I haven't noticed any slowdown or felt held back in the slightest by my Haswell i5. I don't even feel an itch to overclock it even though I easily can, since it's already so bloody damned fast.
I wasn't constrained by budget but spending more than that seems absurd to me unless i'm trying to...
Real gaming is great on it, for what it is. (after dual channeling it.. I doubt there is a 12.5" laptop anywhere that games better in its' off hours, nonwithstanding some alienware or clevo 11.6's that have dGPU's)
throttling is always nearly instant (meaning performance is static) and not...
The 725 supports dual channel ram but nearly none of them shipped with a 2nd ram stick. They also reviewed a model with a TN panel.
Adding more ram to mine doubled the graphics scores.
But yeah thermal throttling just about does the chip in. Carrizo will fare better but will it have a chance...
I hope by "dead end market", you mean, the top selling laptops on Amazon for many years running.
Even my parents have one.
The haswell celerons are the best bang for the buck I've ever seen in mobile hardware.
Equivalent AMD's are 400-500 dollar systems.
On a tangent: the only design win...
I sort of disagree with your last point.
If you pick up a 290 or 290x today, it'll hold up fairly well at least until the next console generation hits and raises the bar again. And you had 5870's before, so you weren't exactly missing out on *that much*.
But then I lag a bit and tend to...
A 2M/4T chip that doesn't even dent a quad core haswell with Iris Pro.
I have an 860k, it's great, but it is nowhere in the same league as a quad haswell. cpu-wise.
They need to continue scaling the core size and IPC. eg the leap between P3, Core 1, 2, and now haswell sized cores and idealize around 2 or 4 cores that HT as needed.
But I do love me a good 8C/8T chip for VM's.
I went towards 'mainstream' effortless builds years ago for the same reason I tend to use Ubuntu instead of Arch linux.
I just don't have the time to waste.