How many of you are going to get a Broadwell-E CPU?

[jigger]

Cool so basically £300 if you're lucky or nearer £350 for the foreseeable future.

I think so. It's the only upgrade that makes any kind of sense for many people, so I think the 5820k will continue to sell reasonably well. The only way I could see that changing and the 5820 dropping is if Broadwell-E is an overclocking champ.

 

[JLarks]

Maybe in about 4 years time once they drop down to sub £300 prices. Need to actually upgrade to the X99 platform first though!

 

[jigger]

I'm holding off for AM4. I'll buy a highend AM4 board and Bristol Ridge APU then take a look at Zen when it's out.

AM4 seems to offer the best of all the Intel chipsets on one socket.

 

[Caracus2k]

Indeed, but my point still stands. Broadwell-e won't be any improvement over Haswell-e.

The 5820k in terms of price/performance is probably the bargain of the century in CPU land (or at least it was till the prices started creeping up again)...

Your post implied that broadwell-e would use another chipset. Given the confusion people sometimes have over chipsets and cpu's on this forum this is important

why act like you surprised ?

its obvious how they will be its not changed in last 5 plus years so why would there be a sudden leap now ?.

you will get probably 200-400mhz more at best and they will just replace the current line up.

same with gpus. drip fed for profit.

I'm clearly not surprised - look at my posting history I have been saying for a long time that broadwell-e wont offer much over haswell-e...

 

[Telecaster]

They seem to be going down the AMD line of "herp derp moar corez"...

I'd rather see them bring out a true enthusiast grade, blazing 4c/8t mainstream CPU than yet another pointless overkill £1k CPU that nobody needs.

 

[colinmcr]

I think some guys who do a lot of BOINC number crunching might be tempted although it'll be a silly price no doubt.

 

[kylew_is_back]

Then you'll be playing right into their game.

There will always be people who want the 'best'. Realistically speaking, a 6 core will perform just as well as 8/10core for gaming/ real world performance i.e human down time between tasks. By introducing a 10 core, they are simply squeezing more money out of the people with too much/ too little wisdom.

Also the DX12 will dramatically reduce the cpu overhead, so even cpu's like an i3( 2cores 4 threads) will probably perform close to that 10 core cpu because both will became GPU bound.

 

[AllBodies]

Also the DX12 will dramatically reduce the cpu overhead, so even cpu's like an i3( 2cores 4 threads) will probably perform close to that 10 core cpu because both will became GPU bound.

...Or games will start using the new CPU power given back by DX12, and then we'll return to the current situation.

 

[Telecaster]

I think some guys who do a lot of BOINC number crunching might be tempted although it'll be a silly price no doubt.

If there's plenty of people out there that need threads, why aren't they all buying xeons?

 

[kylew_is_back]

...Or games will start using the new CPU power given back by DX12, and then we'll return to the current situation.

True, but given the fact that most games are made with the lowest common denominator(“consoles”) in mind.....

It looks like that in the next years games will simply require very little from the CPU, and only rely heavily on the GPU.

 

[Jonny L]

True, but given the fact that most games are made with the lowest common denominator(“consoles”) in mind.....

It looks like that in the next years games will simply require very little from the CPU, and only rely heavily on the GPU.

I would like to think that with the improvements in DX12 a number of games will start to take advantage of all of the resources available to them.

 

[jigger]

I would like to think Microsofts main objective with DX12 wasn't the XboxOne. We can all dream though...

 

[shamus21]

I would like to think that with the improvements in DX12 a number of games will start to take advantage of all of the resources available to them.

I use to think that but then I woke up.

 

[LambChop]

Nope, wont move from my 5930k just yet.

 

[Ayahuasca]

It would be nice to see them use the CPU more in DX12 to spread the load across all cores and put more effects and better AI into games but I just can't see it, as long as 4 cores are the mainstream, this is what games will be designed for.

 

[Mauller]

It would be nice to see them use the CPU more in DX12 to spread the load across all cores and put more effects and better AI into games but I just can't see it, as long as 4 cores are the mainstream, this is what games will be designed for.

AOTS already does this, it will scale beyond 6 cores if you give it more. It is pretty much a necessity to have 6 or more cores to take full advantage of high end mGPU in AOTS.

 

[sam77]

Nope, wont move from my 5930k just yet.

Yeah, of course not... You don't need to upgrade every single generation.

 

[LambChop]

Yeah, of course not... You don't need to upgrade every single generation.

You dont NEED to but some may, I simply answered the question

How many of you are going to get a Broadwell-E CPU?

 

[DragonQ]

The few times I see my FPS dip below 60 in certain games it's due to my GPU, and my system doesn't feel slow in any other way, so no need for me.

 

[jigger]

Assuming the price is around £100 per core, a motherboard costs £200, £180 32GB, £80 for an OS and £100 for cooling. I would consider one if it offered 20% more performance per core and generally overclocked a few hundred Mhz more than Haswell-E. That would be the minimum I would be looking for really.