keoghjacob

*WARNING - TECH RANT BELOW*
I've been building PCs for over 10 years, and working on them for much longer than that.
...and, I remember the days when everything was running on Molex power and PATA ribbon cables. Albeit PATA was slower than sludge vs SATA, and Molex was aging and didn't have a real versatility other than carrying a static voltage...I'm not so fond of it's replacement.
While I love the simplicity of SATA, with its small connector and incredible throughput advantage over PATA (IDE), the whole female connector system used on hard drives and other devices is PATHETIC when it comes to durability.
So, I understand the movement away from the massive PATA male connector. Not only was it huge, but it was keyed in an awkward fashion where you'd sometimes forget it's and keep trying to insert it into the most hard to reach place in your case, jamming the male end into a hard disk only to realize 5 minutes later you just needed to flip it.
I see why we needed smaller and thinner cables. Great idea. But, why did the SATA standard skimp on durability when the SATA II standard was published?
When SATA I came out, 90% of users were using friction-fit SATA cables. They're not common today, but they're the SATA cables WITHOUT the metal clips on top. These didn't do damage to SATA ports on devices, and simply fit snugly (by friction) into ports without the need of securing clips. They didn't wear out ports, even though they were a bit easier to pull out of the port when you're working inside a PC.
AFTER SATA II, most drives and other peripherals started using the metal clip locking systems. These connectors are smaller than the others, and rely on small metal beads (or maybe...spikes, don't know exactly what they should be called) to grip plastic grooves on the drive to secure the cable.
Well, here's where the problem with that system comes in. After repetitive removal/insertion cycles, the beads or spikes on the top of the cable will scrape and wear away at these grooves, and if any backwards tension is applied on a locked (inserted) SATA cable, it'll rip these grooves completely out, ruining the clip-locking mechanism on your drive, making clipped SATA cables not lock, and be incredibly loose on your drive.
Now, this isn't an unsolvable problem. I'm sure many people have experienced this, and there IS a solution.
You can buy older SATA I friction-lock cables (don't worry, they're 100% compatible and as effective as SATA III branded cables) on eBay, and Newegg as well as other online retailers. Heck, you might even find some at your local Microcenter or NCIX stores.
Silverstone has actually addressed this issue and released their "Tek 180 Degree" high quality braided SATA III cables which LACK the metal clips and are advertised to reduce wear on your drive connector (which they do wonderfully).
Now, onto the SATA power connector. Who the hell designed the thing? We used to have Molex connectors which were keyed and effectively friction-locked onfo the drive, and had 4 pins if repairs needed to be done.
Now we have a dozen-pin monstrosity which at the same time is also configured as a thin, flimsy and breakable SATA power port and male end (SATA data ports and cables are just as flimsy). Why didn't we just stick with a colored Molex connector?
Both the thin SATA power and data ports and cables are flimsy and break easily and are generally not designed for durability.
TLDR: I hate SATA.
</rant>

So, pretty early in the month, around the computex release of Devil's Canyon, I preordered the i7-4790k from Amazon for $380. That was $40 more than Newegg, and $100 more than my local microcenter, but I buy stuff from Amazon all the time and figured I'd not drive to microcenter.
 
The original projected release date on Amazon was the 27th, then over the next few weeks it jumped from the 27th, to the 30th, to the 20th, and it finally settled on the 25th. I figured they were just having some stock issues.
 
The 25th came by and no ship. I figured this up to just being a problem with shipping the mass amount of preorders. I let a day go by, and by late afternoon on the 26th there was still no ship.
 
I chatted with Amazon, and read up "reviews" on the product where people were chatting. People were speculating that Amazon oversold the preorders, didn't have stock, or didn't even order any. People weren't getting items shipped, people were getting told by CSRs that they'd ship "TODAY" or "TOMORROW", none of which happened.
 
I chatted with Amazon, wherein they said "they were shipping today". This turned out not to be true. I chatted with another rep who apologized for the misinformation and upgraded me to "1-Day Shipping". She later told me it'd be weeks until they got Devil's Canyon chips.
 
I asked the rep that upgraded me to escalate me to a manager. The manager looked up shipment information and said "Our i7-4790ks sold by Amazon.com LLC wil ship on August 11th." ... she seemed to act like that was an acceptable customer experience and said "If that's not an acceptable wait then I'd just suggest you cancel your order."
 
I ended up just re-ordering the item via Amazon, which was sold by "CircuitCity", which IS TigerDirect, which showed up on the UPS ticket.
 
Needless to say, my jimmies are rustled.
 
 Also, look at the picture for Amazon LLC's shipping dates for Devil's Canyon.
 
http://i.imgur.com/HjnJH6f.jpg

So, pretty early in the month, around the computex release of Devil's Canyon, I preordered the i7-4790k from Amazon for $380. That was $40 more than Newegg, and $100 more than my local microcenter, but I buy stuff from Amazon all the time and figured I'd not drive to microcenter.
 
The original projected release date on Amazon was the 27th, then over the next few weeks it jumped from the 27th, to the 30th, to the 20th, and it finally settled on the 25th. I figured they were just having some stock issues.
 
The 25th came by and no ship. I figured this up to just being a problem with shipping the mass amount of preorders. I let a day go by, and by late afternoon on the 26th there was still no ship.
 
I chatted with Amazon, and read up "reviews" on the product where people were chatting. People were speculating that Amazon oversold the preorders, didn't have stock, or didn't even order any. People weren't getting items shipped, people were getting told by CSRs that they'd ship "TODAY" or "TOMORROW", none of which happened.
 
I chatted with Amazon, wherein they said "they were shipping today". This turned out not to be true. I chatted with another rep who apologized for the misinformation and upgraded me to "1-Day Shipping". She later told me it'd be weeks until they got Devil's Canyon chips.
 
I asked the rep that upgraded me to escalate me to a manager. The manager looked up shipment information and said "Our i7-4790ks sold by Amazon.com LLC wil ship on August 11th." ... she seemed to act like that was an acceptable customer experience and said "If that's not an acceptable wait then I'd just suggest you cancel your order."
 
I ended up just re-ordering the item via Amazon, which was sold by "CircuitCity", which IS TigerDirect, which showed up on the UPS ticket.
 
Needless to say, my jimmies are rustled.
 
 Also, look at the picture for Amazon LLC's shipping dates for Devil's Canyon.
 
http://i.imgur.com/HjnJH6f.jpg

So, pretty early in the month, around the computex release of Devil's Canyon, I preordered the i7-4790k from Amazon for $380. That was $40 more than Newegg, and $100 more than my local microcenter, but I buy stuff from Amazon all the time and figured I'd not drive to microcenter.
 
The original projected release date on Amazon was the 27th, then over the next few weeks it jumped from the 27th, to the 30th, to the 20th, and it finally settled on the 25th. I figured they were just having some stock issues.
 
The 25th came by and no ship. I figured this up to just being a problem with shipping the mass amount of preorders. I let a day go by, and by late afternoon on the 26th there was still no ship.
 
I chatted with Amazon, and read up "reviews" on the product where people were chatting. People were speculating that Amazon oversold the preorders, didn't have stock, or didn't even order any. People weren't getting items shipped, people were getting told by CSRs that they'd ship "TODAY" or "TOMORROW", none of which happened.
 
I chatted with Amazon, wherein they said "they were shipping today". This turned out not to be true. I chatted with another rep who apologized for the misinformation and upgraded me to "1-Day Shipping". She later told me it'd be weeks until they got Devil's Canyon chips.
 
I asked the rep that upgraded me to escalate me to a manager. The manager looked up shipment information and said "Our i7-4790ks sold by Amazon.com LLC wil ship on August 11th." ... she seemed to act like that was an acceptable customer experience and said "If that's not an acceptable wait then I'd just suggest you cancel your order."
 
I ended up just re-ordering the item via Amazon, which was sold by "CircuitCity", which IS TigerDirect, which showed up on the UPS ticket.
 
Needless to say, my jimmies are rustled.
 
 Also, look at the picture for Amazon LLC's shipping dates for Devil's Canyon.
 
http://i.imgur.com/HjnJH6f.jpg

Here's the photo from HotHardware.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/clc74uxm7u5ptnt/Photo%20Jun%2002%2C%202%2018%2026%20PM.jpg

VESA is announcing that the final specifications for DockPort, a dock communication system for DisplayPort, making DisplayPort even more awesome as it is.
The specification states:
-> Carries full power USB 3.1 (yes 3.1, not 3.0)
-> Manufactures are free to provide any ports they like on the dock
-> Must be integrated in fully functional DisplayPort connector (obviously)
-> Provides power in addition to USB 3.1. (Power delivery capabilities are not mentioned by VESA)
-> Royalty free, so expect wide adoption soon.
-> New cabling presented, but backward compatible to current DisplayPort (probably extra pin the connector like USB 3.0 from 2.0, is my guess)
VESA press release states:
VESA also mentions that several manufactures will show products with DockPort at Computex Taiwan.

(image from AnandTech article)
DockPort logo has been made and represented bellow, and you can look for it on supported device.

Source:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8106/vesa-releases-dockport-specification
http://www.displayport.org/pr/vesa-releases-dockport-standard/

It's official! Devil's Canyon will ship on June 14.
Intel has officially announced Devil's Canyons' release, and shipping date.
Overclockers rejoice, as we can finally look forward to the official release of the OC-geared silicon!
Source:
http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Announces-New-Devils-Canyon-CPU-4GHz-Base-Clock-44GHz-Turbo-Mode-/
P.S:
To WCCF Hassan:
I regret to inform you, albeit you sending me a butthurt PM on the LTT Forum about me question ing the WCCF article on Devil's Canyon DEFINITELY being delayed, this obviously has proven to be different.
May I direct you, and all your WCCF minions to the recently viral Scripps Spelling Bee video, of which you may be able to relate to:

It's official! Devil's Canyon will ship on June 14.
Intel has officially announced Devil's Canyons' release, and shipping date.
Overclockers rejoice, as we can finally look forward to the official release of the OC-geared silicon!
Source:
http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Announces-New-Devils-Canyon-CPU-4GHz-Base-Clock-44GHz-Turbo-Mode-/
P.S:
To WCCF Hassan:
I regret to inform you, albeit you sending me a butthurt PM on the LTT Forum about me question ing the WCCF article on Devil's Canyon DEFINITELY being delayed, this obviously has proven to be different.
May I direct you, and all your WCCF minions to the recently viral Scripps Spelling Bee video, of which you may be able to relate to:

It's official! Devil's Canyon will ship on June 14.
Intel has officially announced Devil's Canyons' release, and shipping date.
Overclockers rejoice, as we can finally look forward to the official release of the OC-geared silicon!
Source:
http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Announces-New-Devils-Canyon-CPU-4GHz-Base-Clock-44GHz-Turbo-Mode-/
P.S:
To WCCF Hassan:
I regret to inform you, albeit you sending me a butthurt PM on the LTT Forum about me question ing the WCCF article on Devil's Canyon DEFINITELY being delayed, this obviously has proven to be different.
May I direct you, and all your WCCF minions to the recently viral Scripps Spelling Bee video, of which you may be able to relate to:

It's official! Devil's Canyon will ship on June 14.
Intel has officially announced Devil's Canyons' release, and shipping date.
Overclockers rejoice, as we can finally look forward to the official release of the OC-geared silicon!
Source:
http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Announces-New-Devils-Canyon-CPU-4GHz-Base-Clock-44GHz-Turbo-Mode-/
P.S:
To WCCF Hassan:
I regret to inform you, albeit you sending me a butthurt PM on the LTT Forum about me question ing the WCCF article on Devil's Canyon DEFINITELY being delayed, this obviously has proven to be different.
May I direct you, and all your WCCF minions to the recently viral Scripps Spelling Bee video, of which you may be able to relate to:

It's official! Devil's Canyon will ship on June 14.
Intel has officially announced Devil's Canyons' release, and shipping date.
Overclockers rejoice, as we can finally look forward to the official release of the OC-geared silicon!
Source:
http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Announces-New-Devils-Canyon-CPU-4GHz-Base-Clock-44GHz-Turbo-Mode-/
P.S:
To WCCF Hassan:
I regret to inform you, albeit you sending me a butthurt PM on the LTT Forum about me question ing the WCCF article on Devil's Canyon DEFINITELY being delayed, this obviously has proven to be different.
May I direct you, and all your WCCF minions to the recently viral Scripps Spelling Bee video, of which you may be able to relate to:

Got PMed by "WCCF Hassan".
 
He linked me to the Chinese source "Expreview" which I translated and got the jist of what WCCF was telling.
Unfortunately, the Chinese "source" that WCCF is using, Expreview, is only "assuming" that the release will be in September.
The article starts with "shichang chuanyan" which literally translates to "market rumors".
 
The article is based completely on rumors, assumptions and/or hearsay. I'm not really trusting the article now that I know of it's origins. We'll see the truth on June 2nd.

For professionalism, though, WCCF guys, I'd reccomend you not get on a tech forum and get defensive and butthurt when people ridicule and/or have skepticism of your media.
If you know you're putting out authentic information, then keep putting it out and ignore the skeptics.

For professionalism, though, WCCF guys, I'd reccomend you not get on a tech forum and get defensive and butthurt when people ridicule and/or have skepticism of your media.
If you know you're putting out authentic information, then keep putting it out and ignore the skeptics.

According to Forbes, Intel's i7-4790k, the enthusiast-geared Haswell Refresh replacement for the i7-4770k, will ship at 4.0 ghz stock, and turbo to 4.4ghz. With an improved TIM as promised, we could see 5 ghz overclocks achievable by every run-of-the-mill overclocker!
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2014/05/12/intel-to-release-its-first-4ghz-processor/

Good news.
 
He's got a few 290Xs that he's also dealing out...and they're not going to be at much a higher premium than the 290s.
He's talking $400ish. I personally think he's insane...but I'll certainly take advantage of his insanity!

All of my news posts regarding Haswell Refresh have featured reputable sources. Information changes.
 
The OP has been updated with a source.

When a Mac Pro is brought into LinusMediaGroup headquarters...
http://i.imgur.com/281Eftu.gif

When a Mac Pro is brought into LinusMediaGroup headquarters...
http://i.imgur.com/281Eftu.gif

A good portion of the raw materials used to make today's modern electronics are bought from poor and poverty stricken countries where war and genocide are often complexly intertwined with the obtainal of the said materials.
Apparently, earlier this year, Intel pledged to end their involvement in the purchasing of the conflict minerals used to make their products, and said they will only be buying from suppliers which have been verified as conflict-free.
Go Intel!
http://m.voanews.com/a/intel-leads-with-conflict-free-chips/1889036.html

A good portion of the raw materials used to make today's modern electronics are bought from poor and poverty stricken countries where war and genocide are often complexly intertwined with the obtainal of the said materials.
Apparently, earlier this year, Intel pledged to end their involvement in the purchasing of the conflict minerals used to make their products, and said they will only be buying from suppliers which have been verified as conflict-free.
Go Intel!
http://m.voanews.com/a/intel-leads-with-conflict-free-chips/1889036.html

When I posted the first thread on the LTT forum back around March 20esque about Intel's press event on new desktop silicon, I was greatly excited.
Apparently, it may get here sooner than expected.
According to a roadmap on an article originally on vr-zone.com, Haswell Refresh may be scheduled for 14 April, '14.
We'll see soon!
Original article on vr-zone.com
Roadmap Image: http://i.cubeupload.com/JHRVqi.jpg

*Devil's Canyon is supposed to both be a higher binned chip, and have a better TIM installed between the die and IHS, both of those improvements giving the chip a higher overclocking potential.

*Devil's Canyon is supposed to both be a higher binned chip, and have a better TIM installed between the die and IHS, both of those improvements giving the chip a higher overclocking potential.

"Ivory Bridge"