Comments on: New Intel Haswell Processor Refresh on the Way?

By: Chitransh Deep Swami

Chitransh Deep Swami — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:50:00 +0000

just get a better cooler and oc your cpu

By: Chitransh Deep Swami

Chitransh Deep Swami — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:49:00 +0000

its the compatibility , for example most video editing software have compatibility on cuda but most plugins dont , so they are still rendered on cpu , point is cpu and do just about anything but slowly while gpu’s were they are optimized they can do wonders

By: Sangeet Khatri

Sangeet Khatri — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:39:00 +0000

Well.. for having 3 780s, the 4670k is clearly lacking the PCI Express Lanes for that. Since the 4670k has only 16 PCI Express Lanes, hence no more than 2 GPUs are recommended.

It would be like running two GPUs in x4 and one in x8 which is ridiculous.

Hence with the LGA 1150 platform, two GPUs are fine, since both GPUs run at x8. And PCI Express 3.0 x8 is equivalent to PCI Express 2.0 x16. Hence it should be fine with two GPUs.

By: Sangeet Khatri

Sangeet Khatri — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:35:00 +0000

4670k can push even the 7990 without issues. Heck even the 3570k could do it. Hence that is clearly not a problem.

By: Sangeet Khatri

Sangeet Khatri — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:33:00 +0000

Model numbers pretty much make it clear that they would be the same models but with high clock speeds (that’s why “Refresh”) and unable to overclock (since they lack K).

That would still keep the sales of 4770k and the 4670k going on because of their ability to overclock and the ones who want to save money on the Motherboard might just buy one of these CPU with a cheaper B85 chipset board.

By: Sangeet Khatri

Sangeet Khatri — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:31:00 +0000

Seriously! That’s not gonna happen.

By: Sangeet Khatri

Sangeet Khatri — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:30:00 +0000

Well.. this seems legit to me. There is already a generation gap between the extreme CPUs and the Normal grade CPUs. Right now, the consumer grade CPU is using Haswell architecture whereas the Extreme ones are stuck in the Ivy-Bridge architecture.

Hence if they somehow let one generation pass by naming it Haswell refresh and using the same Haswell architecture but also launching the Haswell-E CPUs, then both the normal CPUs and Extreme CPUs would then be on the same architecture.

The next gen would (might?) have Broadwell on both Extreme and Normal CPUs.

By: Klappa

Klappa — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:01:00 +0000

Wrong on you!

By: RoboBonobo

RoboBonobo — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 04:39:00 +0000

Excited why? All we have is model numbers. No specifics about how it’s an improvement over what’s already available.

By: Muhah Philhauley

Muhah Philhauley — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:35:00 +0000

but the 3970K is slower with 2 GPUS… the 4770K is the ultimate ruler stick for running 2 GPUs insync…