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Which CPU socket?
- Thread starter jsmoke
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Sensible budget, or extreme performance at any cost? 
1150 for standard desktop parts; i3, i5, or i7 Haswells with 2-4 cores, which is what most people will have.
2011 for if you have a really good reason for 6 cores
Orrr... wait a few months for Skylake, which will be a new socket?
1150 for standard desktop parts; i3, i5, or i7 Haswells with 2-4 cores, which is what most people will have.
2011 for if you have a really good reason for 6 cores
Orrr... wait a few months for Skylake, which will be a new socket?
currently is LGA1150 as Haswell+Broadwell CPUs (Celeron,Pentium dual core, core i3 as 2c/4t, core i5 as 4c/4t or core i7 as 4c/8t)
But in two months will be new socket LGA1151 for new CPUs named Skylake. Maybe better waiting for it - chipset will support NVMe, PCIe 3.0 PCH links, new DMI, CPUs will be around +7% better in average
But in two months will be new socket LGA1151 for new CPUs named Skylake. Maybe better waiting for it - chipset will support NVMe, PCIe 3.0 PCH links, new DMI, CPUs will be around +7% better in average
Make that at least 3 months for Skylake. Intel is (should be) releasing Broadwell-C within the next several weeks, still on the LGA1150 socket. I've heard Skylake will be August at the earliest with LGA1151. It would make no sense for them to release two lots of CPUs so close to each other.
Personal peeve -> I do my build with a 4790k in June, would be annoying if Skylake released weeks after I build a new PC.
Personal peeve -> I do my build with a 4790k in June, would be annoying if Skylake released weeks after I build a new PC.