Intel Broadwell-E Scheduled For Launch in Q1 2016 – Will Feature 8 and 6 Core SKUs, Retaining Suppor

Boomstick777 · 13 Sep 2015 at 13:10

Joe! said:
What voltage are you putting through for 4.6GHz?

CPU ~ 1.325V.
VRING ~ 1.2V.

Simon Belmont · 13 Sep 2015 at 17:31

I'll wait for skylake E.

brit~XR · 13 Sep 2015 at 17:54

Boomstick777 said:
CPU ~ 1.325V.
VRING ~ 1.2V.

Noob question but what is VRING? I dont see this on my asus rampage or im blind

setter · 13 Sep 2015 at 18:12

If its like standard haswell on Asus X99 boards, ring is known as cache.

8 Pack · 13 Sep 2015 at 18:13

Lord_ZED said:
My HW-E is very poor clocker and cant do 125 strap no matter what, so im stuck with 2666mhz on memory at lest i spend whole weekend on getting timings down as much as possible.
Only reason for me to jump in to BW-E is that I lost silicon lottery :/

Maybe they will clock better ?? Can only hope If it would do 4.6@125 strap i would pay for an upgrade.
Atm my setup in single thread is just TINY bit faster than my sandy@5ghz was

All can do 125 strap. Thats Bios not the CPU. Which Gaming 7 board?? MSI???

andybird123 · 13 Sep 2015 at 18:16

setter said:
If its like standard haswell on Asus X99 boards, ring is known as cache.

Yep.

Andy7 · 13 Sep 2015 at 18:35

Orangey said:
Why would he be happy with 4.5 when he has tasted 5.0?

He tasted 5.0Ghz on a Sandy Bridge quad core chip. The six core 5820k @ 4.5Ghz obliterates the Sandy Bridge chip clocked at 5.0Ghz

Orangey · 13 Sep 2015 at 18:41

Andy7 said:
He tasted 5.0Ghz on a Sandy Bridge quad core chip. The six core 5820k @ 4.5Ghz obliterates the Sandy Bridge chip clocked at 5.0Ghz

Oh literal Andy.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Sep 2015 at 18:58

Isn't HW-E quad channel,so why are people worried about memory overclocks??

Silent_Scone · 13 Sep 2015 at 19:31

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Isn't HW-E quad channel,so why are people worried about memory overclocks??

Care to elaborate? Are you saying people buying enthusiasts platforms shouldn't want to push memory frequency / latency? Don't understand...

tyler_jrb · 13 Sep 2015 at 19:48

Boomstick777 said:
Yeah I would say about £500, depending on how well the mid tier £500 new chip performs. Hopefully get about £300 - £350 for my 5930K when it's time to switch to Broadwell.

You will still get a great price for the 5930k, most CPUs in the last 3 years are still expensive. The 6930k will bring its price down a little but look at the price compared with 5930k-4930k and 3930k.

I might upgrade mine if it's worth it I.e it has 8 cores and has good overclocks and temperatures.

brit~XR · 13 Sep 2015 at 19:55

setter said:
If its like standard haswell on Asus X99 boards, ring is known as cache.

Ok thanks

shamus21 · 13 Sep 2015 at 22:15

Out of interest will Intel be doing a X99 chipset refresh for Broadwell-E.

Jokester · 13 Sep 2015 at 22:25

Would be surprised if Intel canabalise sales of the Extreme edition by releasing a 8 core in the mid tier.

Joe! · 13 Sep 2015 at 22:42

shamus21 said:
Out of interest will Intel be doing a X99 chipset refresh for Broadwell-E.

X79 lasted for two generations without a refresh so I doubt it.

I'm with everyone else though, a 6930k 8 core would make me a very happy customer, I doubt I'd go for a 6960x if it's the only 8 core though.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Sep 2015 at 02:35

Silent_Scone said:
Care to elaborate? Are you saying people buying enthusiasts platforms shouldn't want to push memory frequency / latency? Don't understand...

Umm,the whole point of increasing clockspeed is to improve memory bandwidth,so even if X99 chips can only run RAM at a lower clockspeed than say the socket 1151 ones when using DDR4,the latter is still going to have less available bandwidth anyway since its only dual channel. Plus the whole X99 platform can simply run far more RAM too and AFAIK Skylake does not support ECC Ram for consumer versions,whereas Haswell-E does and probably Broadwell-E,so it makes the memory controller more complex,hence no wonder Skylake can be pushed higher.

Perfect_Chaos · 14 Sep 2015 at 07:39

Personally for me Broadwell-e will probably not be worth upgrading to and neither will Skylake-e, I think 10% or less faster is not worth replacing the whole motherboard & cpu for, to me at least.I've already had x99 some months now and the upgrade was worth it over my old x58 system. The board has all the new technologies that will be needed for some years yet.

I could probably see me keeping this x99 setup for 3 years minimum no problem, even then I doubt there will be CPU's approaching 20% faster than the current ones.

Next for me will be something that is actually a large noticeable increase in performance, and at this rate that could very well be 4-5 years from now. In the meantime I think I will just buy/sell a new high end GPU every 1-2 years.

I guess that's the good thing about buying upper mid-end/high end hardware, it certainly lasts a long time if you want it to, at least these days it does anyway

shamus21 · 14 Sep 2015 at 20:21

Perfect_Chaos said:
Personally for me Broadwell-e will probably not be worth upgrading to and neither will Skylake-e, I think 10% or less faster is not worth replacing the whole motherboard & cpu for, to me at least.I've already had x99 some months now and the upgrade was worth it over my old x58 system. The board has all the new technologies that will be needed for some years yet.

I could probably see me keeping this x99 setup for 3 years minimum no problem, even then I doubt there will be CPU's approaching 20% faster than the current ones.

Next for me will be something that is actually a large noticeable increase in performance, and at this rate that could very well be 4-5 years from now. In the meantime I think I will just buy/sell a new high end GPU every 1-2 years.

I guess that's the good thing about buying upper mid-end/high end hardware, it certainly lasts a long time if you want it to, at least these days it does anyway

Unfortunately just no competition in the CPU arena.

Silent_Scone · 14 Sep 2015 at 22:55

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Umm,the whole point of increasing clockspeed is to improve memory bandwidth,so even if X99 chips can only run RAM at a lower clockspeed than say the socket 1151 ones when using DDR4,the latter is still going to have less available bandwidth anyway since its only dual channel. Plus the whole X99 platform can simply run far more RAM too and AFAIK Skylake does not support ECC Ram for consumer versions,whereas Haswell-E does and probably Broadwell-E,so it makes the memory controller more complex,hence no wonder Skylake can be pushed higher.

lol what the hell are you talking about. Broadwell-E isn't dual channel, and last time I checked higher frequencies and lower latency are always a bonus...

nashathedog · 14 Sep 2015 at 23:18

shamus21 said:
Well at least there is an upgrade path for X99 MB you never know with Intel. I just hope the overall quality of Broadwell-E is more consistent you could pick up some really poor clockers with Haswell-E.

There was an upgrade path for my Z97 board when I got it too but the move from Haswell to Broadwell was a non starter. No improvement what so ever.

Silent_Scone said:
lol what the hell are you talking about. Broadwell-E isn't dual channel, and last time I checked higher frequencies and lower latency are always a bonus...

He said the latter meaning the 1151 chips.