Core i7 "Haswell-E" Engineering Sample Pictured

Andrew Moore · 13 Dec 2013 at 15:35

For the time being there is..
http://ark.intel.com/products/77912/

39 max multi, 125x strap supported.

Just saying

krnsniper · 13 Dec 2013 at 16:04

Next upgrade SORTED.

MooMoo444 · 13 Dec 2013 at 16:07

Andrew Moore said:
For the time being there is..
http://ark.intel.com/products/77912/

39 max multi, 125x strap supported.

Just saying

4.87ghz, that'll do donkey, that'll do.

Alkalinepro5 · 13 Dec 2013 at 16:31

This old Phenom II will just have to hang in there a little longer!

alex_123_fra · 13 Dec 2013 at 16:41

Can't wait. A new system to pair up to 2 or 3 Maxwell cards

sk3lph · 13 Dec 2013 at 16:48

Finally, a chip that may mean an upgrade from my i7 920.

Combat Fighter · 13 Dec 2013 at 17:27

sk3lph said:
Finally, a chip that may mean an upgrade from my i7 920.

In the same boat as you.

Does sound tasty I have to say.

humbug · 14 Dec 2013 at 00:27

How much will it be? Ask this guy...

wildman · 14 Dec 2013 at 00:41

How much more performance increase would you see in real world applications / games over Ivy-E. I am guessing that by the time this comes out there won't be that many games coded to take full advantage of 8 physical cores.

For workstations running lots of Virtual machines I would take a punt that this would be king. I was holding out on my 2500K for another cycle with the idea of maybe going to Has-E but I am thinking maybe I'll just go Ivy-E now ? Also whats the likleyhood of the IHS being soldered. Haswells run hot already and if you are doubling up on the core count I can't imagine this running that cool even under water ??

Stas823 · 14 Dec 2013 at 02:27

Really hoping that its not priced £600+ for a k version

Krisali · 14 Dec 2013 at 05:26

When this comes out = time to upgrade

Bart_Hunt · 14 Dec 2013 at 06:16

Considering all the goodies packed in this chip, it will probably cost as much as Titans did on release.

tbh · 14 Dec 2013 at 06:55

Martini1991 said:
1st Desktop 8 core CPU.

Good to see desktop PCs will finally catch-up with games consoles and mobile phones

Dave2150 · 14 Dec 2013 at 08:28

Finally, a worthwhile upgrade from my 6 year old I7 920

So glad I didn't waste money on a 4770k now.

Gizmowithatt · 14 Dec 2013 at 11:25

Dave2150 said:
Finally, a worthwhile upgrade from my 6 year old I7 920

So glad I didn't waste money on a 4770k now.

Snap

sekoj · 14 Dec 2013 at 18:18

Looks like I will be joining the i7 920 -> Haswell-E club that seems to forming here

Perfect_Chaos · 14 Dec 2013 at 22:07

Same here most likely, anyone know if the 8 core one will be an expensive Extreme Edition only or is it coming in a K version also? The usual for most cores is having an Extreme chip only, i expected the most wanted version would be the 6 core.

ubersonic · 15 Dec 2013 at 01:59

Boomstick777 said:
This is more like it, 8 cores and DDR4 yes plz.

8 cores will be cool, but what exactly are you planning to do that is going to bottleneck four channels of DDR3? O.o

Boomstick777 said:
That's an engineering sample though, guessing retail will see 3.4ghz > 4.0ghz turbo on the 5960X and probably 3.3ghz > 3.9ghz on the 5930K.

Finally a worthy upgrade, I hope the 5930K is also an 8 core, and the 5820K is a 6 core.

If the 5930K is an 8core than I'm going 5930K + 16GB / 32GB DDR4. Plenty of time to save up lol.

So you think the 5930K might be an 8 core CPU with a 3.9GHz turbo based on Haswell? Wouldn't that basically basically be two 4770K's tied together (AKA a supernova melting into a volcano

).

ubersonic · 15 Dec 2013 at 02:05

double post.

MattBrisbane · 15 Dec 2013 at 02:15

sk3lph said:
Finally, a chip that may mean an upgrade from my i7 920.

My thoughts exactly. What a legendary chip the i7 920 has been.