Socketed Intel desktop Broadwell coming mid-year Unlocked too

[ahhming]

In a press conference at the Game Developers Conference in San Franscisco today, Intel offered a few new details about its plans for a desktop version of its 14-nm Broadwell CPUs. The firm plans to release a socketed version of Broadwell in the middle of this year, and this CPU will play to Broadwell's strengths by offering Iris Pro graphics and fitting into a tidy 65W power envelope.
 
 
 As you can imagine, Intel expects this processor to play well in systems with tight thermal constraints, things like Mini-ITX rigs and custom mini-PCs.

 
Interestingly, though, this socketed Broadwell chip will also be unlocked, allowing for easy overclocking. One can imagine that enthusiasts will throw tons of cooling on these CPUs to see what they can squeeze out of 'em.

 

 

 

 

 

Most likely we see this in steam boxes.

 

 

Source:

http://techreport.com/news/27911/socketed-intel-desktop-broadwell-coming-mid-year 

 

http://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/GDC-15-Intel-Demos-Socketed-LGA1150-Broadwell-CPU-Iris-Pro-Graphics

[Deletive]

I still think that haswell will still be one of the better chips to buy. 14nm isn't going to be as cheap from what I'm hearing.

[Real_PhillBert]

Excellent.

[terrytek]

65W? great, my 100W Q6600 seems to be suffering from a case of hot flashes.

[patrickjp93]

I still think that haswell will still be one of the better chips to buy. 14nm isn't going to be as cheap from what I'm hearing.

The cost of 14nm came down a long, long time ago. Yields are way up now. What we don't know yet is if the Iris Pro 6200 GPU with 64MB Crystalwell cache will increase the price of the 5770k vs. the 4790k.