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Exclusive: Intel CEO promises Broadwell PCs on shelves for holidays

'Haswell refresh' are the locked parts that are compatible with Z87 chipset, and replace the older chips at same price point.

'Devil's Canyon' are the unlocked, re-designed parts aimed at overclocking. These chips are rumored to only work on Z97 chipset. Will feature Pentium anniversary overclockable chips, and first 4Ghz - 4.4Ghz Intel CPU.
 
'Haswell refresh' are the refresh of the locked parts.

'Devil's Canyon' are the refresh of the unlocked parts aimed at overclocking. Plus the Anniversary edition Pentium.

...so Devil's Canyon is part of the haswell refresh as far as we're concerned.

Edit: Freddie I love your optimism :)
 
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'Intel CEO promises Broadwell CPU's will all be unlocked and overclockable, have more CPU cores as standard and soldered heat spreaders' <---Am I asking for too much here?
 
The slides for the devil's canyon (and z97) announcements say that devil's canyon is 'Supported by new Intel 9 series chipsets'. Seems pretty clear from that it won't work on z87 (unless mobo manufacturers have some bios voodoo on the go ready for June).
 
It might well not work on older chipsets, I suspect not... but 'Supported by new Intel 9 series chipsets' doesn't mean not supported by any other chipsets - promotional slides always feature stuff like this to highlight things that they want to cross-sell or just cause someone in marketing heard it and didn't understand or wanted users to get confused.

It's the standard advertising way... like saying 'this milk is asbestos free' ... by implication, any milk that doesn't say it must have asbestos in it. Doesn't make it true! I hate advertising :(
 
^^ Agreed, it may be that in a while older Z87 could get a bios that will let 'Devil's Canyon' run on the older chipset. No one knows for sure at this point. Rumors saying that it will only work on Z97, hopefully this isn't the case though.

jh30uk said:
PIA as my penis wants to build a new PC.
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Haha, I was determined to wait until next year, but.. Keep thinking a decent Z97 would be a good base for Broadwell so could build one now lol. Looking at cases as well. Mine is 6 years old :p

Thinking,

Coolermaster CM690 III
ASUS Maximus Ranger Z97
4770K / 4790K

Must stop looking...
 
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BTW, the "penis" was a joke towards that thread someone made in Gen Hardware section last week, not sure if it was a typo or he meant his friend is a penis lol.
 
Excellent. I skipped Haswell so Broadwell it is for me.

A nice Z97 ITX board and quad core CPU (5670K?).
 
intel have confused me.

I thought devils canyon was just haswell but better binned chips so to speak. and better build quality for overclocking. But wasnt actually a refresh.

Broadwell would become the haswell successor in the "mainstream line"

Haswell - E is the "Enthusiast" platform on the X series chipset?
 
jakspyder said:
I thought devils canyon was just haswell but better binned chips so to speak. and better build quality for overclocking. But wasnt actually a refresh.
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Depends what you mean by 'refresh' I think. AFAIK there's no change to the silicon, but the 'new' line does seem to be 100MHz faster than the old. Whether there have been manufacturing improvements and whether the now soldered heat spreader will have any effect on overclocking is yet to be seen.

But I do hope it does ^^
 
Have not read anywhere its back to solder and if it is (hopefully) you would think they would shout about it, but it simply says "improved TIM" or words to that effect.
 
Hmm, you may be right actually. Google says a few sites and forums are speculating about solder, but the official statements are indeed just improved TIM :/

Still, better than nothing, right? ^^;
 
Hopefully that is for the refresh Haswell (non K series) not Devils Canyon Haswells (K series), if not delid as before will sort it.
 
jh30uk said:
Hopefully that is for the refresh Haswell (non K series) not Devils Canyon Haswells (K series), if not delid as before will sort it.
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Or theyve started using cool labs paste, a slimmer ihs and less of the black adhesive. After watching a few delidding videos, the amount of adhesive they use is ridiculous.
 
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