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Is there any point in Haswell-E ?

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As in the title, is there any point in Haswell-E if mainstream Haswell overclocks as badly as it does. I have seen people reporting anything from 4.3 to 4.8ghz, if this is carried over to Haswell-E the CPUs will be of no use to me. Having seen what 4 Titans can do to a SB-E CPU at those clocks mentioned above, it would make using a Haswell-E CPU totally pointless.

The other thing to remember is the Titans are not the end of the line, when Haswell-E launches graphics cards will be even faster.

Is there any point in Haswell-E ?
 
Never compare Ivybridge to Ivybridge-E or Haswell to Haswell-E, they're so different. Remember that only the very base core design is where it gets the generation name from.

Lack of IGP, more cores, more cache, different IMC. Hell, the IHS may even be soldered.

In addition to this, remember that DDR4 is apparently making it's desktop debut with Haswell-E.
 
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As IB-E is expected to be soldered it makes sense Haswell-E would be too (Soldering Ivy/Haswell is more difficult/costly not impossible, hence why it isn't done on the mainstream chips).
 
Rossi~ said:
Never compare Ivybridge to Ivybridge-E or Haswell to Haswell-E, they're so different. Remember that only the very base core design is where it gets the generation name from.

Lack of IGP, more cores, more cache, different IMC. Hell, the IHS may even be soldered.

In addition to this, remember that DDR4 is apparently making it's desktop debut with Haswell-E.
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ubersonic said:
As IB-E is expected to be soldered it makes sense Haswell-E would be too (Soldering Ivy/Haswell is more difficult/costly not impossible, hence why it isn't done on the mainstream chips).
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So if IB-E turns out to be a winner then there is a good chance Haswell-E will.

Having said that though it would have been nice if intel had tried soldering the 4770k as a lot of people buying these will want to overclock them. Also they will probably cost about the same as a IB-E/Haswell-E quad core.
 
Ivybridge-E will turn out to be a winner, the IMC alone is meant to be pretty damn awesome.

With Haswell-E we'll probably see 8 cores / 16 threads as a standard CPU (as apposed to an extreme CPU). That, mixed in with games being developed with more cores in mind, may well help, let alone those who render and encode.
 
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