Intel 14nm Skylake desktop CPUs delayed to August
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Spets
Looks like I'm upgrading in August 😀
Bogeyx
Still Sandy-Club:grad:
But I'm really eager for Skylake. May be my upgrade
Undying
Same here. Finally a worthy upgrade for Sandy users.
HonoredShadow
How do we know it's 'worthy'?
I am looking forward to this but Intel's track record the last few years with not much change is not great.
Maddness
Unfortunately a lack of competitive competition can have that affect.
kenoh
I heard only the Xeons will have the new AVX 512bit extension, if so, Skylake-E will most likely have them and that would be my next upgrade from my Ivy-Bridge 4930k
Laci
Well, at least from this point - when considering the year our CPUs came out, they got old 🙂
They still rock, but we all like to have new technologies, more powerful and energy efficient components with less heat dissipation.
We need to wait till August, so after Hilbert has done the first benchmarks, we will decide whether to or not to upgrade 🙂
Corbus
Only you can decide that 🙂
Undying
Old or not i'm not giving away that easy my 2500k that does 4.8ghz on 1.39v. Great chip.
But yeah, we all like new shiny toys to play with. 😀
Veteran
Will not be upgrading my CPU, no need, I doubt I will get one that will clock and undervolt as well as this one anyhow.
yasamoka
It's not about lack of competition. They've hit a wall. Transistors are so small, die area is tiny, clock speed bumps require more and more voltage, and heat density is already very high. Overclocking headroom is decreasing (I had to overvolt my CPU for any sort of overclock), and more and more cores just won't solve single-threaded performance. You have a 5960X, which is clock-for-clock 33% faster than a hexa-core in very parallel workloads. Those are the benefits we get right now.
sykozis
My 2600K isn't going anywhere anytime soon. My case will get changed before my processor does.
pbvider
Finally my 2600K can have a little rest.Hope the K version will come in august!
CapKrunch
yeah i'm in same boat with yall. I love my I5-2500k and this skylake might be my next upgrade if review looks good.
Warrax
Your Sandybridge CPU is struggling in many apps/games atm? mine sure does not. Old or not as long as they perform well, there is not logical reason to upgrade other than throwing money at Intel just to have a new toy.
If the increase in IPC is very high, I can see the excitement but other than that, SB is still a top CPU.
benq
So, i'll keep my 3930K 10 more years
gUNN1993
Only thing My sandy has struggled with is star Citizen, but i'm not sure if my GPU or CPU is the bottleneck there, as they both hit nearly 100% usage during play.
-Tj-
^
If you had HT it would be better, game likes more then 4 threads.
Nah. Skylake-E in ~2017 maybe. What X179? chipset
Undying
Not really. HT is overrated. i5's would not be most popular gaming CPU's if games ware using more than 4 threads.
Core clock is still the king.
PNeV
Isn't performance relative anyways:
SB 4.6 = IB 4.4 = HW 4.2 = SL = 4.0?
Thats how I tend to see it. All the benchmarks I see in like games etc show the i5 series all within range of one another.
