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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

Only just started to use it.
Looks nice all ROG colours red and black.
It glows red as well, lots of bling.

Too early for reports really.
 
WingZero30 said:
Going by this roadmap there doesn't seem to be desktop 14nm Broadwell shrink of Haswell. Instead there would be still 22nm 'Haswell Refresh' in late 2014/early 2015 followed by 14nm Skylake in 2015.
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Skylake had better be something pretty special then, seeing as how at the moment we're looking at a ~20% increase in performance from Sandy Bridge's release in Jan 2010 to the end of Haswell's run in 1H2015.

Long gone are the days of a doubling in performance every 18-24 months :(
 
I've had two 4670K's, the first wouldn't do 4.4GHZ stable.
My motherboard's giving me RAM instability issues, and I'm still waiting on the competitor to get back to me.

I take it you've got a horrific clocker?
 
All a bit disappointing then this Haswell launch.

What seems poor, is not necessarily the small increase in speed, but the massive variation in OC potential caused by the silicon lottery and MB issues.

I wonder how many might DSR?

If I'd have gone to Haswell I think I would have been a very angry consumer...especially with some of the hyperbole said around the platform through certain sources.

In a way I'm happy that they are keeping the *-E range just that bit nicer.... roll on IB-E 6 core in my desktop next spring ..
 
lnoton said:
All a bit disappointing then this Haswell launch.

What seems poor, is not necessarily the small increase in speed, but the massive variation in OC potential caused by the silicon lottery and MB issues.

I wonder how many might DSR?

If I'd have gone to Haswell I think I would have been a very angry consumer...especially with some of the hyperbole said around the platform through certain sources.

In a way I'm happy that they are keeping the *-E range just that bit nicer.... roll on IB-E 6 core in my desktop next spring ..
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If you're gonna wait til spring for IB-E, why not wait til Haswell-E 8 cores are released next year? ;)
 
Martini1991 said:
I've had two 4670K's, the first wouldn't do 4.4GHZ stable.
My motherboard's giving me RAM instability issues, and I'm still waiting on the competitor to get back to me.

I take it you've got a horrific clocker?
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To put it mildly yes.
The thermal issues are really bad, far worse than IVY

It is quire ridiculous the chip is running high temps under load, well moderate load things such as P95/IBT are impossible to run.

The heatsink is stone cold, all that heat is trapped in the core, the transfer through the IHS is awful.

I could improve the heat transfer into the IHS by de lidding but the IHS is flush with the CPU and it is impossible to get a blade edge between them.

On my IVY's it was easy to get started on a corner but not so easy with this 4770K.
I will certainly break it if I attempt it.
I don't feel inclined to whack it with a hammer either as that probably wont end well.

The MB is sweet and the IMC in the CPU seems decent.
OK for running the 4Ghz challenge I suppose.
 
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