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Broadwell-K i7 5775C/i5 5675C

I wish they'd just do away with the igpu tbh. Particularly on the likes of the i5 4690/i7 4790k type chips. I doubt anyone who owns such a chip even uses it. Even an uber cheap discreet gpu is more useful. And I suspect most of us who own such chips aren't short of a gpu or two.
 
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.
 
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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.

I'm not sure what you're saying here spud. I wrote *775 is higher in it's own stack than *700. I think your the one who's reaching for something to criticize :p

It's placed just below Haswell -E in the performance line. This may mean something, it may not. I'm just pointing it out, no need for people to get excited :D

Compared the 4770R 6MB Cache 65W TDP to the 4770K 8MB Cache 84W TDP to show that the chip can still perform. So an unlocked i7 5775C should still have good performance.

(You missed a few '5' CPU's out of your list there mate) ;)

All hope is not lost for desktop Broadwell. Take it easy :)
 
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.
 
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.

Yeah tbh unless people are using Mini-ITX / small form factor I can't see any reason to use the mainstream stuff. 5820K + X99 is more value / performance even over the upcoming stuff and priced similar.

For small system builds though, especially when using IGPU Broadwell / Skylake make sense. i7 5775C has Iris Pro so has that advantage over the 6700K's which has HD 5000 Intel graphics I believe? We haven't seen how the 64mb/128mb L4 cache will effect CPU performance yet. Although i7 5775C has less L3 cache the 64mb/128mb L4 cache may more than make up for it.

Another advantage I could think of Broadwell / Skylake is that with DirectX 12 you can use your IGPU for some tasks in sync with your main GPU. In that scenario having on board graphics might be advantageous.
 
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.
 
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.

Yeah makes sense, by then we should have i7 6820K (X99) and should know more about AMD's Zen and Intel's Cannonlake. Those could give a better upgrade. DDR4 prices should be even better as well.
 
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.
 
Why specifically should 5ghz be the figure required? It's just a number.

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).
 
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.

The older Iris Pro is already faster than the A10 7850K so this newer Broadwell Iris Pro should cement that lead even further. Ideal for a build with no dedicated GPU.

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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.

Apparently the L4 cache is also used by CPU not just GPU. So having that there may be beneficial VS older Intel graphics which I alwyas just turned off in motherboard.

We need to see benchmarks / reviews to see how this L4 Cache comes into play in CPU tasks.
 
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).

That's quite an explanation and seems to be clutching at straws lol.

It still doesn't mean hitting 5ghz magically gives you a load of extra performance than 4.9ghz.

It can help with marketing I agree as 5ghz boost looks better than 4.9ghz boost on paper.
 
Stupid Q, been out of the desktop PC for a while, can you have automatic graphics switching on Windows?

So on desktop discrete card is idle and iGPU takes over, but when playing a game iGPU idles and the discrete card takes over?
 
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