Haswell-E Q3

One step closer to mainstream reasonably priced hexa and octa core parts...in 5+ years. I'm quite anxious to see how these new bad boys stack up against current enthusiast line parts. 15+ % IPC increase, perhaps?
 
The minute I found out the 8 core part will only be the $999 part is the moment I lost interest. YAY for 8 cores and 6 core parts becoming far more affordable. Other than that I'm not hyped. Bad enough you're looking to plunk down $500 for the DDR4 modules. There will be no cheap for anyone who runs that 8 core HS-E part.

*EDIT* despite that graph showing an otherwise possibility, I'm really doubting it based off Intel's past habits of really not pushing after AMD's botched double core count couldn't match half theirs.
 
The minute I found out the 8 core part will only be the $999 part is the moment I lost interest. YAY for 8 cores and 6 core parts becoming far more affordable. Other than that I'm not hyped. Bad enough you're looking to plunk down $500 for the DDR4 modules. There will be no cheap for anyone who runs that 8 core HS-E part.

*EDIT* despite that graph showing an otherwise possibility, I'm really doubting it based off Intel's past habits of really not pushing after AMD's botched double core count couldn't match half theirs.

There never has been anything that indicated that the X58, X79, and X99 platforms were low budget or economical. They are the best of the best and outperform the rest. Thats kind of always been something you had to pay top dollar for. These platforms will always be 300-500+ dollars and up for CPUs.
 
The minute I found out the 8 core part will only be the $999 part is the moment I lost interest.

I expected them to cost a lot more than $999 so I was pleasantly surprised by that.
 
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There never has been anything that indicated that the X58, X79, and X99 platforms were low budget or economical. They are the best of the best and outperform the rest. Thats kind of always been something you had to pay top dollar for. These platforms will always be 300-500+ dollars and up for CPUs.


Well pushing a 6 core part (5820K) will definitely push more people to the higher-end platform that's for sure. There is a difference between paying for the best of the best and just throwing money at stupid. Motherboard manufacturers for the platform have capitalized on this in recent years to incredible levels. Whether or not the only 8 core high-end part deserves to be a $1,000 part on the other hand is debatable especially considering i7 3930K is an 8 core Xeon part with two cores disabled.


I expected them to cost a lot more than $999 so I was pleasantly surprised by that.

Really? There are similar Xeon parts selling for nearly that price. Then again most of the high-end parts are simply Xeon rejects or just handicapped. At least there is something noticeable to separate the $500 range and $1,000 range this time around because previously it has nothing more than a glamor purchase.
 
Really? There are similar Xeon parts selling for nearly that price. Then again most of the high-end parts are simply Xeon rejects or just handicapped. At least there is something noticeable to separate the $500 range and $1,000 range this time around because previously it has nothing more than a glamor purchase.

Not at frequencies that you will want in a desktop system. From ark.intel.com the only E5 V2 8 core / 16 threaded CPUs that is less than $1000 is 2GHz.
 
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Well pushing a 6 core part (5820K) will definitely push more people to the higher-end platform that's for sure. There is a difference between paying for the best of the best and just throwing money at stupid. Motherboard manufacturers for the platform have capitalized on this in recent years to incredible levels. Whether or not the only 8 core high-end part deserves to be a $1,000 part on the other hand is debatable especially considering i7 3930K is an 8 core Xeon part with two cores disabled.

They never verified anything except that a 8 core/16thread cpu will cost 999. Regardless if they do make a 6 core 5820 it is still on the extreme/enthusiast platform which has always had about the same price range. I guess you were expecting 8 core cpus on the mainstream platforms?
 
I'm not interested in 6 or 8 core, I'm fine with 4. I am more worried about OCing. Thankfully Haswell-E will be soldered cap. I've been waiting to upgrade since SB and a new platform with quad channel memory would be a good place to start again.
 
They never verified anything except that a 8 core/16thread cpu will cost 999. Regardless if they do make a 6 core 5820 it is still on the extreme/enthusiast platform which has always had about the same price range. I guess you were expecting 8 core cpus on the mainstream platforms?

If the 5820 does indeed get bumped to 6 core it could open the door for Skylake 6770k (or whatever it ends up being called) to end up with 6 as well.
 
If the 5820 does indeed get bumped to 6 core it could open the door for Skylake 6770k (or whatever it ends up being called) to end up with 6 as well.

It could but his initial post really came off like the whole platform was just overpriced or out of his budget like this is something new when it has been a trend for a while now. You think they are going to introduce a 8 core/16thread cpu at 350 or even 550 on the enthusiast platforms when the highest core/thread count last gen was a 6core/12thread cpu?
 
I don't expect the anything except the highest level models to have 8 cores.

I think more of us are curious if 6 cores becomes the base for all Enthusiast chips instead of 4.
 
I don't expect the anything except the highest level models to have 8 cores.

I think more of us are curious if 6 cores becomes the base for all Enthusiast chips instead of 4.

Same here. I think they need to make a core jump between the 2 sockets at least. It would help define them more clearly.
 
I don't expect the anything except the highest level models to have 8 cores.

I think more of us are curious if 6 cores becomes the base for all Enthusiast chips instead of 4.

8 cores would be for 1000$ don't worry about it. Users complained about miniscule differences between X and K CPUs, Thus Intel would create K 6 cores for 600 $ and X 8 cores for 1000 $.
Actually I wonder if there would be 4 core HW-E.
 
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