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AMD Desktop Processors Not Getting DDR4 and a Post Bulldozer Architecture till 2016 – Claims Italian

Mal X said:
yea and that's scary.

i think i might have made a big mistake here, i brought too quickly, i should have got:- ............Intel 4820K 3.70GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011

i've got to test my rig soon, because all these posts are beginning to spook me
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If you'd gone 2011 then your CPU options would have been vast. You can go 4 to 12 core on those. I just bought this for £110.



And I could easily drop in a 12 core if I wanted to pay £1800. Thing is? server CPUs drop in price super, super fast. Give it a year? I'll be able to pick one up for peanuts.
 
mmj_uk said:
Why would you even spend £110 on an 8 core 1.6ghz Xeon? it's slower than most consumer CPU's available for less.
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It's not 1.6ghz, look at the multi. It's 2.3ghz and I'd like you to show me a CPU that's faster for £110.

Intel brand near on all of their ES CPUs at 1.6ghz. I've got a Westmere hex here that's branded that, yet runs at 2.1ghz over all 6 cores.
 
ALXAndy said:
They would any way. Buying into an immature technology usually means it's hardly any faster than the technology before it. DDR4 speeds at launch in mhz are no faster than DDR3, only with crap timings. Whether or not it will actually make a difference remains to be seen. DDR2 signed off at 1066mhz IIRC. DDR3 is signing off at near on 3000mhz. And I doubt we've seen the end of DDR3 yet either.

Triple channel, quad channel, 1600-3000mhz, none of those radically sounding things have made much difference, especially to the gamer.

I would expect Haswell E to be around for a long, long time now. I would also expect (insert large dose of sodium chloride here) Intel to release a 12 core, possibly a 20 core CPU into it without changing again (man can hope eh?) so expect it to change a lot in its 4 year lifetime.
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Again, your naive if you believe that everyone who will buy Haswell-E will upgrade to faster DDR4 as soon as it is available.

There is quite a large userbase who simply upgrade their cpu/motherboard/ram once every few years. I'm one of those users.

If I do get a hex core Haswell-E, with 16-32 gb of ddr4 - I won't be upgrading it for at least 3-5 years. Why is this so hard to understand?

Yes there is another segment of the userbase who will upgrade every 6 months to whatever is the best, though I think most will agree they are in the minority, in the grand scheme of things.
 
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