When can we expect Haswell Celly's

[jbltecnicspro]

I was looking to build a little ITX system for the living room computer. Currently, we're using an old Dell laptop running Linux Mint.

When do the Celeron's and Pentium's come out? I was debating on getting a G1610 and building the system around that. But if Haswell's Celeron is coming soon, then it wouldn't make too much sense to. I had a Sandy G540 and damn, for a cheap little chip it was awesome. Fast, cool, quiet, and hardly consumed any power at all.

 

[zandor]

Here's what I've seen:

Haswell i3s and Pentiums in September
New Ivy Bridge Celerons in September
"Silvermont" (new Atom architecture) based Celerons and Pentiums are also coming.

There really isn't much of anything to differentiate Celerons from Pentiums except clock speed and an extra 1MB L3 cache on the Pentiums, so I wouldn't be all that surprised if Celerons just switched over to Silvermont & Haswell versions never showed up.

 

[pxc]

^ yeah those are the rumors from last month.

Low end Haswell models supposedly coming in September:
Pentium G3220 2 / 2 3 GHz 3 MB HD 1100 MHz DDR3-1333 54 Watt
Pentium G3220T 2 / 2 2.6 GHz 3 MB HD 1100 MHz DDR3-1333 35 Watt
Pentium G3420 2 / 2 3.2 GHz 3 MB HD 1100 MHz DDR3-1600 54 Watt
Pentium G3420T 2 / 2 2.7 GHz 3 MB HD 1100 MHz DDR3-1600 35 Watt
Pentium G3430 2 / 2 3.3 GHz 3 MB HD 1100 MHz DDR3-1600 54 Watt

There's little difference between those and similar Ivy Bridge based Pentium models, besides small IPC increases. Like IB Pentiums, those don't support AVX, no quicksync, gimped GPU, etc.

 

[jbltecnicspro]

Thanks guys. I'll just go with the "older" Ivy Celeron.

 

[pxc]

Low end Haswell processors are popping up for pre-order: http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2013/...Haswell_CPUs_are_available_for_pre-order.html

It's kind of impressive how much CPU you can get for $70: a 3GHz Halfwell (because so much hardware is disabled ) with "GT1" (10EU/80ALUs) HD Graphics. While it really can't compete with graphics performance against $70 AMD CPUs, it should easily blow away every dual core processor AMD sells in CPU performance.