiums.

 

[Yaayuh!]

But I thought apart from lower voltages, the point of DDR4 was to give higher speeds? Seems odd to 'officially' only support it up to what isn't even the highest supported on DDR3

Haswell 4770K - Memory Types DDR3-1333/1600
http://ark.intel.com/products/75123/intel-core-i7-4770k-processor-8m-cache-up-to-3_90-ghz

2133 as a base level is a significant increase, also, it's a new form of RAM, it needs time to develop.
It's pointless anyway because we'll just be slapping 2400-2666MHz RAM (when available) in there anyway.

 

[zoomee]

Great, here's waiting for another Intel CPU with a 5% performance improvement, pointless DDR4, a new platform they will offer little in the way of new technologies and innovation, reduced overclocking potential and a sky high premiums.

This ^^

without competition intel will just continue to milk the consumer for every minuscule change. Long gone are the huge jumps in performance we used to see