@genius2365 said:
@horgen123 said:
@genius2365 said:
A bit off topic, but since I want to make myself a new PC with a GTX 8xx series card this summer, will Intel release a revision of their CPUs by then? I heard about the socket change between Ivy Bridge and Maxwell and last time I got gated by the last gen of dual cores for my current PC. Would not want that to happen again
5th gen i-cores CPU from Intel will still be 1150, though I assume Z97 or something like that. Should work with current Z87 mobos after a bios update.
Edit: Personal opinion is that unless you really need to upgrade now, wait for Skylake. From what I have been hearing, that is a rather massive upgrade when it comes to what you can connect to the mobo. Sata-express to mention one thing.
This is exactly the dilemma I have now. I've had my current PC for a while and it's quite outdated (Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.8 GHz, NVIDIA GTX 275, etc.) I was hoping to upgrade this summer, but now that I've heard about Skylake and it's socket change and massive upgrade, I'm stuck. I don't want to buy the last gen of 1150 socket CPUs (Haswell) only to be cut off from future upgrades, like I was with my Core 2 Duo (E8500 was one of the last of it's type, after that a socket change came with the Intel i series) I want to get into the beginning of the generation, not the end.
Well I doubt that there will be a big change in actual performance. Anyway there is Broadway in between... Or maybe that was only for Xeon and mobile. And we don't know if it will be released(Skylake) in 2015 or 2016...
http://wccftech.com/intel-14nm-skylake-processors-feature-pcie-4-ddr4-memory-sata-express/
Only in 2015 would the mainstream LGA 115* lineup get the first 14nm Skylake processors which bring some interesting new features. While Broadwell is a die shrink of Haswell built on a 14nm process and featuring a Gen8 integrated GPU, Skylake would be built around a totally new 14nm process design as an update over the Tri-gate architecture. Skylake would feature the latest Gen9 integrated HD graphics along with the being the first main-stream platform to get Dual channel DDR4 memory functionality. Haswell-E and Skylake would be the only two desktop platforms with native support for DDR4 memory from Intel and would ditch the much older DDR3.
Other than DDR4 memory, Skylake would also feature PCIe 4.0 functionality which doubles the bandwidth over PCIe 3.0 but it is known that no GPU currently takes benefit from the extra bandwidth available on PCIe 3.0 or even 2.0 so only if NVIDIA’s Maxwell requires massive bandwidth from the PCIe 4.0 slots would we see any real time performance benefit. Skylake would also get SATA Express functionality which has a bandwidth of around 10-16 GB/s enhancing the transfer speeds of hard drives and SSDs. Intel’s Skylake would feature the latest AVX 3.2 instructions over AVX 2.0 in current Haswell processors. The new micro architecture would launch in the first half of 2015 and would replace the Haswell refresh platform that arrives for desktop PCs next year.
Read more: http://wccftech.com/intel-14nm-skylake-processors-feature-pcie-4-ddr4-memory-sata-express/#ixzz2vUWCCoSN
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