Haswell-E Reviews Finally Out!!

[X-powerman]

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After reading the reviews... I am like ok.... Looks like HE does offer hardly any benefits to gamers (no different from IBE, SBE). DDR4 and extra cache do boost up frame rates a little. but I feel its way too small to justify the price tag.

Overclocking is not really good as well. I guess its expected due to its die size and 8 cores.

OK, now looking forward to Broadwell. Hopefully the shrink in die size will allow us to finally hit that magical 5GHz mark.

 

[muddle]

I prefer 6c/12t then 5ghz overclocks tho.

 

[X-powerman]

I prefer 6c/12t then 5ghz overclocks tho.

The reason why I prefer 5GHz is because I only play games, surf net and watch videos on my PC.

I don't run anything that benefit from 6-8 cores (other than benchmarks).

If games are written to benefit from 6-8 cores, I will definitely get it. But then, I don't know when will companies start to make games that could utilise more cores.

 

[wkweewee]

Linus's brief intro on the haswell e..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uCWTfPZlDw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[SimonLam]

Unlikely will game developer make special tweak to support games for multi-core - they need to make their games easily affordable by mass

 

[duffie]

OK, now looking forward to Broadwell. Hopefully the shrink in die size will allow us to finally hit that magical 5GHz mark.

Most probably not.

 

[haylui]

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After reading the reviews... I am like ok.... Looks like HE does offer hardly any benefits to gamers (no different from IBE, SBE). DDR4 and extra cache do boost up frame rates a little. but I feel its way too small to justify the price tag.

Overclocking is not really good as well. I guess its expected due to its die size and 8 cores.

OK, now looking forward to Broadwell. Hopefully the shrink in die size will allow us to finally hit that magical 5GHz mark.

stock 5GHz or OCed 5GHz ?

 

[Alternative X]

stock 5GHz or OCed 5GHz ?

Maybe 5Ghz with TurboBoost at least.

 

[FinalTidus]

Waiting for my neck long long for Skylake.

 

[X-powerman]

stock 5GHz or OCed 5GHz ?

5GHz overclocked. Now 4790K cannot hit 5GHz....sucks....

 

[Phelan]

It's not about pure clock speed. The CPU Wars at the turn of the millennium have taught us that it's not the clock speed, it's the performance that the CPU can churn out at an equivalent clock speed. I remember that the highest end P4 is 3.8GHz, about eight or ten years ago. Would the P4 3.8GHz perform the same as a current generation Intel chip at 3.8GHz?

Also, overclocking even a current gen CPU to 5GHz even on on liquid cooling would probably only give you validation, not a stable platform to run on.

 

[CeleronD]

OK, now looking forward to Broadwell. Hopefully the shrink in die size will allow us to finally hit that magical 5GHz mark.

i thought 5ghz was already frequently reached by SB users back in 2011?

shrinking die size also reduces the area available for heat transfer, and that seems to be the bottleneck for most end-users. of course liquid nitro users will see a jump.

that said, lower heat dissipation(better) vs smaller area for heat transfer(worse), dunno whether the final speed will be better or worse.

 

[CeleronD]

The reason why I prefer 5GHz is because I only play games, surf net and watch videos on my PC.

I don't run anything that benefit from 6-8 cores (other than benchmarks).

If games are written to benefit from 6-8 cores, I will definitely get it. But then, I don't know when will companies start to make games that could utilise more cores.

sometimes its not easily possible to divide the workload so that it can be processed in parallel.

some applications yes, like encoding where you split segments up for each core. or chess where you split different variation branches.

but for those where you can't, like a math question where you can only solve part c after getting the answer to part b, then multicores are largely useless.

the jump from 1 cores to 2 in 2006 was huge though. there was always 1 core to run background processes, freeing up 1 for the main application.

i remember running an athlon xp 2-cpu system 10 yrs back. though it was never tops in games, it always felt smoother on the desktop.

 

[SimonLam]

For ppl to drool... a US10k setup

Need a Beast of a PC ? GamingPC Releases 4.4 GHz Core i7-5960X Gaming System

Processor Intel Core I7-5960X Eight Core 20MB Hyperthreading 4.4GHz
Motherboard ASUS Rampage V Extreme X99
Memory G.skill G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR 4 series 64GB (8 x 8GB)
Primary Hard Drive Crucial M550 SATA 1TB Solid State Drive SSD
Secondary Hard Drive 2x Western Digital Black 4TB Raid 0 (8TB Total)
Video Card 4x EVGA GeForce GTX Titan Black QUAD SLI
Audio Card Realtek ALC898 7.1-Channel High Definition Audio (On Board)
Drives LG WH16NS40 16X Blu Ray Writer - 16x DVD Writer
Secondary Drive I don't want one
Power Supply Silverstone Strider ST1500 1500W Power Supply
Case Corsair Obsidian 750D
Cooling Custom Professional grade system with videocards Water Cooling (QUAD-SLI )
Operating System Windows 8.1 64 Bit English
Overclock Overclocked Speed 4.4 GHz
Wireless Network Card Integrated Wireless Network Card

 

[jiany98]

Anyone know when more stores at SLS will get stock of X99 and DDR4?