Possible upgrade

[D2ultima]

I'm not really known to have patience to wait for stuff (I got a 780 2 weeks before they released the 970/980 gpu so..)

But I feel like going to the newest stuff isnt always the best thing to do..

3770K and hold out until Skylake sounds like a good idea. Skylake should be out next year, and broadwell is supposed to be barely marginal increases over haswell. MAYBE going from Sandy Bridge to Broadwell might benefit a bit, but Skylake would be measurable gains I'm sure.

[i_build_nanosuits]

3770K and hold out until Skylake sounds like a good idea. Skylake should be out next year, and broadwell is supposed to be barely marginal increases over haswell. MAYBE going from Sandy Bridge to Broadwell might benefit a bit, but Skylake would be measurable gains I'm sure.

this is speculation of course, intel has no more competition in the CPU market now so nothing is driving them forward they are not forced to bring any new product so IMHO it will take some time before any body on this planet realease a desktop CPU that would be a worthy upgrade to haswell.

[D2ultima]

this is speculation of course, intel has no more competition in the CPU market now so nothing is driving them forward they are not forced to bring any new product so IMHO it will take some time before any body on this planet realease a desktop CPU that would be a worthy upgrade to haswell.

Maybe so, but Skylake MUST get an IPC increase. Even if it's only 5%. And the skylake socket will take cannonlake after it, in case that makes a gigantic jump.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Maybe so, but Skylake MUST get an IPC increase. Even if it's only 5%. And the skylake socket will take cannonlake after it, in case that makes a gigantic jump.

again, why would intel invest that much money into R&D when they have flat out no competition...the i7-4790K is a flawless gaming CPU and the i7-5960X is a perfect workstation/power user CPU...they don't need to release anything new at this point in time they can just cash-in on the technology they've put out and it must have cost them a fortune in R&D already...all these great words you are mentionning are stuff that IMHO will never come out or at least not any time soon.

[D2ultima]

again, why would intel invest that much money into R&D when they have flat out no competition...the i7-4790K is a flawless gaming CPU and the i7-5960X is a perfect workstation/power user CPU...they don't need to release anything new at this point in time they can just cash-in on the technology they've put out and it must have cost them a fortune in R&D already...all these great words you are mentionning are stuff that IMHO will never come out or at least not any time soon.

I dunno why intel is bothering to make new chipsets. I do know that haswell has extra instruction sets and works well at low power values; better than ivy bridge. If broadwell can cash in on Haswell's low power usage but keep cool and drink less power (haswell can use 40W+ more than Ivy if OC'd to the same speeds... for absolutely no discernible reason), then broadwell could be good. From the looks of things with Broadwell's delays and such though, it's not doing that. As for why intel keeps making chips? More money for them. If you leave the market stagnant eventually everyone will end up with the same chips. Only people building new PCs ask "AMD or Intel", and AMD's chips have sunk so hard in price to stay competitive. I was told that semiconductor industry research never stops; they always keep advancing whether or not we say/do anything, but I don't know how true that really is.

 

Either way, Skylake is announced and should be shown off in Q2 2015, so we know that's being worked on, at least. It'll be a new chipset and it'll be on 14nm process. Nothing else I can really promise. But Skylake being even 5% faster in IPC over broadwell (5% faster over Haswell) means it's going to be ~13% or so, at LEAST, faster than Ivy Bridge, and a decent upgrade. Over Sandy Bridge, it'd be closer to a 20% jump.