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They haven't.
Spot the odd one out:
2500k, 2600k, 2700k, 3770k, 4770k, 4790k, 5775C, 6700k
You're reaching (for a change) especially reading into it's place on the list lol.
Until we see how much performance the eDRAM adds to the party for Skylake then we're all just guessing.
Hmmm...I think it's pretty clear that people who bought a Z97 based system with a 4690k/4790K will have absolutely no reason to 'upgrade' to Broadwell at all and would be better served waiting until Skylake lands with the additional expense of a new motherboard , at least my 2400mhz DDR3 will still be usable though.
Annoying really as my plan was to 'upgrade' my 4690k with a 5775k, but that now looks like a waste of time TBH.
Oh well, it would have been an upgrade just for the sake of it TBH, even GTA V doesn't need the HT (which I thought it would do), so keeping my 4690 will be more than good enough for another 6mths or so, probably won't bother until early 2016 TBH.
Why specifically should 5ghz be the figure required? It's just a number.
But they're 65w TDP so where is the performance coming from?
Personally I'm hoping the igp portion is significantly faster than a 7850k, I'm dying to make a tiny itx gaming box but the low profile 750 ti isn't viable due to it's stupid two slot design and the r7 250 isn't quick enough for decent 1080p.
Could they not just create versions with and without an iGPU or is that too much to ask.
Doesn't the iGPU take up the majority of the chip on the newer CPU's?
What's worse is I can't even fully disable the iGPU on my 3770k.
5GHz is a special number because it's the speed the final Pentium 4 chips were supposed to be. Obviously that never happened as Netburst proved to be a dead end design and Intel were forced to move to dual core with it while they frantically speed evolved the Pentium III into the Core2. But 5GHz was drummed into people as a magic number and for many of us it still holds a special meaning (hence why AMD went to great lengths to launch a CPU that hits 5GHz, on at least one core, when it isn't overheating).