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Broadwell EOL?
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The Broadwell-C CPU's are intended for a very niche market - those who will use it without a dedicated graphics card. As such, availability and interested in the product will be very low. A 4790k is a far superior CPU for those who'll be running it with a GPU.
As you said, Skylake is here quite soon - so this is no issue
As you said, Skylake is here quite soon - so this is no issue
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Seems a bit crazy to EOL it already, I mean who actually has one?
Like a mug I bought in to z97 luckily I only bought a g3258 and that cheap gigabyte board.I just sourced an old p55 1156 board so am going back to my i5 750 and wait until there's a good intel 6 core cpu.Might keep the z97 board until there's a cheapo 4790k or 4690k going though.
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Motherboard features is pretty much the only reason 99% of people would want to upgrade from Nehalem or newer right now.
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The Broadwell-C CPU's are intended for a very niche market - those who will use it without a dedicated graphics card. As such, availability and interested in the product will be very low. A 4790k is a far superior CPU for those who'll be running it with a GPU.
As you said, Skylake is here quite soon - so this is no issue
The niche market Broadwell-C is supposed to address is the stock market, or more importantly all those promises Intel made to stop share prices dropping. Like it's only delayed by a quarter, it's definitely coming... every 6 months they pushed it back 3 a quarter(same with 14nm really) start 2 years ago roughly. Broadwell got a desktop release because they'd promised it repeatedly and promised their weren't problems and had they not released it then a lot of things they stated in investor conference calls would have ended up being lies and they could have been hit by huge fines and lawsuits.
It costs less to launch a product they don't want to sell than admitting they'd been lying about how fine Broadwell was and 14/10nm process nodes not having issues. That is another key and likely more important part of it. Broadwell had problems because 14nm did, and Intel has been talking very loudly for 3 years about how fine 14nm is and how 10nm is on target, even though neither are true. Admitting properly the Broadwell was pretty much dead is admitting the process is iffy which would cast doubt on 10nm. Truth be damned, keeping stock prices stable is all that matters.
They could say a year ago Broadwell for desktop is cancelled and face calls on why and then people losing confidence, or fake it out for a year then spin it as why launch Broadwell now when we have Skylake, we can't do it becomes it's better for the customer to go with Skylake.