How long will Intel keep LGA 1150?

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Does anyone know what the life span of LGA 1150 will be? Has Intel released any roadmaps (or 'leaked' presentations)? I bought my I5 750 (LGA 1156) when it was first released and was not too happy when they killed my upgrade path with 1155 a short time later. I want to assemble a new machine and it will make me feel better if I know Intel doesn't already have another socket change slated for next year.
 
Well Broadwell will use the same socket and that's due in 2014, Skylake however is a socket change and that's out in 2015... so around 2 years.
 
Intel is on a tick tock cycle. This cycle lasts approximately 2 years, with annual cpu refresh (usually die size changes and some minor feature upgrades). 1150 as others have said is in its first 6 months, so approximately 1.5 years left.

CPU compatibility depends on the MB and any bios changes that need to be made in to accommodate the new CPU.

Skylake is a socket change. But due note their is alot of speculation about the distinct possibility of Intel moving to a BGA type socket. But as of the current evidence and facts Intel has not release a confirmation on that.
 
Broadwell may use the 1150 socket but it also might need a new chipset due to the new power requirements. That may make it like the Socket 775 where the socket was the same but upgradability was limited (no newer CPUs in older motherboards).
 
DDR4 will need a new chipset. I'm not looking forward to paying for the memory modules >.<

I am looking forward to a better 4core i7 to OC then the 4770k, though. I'll gladly pay for one of those if it actually generally overclocks well. I should have got an i5 instead maybe, guessing the HT makes the 4770k even harder to OC reliably from chip to chip.
 
Bluesun311 said:
DDR4 will need a new chipset. I'm not looking forward to paying for the memory modules >.<

I am looking forward to a better 4core i7 to OC then the 4770k, though. I'll gladly pay for one of those if it actually generally overclocks well. I should have got an i5 instead maybe, guessing the HT makes the 4770k even harder to OC reliably from chip to chip.
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I don`t think thats going to happen. Intel is moving to lower power consumption model and the only place real OC is going to lie in the E chips.
 
I got my Haswell this past July: $532 for the motherboard and CPU, already had memory and video cards from my old system. When Haswell-E comes out next year, I will def switch then.
 
^that sounds cool, but why? I don`t see the value in that, but ehh
 
^that sounds cool, but why? I don`t see the value in that, but ehh
 
samm said:
^that sounds cool, but why? I don`t see the value in that, but ehh
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I want as many cores as possible. I do a lot of 3d drawing work and video editing with the adobe cs suite.

Hopefully, Intel will produce a 12 core / 24 thread cpu in the next round of releases. But since AMD does not really compete with Intel in this fashion, Intel has held back on releasing some of their upper end Xeon 8 Core CPU's that are unlocked for the consumer sector.

Currently, you can purchase an Intel 8 Core CPU, but it costs upwards of $1900 and you can't over clock them.
 
The Cobra said:
I want as many cores as possible. I do a lot of 3d drawing work and video editing with the adobe cs suite.

Hopefully, Intel will produce a 12 core / 24 thread cpu in the next round of releases. But since AMD does not really compete with Intel in this fashion, Intel has held back on releasing some of their upper end Xeon 8 Core CPU's that are unlocked for the consumer sector.

Currently, you can purchase an Intel 8 Core CPU, but it costs upwards of $1900 and you can't over clock them.
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You want an unlocked 12 core CPU?

Ths was posted a while ago...Francois Piednoel at Intel is surveying folks to see if there's interest. Be sure and express yours...;)

http://www.hardware-360.com/intel-p...w-if-you-would-buy-12-core-extreme-processor/
 
As a general rule intel in recent times has switched between doing a major new microarchitecture one year and a process shrink combined with minor architectural tweaks the next year. Generally die shrinks have stayed on the same socket while major new microarchitectures have used new sockets.

However die shrinks recently have been underwhelming.

Nahelm was shrunk to produce Westmere but the products based on (non-shrunk) Nahelm and those based on Westmere were largely disjoint sets* and coexisted until Sandy bridge came along.

Sandy bridge was shrunk to produce ivy bridge and that time round they did (eventually) release roughly the same range of products based on both the unshrunk and shrunk cores but while power consumption went down the stock clocks only increased marginally and the overclockability remained about the same.

I strongly suspect that the story with Haswell/broadwell will be similar and that if you buy an upper mainstream part now you will have little reason to upgrade before the next new microarchitecture comes along.

* The unshunk nahelm covered the 4 core parts while Westmere covered the 2 and 6 core parts. There were a handful of quad core Westmere based xeons but afaict they were crippled 6 core chips rather than a true quad core design.
 
The Cobra said:
I want as many cores as possible. I do a lot of 3d drawing work and video editing with the adobe cs suite.

Hopefully, Intel will produce a 12 core / 24 thread cpu in the next round of releases. But since AMD does not really compete with Intel in this fashion, Intel has held back on releasing some of their upper end Xeon 8 Core CPU's that are unlocked for the consumer sector.
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To be honest, you'd be surprised how little benefit you see going over 6-cores, on SNB-E it was just about the sweet spot. (Haven't tested 8-core IVB-E)

Have an E5-2687W (3.1GHz base clock, 150W) in my home workstation and tested it against a 3960X and 4960X recently - even the 3960X beat it in everything except Cinebench (including Premiere Pro and After Effects) despite a lower TDP. The 4960X had an even bigger lead.
 
Clock all the CPUs the same. Then load them up with a greater and greater workload and see what you get. The benefit to an unlocked 12 core is that you get the best of both worlds...tons of threads and a clock speed close to that of a chip with fewer cores. Single threaded apps wouldn't benefit much on their own, but you could run many more of them on a 12 core...and multi-threaded apps would scream...;)
 
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