#4801045

lucidus

2014-04-15 04:33

***3900; ***12388; ***9685;_***9685; ***3901;***12388; give Devil's Canyon 4790k pls. Edit: HEY .. what happened to my formatting 🙁 Give formatting too 🙁

#4801380

warezme

2014-04-15 20:26

It's 2014, my cell phone has 4 cores, why is Intel stuck on desktop 4 cores. If they won't give us more cores because they are to busy milking enterprise users with higher number cores and don't want desktop competing at least give us higher Mhz, like 4.5Ghz to 5Ghz range instead of always being stuck at 3.2 to 3.9. This industry is as stagnant as you can get. (end rant)

#4801403

BLEH!

2014-04-15 21:11

More cores does not = better performance.

I beg to differ :P

#4801596

icedman

2014-04-16 05:58

this is what happens without competition the market gets stale. I have been waiting for a worth while upgrade for my 2500k at the same price point but its all junk.

#4801599

lucidus

2014-04-16 06:07

ARM is their competition now :P They're interested in making their chips energy efficient instead.

#4801632

Ryrynz

2014-04-16 08:41

this is what happens without competition the market gets stale. I have been waiting for a worth while upgrade for my 2500k at the same price point but its all junk.

Has jack all to do with competition and market getting stale. The fact is Broadwell is delayed so they're releasing these in the meantime. The prices are due to competition, that's it. All junk? You have a terrible view of things. I'll be upgrading to a Haswell processor with HALF the TDP of my 2600K (allowing me to choose a passive CPU cooling solution) and also gaining around 10% CPU performance. Not only that the integrated GPU performance will skyrocket about 60% if I choose to use that over dedicated graphics. That along with receiving a motherboard compatible with the newer 14nm Broadwell processors which will see significant power savings and graphics performance increases (128MB eDRAM FTW) and another CPU performance bump. Like I said. A terrible view of things, just keep your 2500K forever and shut up about it, thanks.

#4801636

lucidus

2014-04-16 09:04

Burnnn....

#4801688

lucidus

2014-04-16 11:42

They should. Haswell refresh is supposed to have improved TIM.

#4801692

TheDeeGee

2014-04-16 11:44

Even if these are OEMs and the majority of us unable to get them (now); will these work on the current Z87 platform?

EVGA said they work on most of their Z87 boards. I bet it will work for other brands aswell with a Bios Update.

#4801693

TheDeeGee

2014-04-16 11:45

They should. Haswell refresh is supposed to have improved TIM.

Improved TIM doesn't mean anything if you still need 1.35 volts to reach just 4.2 GHz. Still a silicon lottery.

#4801694

lucidus

2014-04-16 11:47

But it's always been like that :007:

#4801783

TheDeeGee

2014-04-16 14:51

I have a few of those lol.

That sucks : / I'm lucky mine does 4,5 GHz at only 1.175 volts.

#4801936

icedman

2014-04-16 19:31

Holy crap Ryrynz rage much, dont get me wrong the cpu's are still great they just havent made any worthwhile performance jumps that can justify 250$ upgrade just slightly more energy efficient.

#4801970

kens30

2014-04-16 20:26

this is what happens without competition the market gets stale. I have been waiting for a worth while upgrade for my 2500k at the same price point but its all junk.

I agree with your statement, Intel has left AMD far behind in their desktop cpu's in raw performance for quite some time now. Unlike their competition with Nvidia in the discrete desktop GPU department in which AMD is doing very well. I wish AMD would release a miracle cpu that will surpass Intel's offerings by up to 50% and at the same price point. I know i am only dreaming, but i would really like to see the same level of competition of Nvidia vs AMD with Intel. I would love to have new powerful cpu's that i can upgrade to as often as GPU's.