Cannonlake delayed again, no desktop refresh in 2016

[Hedge]

Can someone explain to me the need for a huge boost in cpu performance? What would you personally gain?

Gaming wise anything above a 2500k is still pretty solid.

Where would anyone notice a difference over the current fastest cpu? I feel the market is slowing because there isn't a real need for it. Out of all the people I game with I don't know anyone who renders / edits videos so there isn't much demand for that.

Gpus I can understand but I don't see the real desire for something special in cpu world because I don't think I'd actually notice a difference in my daily use.

 

[~Mike~]

Not surprised by this.

 

[sam77]

It's much cheaper elsewhere, but here at OCUK it's £60 to £70 more?

Why is that OCUK?

This is one of the many reasons why I don't buy from here any more.

I believe the markup price is 80-100% what it costs OCUK to buy from manufacturer. I do agree that OCUK should make prices more competitive, but I'm sure the amount of sales will do the talking there. If they make more money this way, why should they change? It is a business, after all.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Not much stock elsewhere so ocuk can set the price high as they seem to have plenty, doubt they will be selling many at that price.

 

[Sencha]

No surprise, with no competition whats the point in rushing things out?

On another note, my 4790K is runs everything I need and I havent bothered to overclock it. My CPU has years to go before it becomes slow. I like CPU releases now compare to the late 90's, early 2000's.

Amen

 

[Scougar]

I honestly don't care about Moore's law. Without competition to drive innovation it isn't going to happen anyway.

I'm more interested in them getting multi-core processing sorted out properly in games, and stuff like HSA.

Once all the parallel stuff becomes a common theme then focus back on pushing the single core limits again. Just my opinion anyway.

 

[Boomstick777]

my 4790K is runs everything I need and I havent bothered to overclock it. My CPU has years to go before it becomes slow. I like CPU releases now compare to the late 90's, early 2000's.

I gave my 4790K to my boys. It copes with everything fine. Unless it breaks I can't imagine I'll ever need to change it for em tbh. By the time they would need something faster we might be streaming games etc anyway, and not even need dedicated hardware anymore lol. I can see that happening before Intel release a mainstream CPU that's actually a worthy upgrade..

 

[Orangey]

I gave my 4790K to my boys. It copes with everything fine. Unless it breaks I can't imagine I'll ever need to change it for em tbh. By the time they would need something faster we might be streaming games etc anyway, and not even need dedicated hardware anymore lol. I can see that happening before Intel release a mainstream CPU that's actually a worthy upgrade..

What rubbish. Can it raytrace a brand new AAA game? No? Then we still need faster.

And streaming will never replace real gaming.