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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

Kaapstad said:
What I keep thinking is if I can put a 4770k in a mobo with at least 40 PCI-E 3.0 lanes, it would make an excellent benching rig......

No I must resist, I must resist, I must..........
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Does anyone know if Haswell & respective motherboards will support more than 32 PCIx lanes?
 
apeksdiver said:
Me too but the upgrade bug is really biting. 3770K or wait for Haswell?
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well Around January I was tempted to buy a 3570k or whatever. But now its Mid April... I think waiting is the key. I am DEFINITELY going to mount this Q6600 on my wall. Never have I had so much value in a CPU in the last 15 years since I've had a PC
 
Sounds like people are really digging their Core 2 systems. Undoubtedly one of the best processor series of all time in the desktop. Can't say the same for my Phenom.
 
^ 'Core 2' as in Core-2-Quad / Duo. Think there was a technical justification for calling the quads Core 2 too, maybe because they were 2+2 cores and not 4 properly individual ones, at least initially?

Wish I'd have went for a Q6600, had the relatively lowly E6300 instead.

Martini1991 said:
Imagine a 5GHZ 4770K 24/7.
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Lovely...

 
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jomiyo said:
^ 'Core 2' as in Core-2-Quad / Duo. Think there was a technical justification for calling the quads Core 2 too, maybe because they were 2+2 cores and not 4 properly individual ones, at least initially?

Wish I'd have went for a Q6600, had the relatively lowly E6300 instead.



Lovely...
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Ah, makes sense, all I know is I went with the cheaper E6600 and regretted not going with the Q6600.
 
Ash2097 said:
Could be wrong here but the Q6600 people have been mentioning was 4 cores? and the E6600 was 2 cores.
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Core 2 is the second iteration (if that's the right way to put it) of the core series. So there was a very small original Core series, the Core Duo and the Core Solo I think, then came the Core 2 Solo, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad. They all come under the same "Core 2" brand.

Confusing, I know.
 
Razyre said:
Core 2 is the second iteration (if that's the right way to put it) of the core series. So there was a very small original Core series, the Core Duo and the Core Solo I think, then came the Core 2 Solo, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad. They all come under the same "Core 2" brand.

Confusing, I know.
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Ah, much more sense... >.<
 
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Slightly unrelated post, but it's to do with what will be my Haswell build, am I wrong for being paranoid about 2GB vRAM? I want to buy a GTX 670 (Originally wanted a 7970, but AMD drivers and their future put me off) and will soon purchase a 2K monitor after my Haswell build. Now, while current games don't need more than 2GB vRAM at 2K res, I have a sneaky feeling they will soon go over, and when I can't run everything nicely, I'll likely just buy a second 670.

I have a 560Ti and bought a 1GB version foolishly over a 2GB version. It chokes on BF3 @ Ultra @ 1080p due to vRAM, and Crysis 3 on higher texture settings. Running out of vRAM is horrible, and I don't want it to happen again.

A 4GB version of the 670 is more expensive, but I think it may well be worthwhile for when I SLI in the future, maybe even if I go for more screens.
 
Intel Haswell-E Features DDR4 Memory and LGA 2011 Socket Compatibility

http://wccftech.com/intel-roadmap-leaks-haswell-e-lituya-bay-hedt-platform/

According to the roadmap, Intel would launch their Haswell-E HEDT platform codenamed “Lituya Bay” in first half of 2015. The platform would replace Intel’s Ivy Bridge-E “Waimea Bay” platform which is supposed to launch in Q3 this year. Ivy Bridge-E processors would be based on the 22nm process technology and the respective Core i7-4000 series models can be found here. Similarly, Haswell-E chips would be based on the 22nm architecture and remain compatible with LGA 2011 socket however a new chipset would be implemented on the next generation motherboards which would allow for native DDR4 memory support. You heard it right, Haswell-E would be the first HEDT platform by Intel to bring DDR4 memory support.
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Interesting times ahead :cool:
 
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I'll seriously considering waiting for Haswell-E, if DDR4 is indeed included. Still rocking my 920 @ 3.4Ghz (2008 model C0 stepping that can't go higher).
 
Processor tech seems to be stagnating in my mind. We had a massive boost in 2011 with Sandy Bridge, but since then things aren't too impressive.

GPUs seem to move much faster. I just wonder how long we'll still be using these conventional processors before we move to something else. Tbh, in my mind you could handle the CPU calculations on board a new kind of GPU, which I think is what Maxwell is beginning to do (Nvidia's next architecture).

Either way, in the present, I need a Haswell processor in my system.
 
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