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    I had finally decided to go 4790k until...

    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...
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    AMD Releases more Carrizo Details: AMD's ISSCC 2015 Presentation

    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...
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    AMD Releases more Carrizo Details: AMD's ISSCC 2015 Presentation

    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...
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    AMD Releases more Carrizo Details: AMD's ISSCC 2015 Presentation

    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...
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    "Intel forges ahead to 10nm, will move away from silicon at 7nm"

    If they hit a wall at 10nm they can just move into 3d stacking
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    New catalyst driver out

    I'm only seeing 14.12, which has been out since december...
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    290x worth $50 more than 290?

    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...
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    Broadwell/Skywell Release - New Intel Details

    Not sure why anybody thought a die shrink of haswell would be exciting.
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    Skylake on desktop delayed to August - DigiTimes

    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.
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    Intel Dual-Core Waxes Intel Quad-Core (and I eat crow)

    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.
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    No surprise here, XFX 290 DD VRM temps over 100c at stock volts

    Stock XFX 290x DD case side panel off. Stable, not too worried.
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    I had finally decided to go 4790k until...

    Fine, lay out some formulas that prove your point. It won't help you without benchmarks.
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    290x worth $50 more than 290?

    Unless you're pushing the high end of 4k gaming you won't notice.
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    Skylake on desktop delayed to August - DigiTimes

    "delayed" inside of 2015. when broadwell isn't even out.
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    Just how important is cooling nowadays?

    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.
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