Need advice on a new build

jimmy123

Hi everyone,

after waiting for the new Z97 mb to arrive it looks like the cpu's are goner take longer to come out.

Since i havnt upgraded my pc for along time, was just wondering what would be  good time to buy a cpu.

I'm not it any rush ive waited 8 years i'm sure i can wait a bit longer, my patients is running abit high now.

Games are be playing this year and next will be Elite Dangerous, Destiny and Witcher 3 at 2,560x1,440

I need MB, CPU, PSU, GPU, Ram and fans got everythink else.

cheers.

Ridelynn

The only Intel CPU that's slated to come out is Devil's Canyon - it's the same old Haswell we've had for a while with a bit better heat spreader. The locked versions have a very minor clock speed adjustment, the unlocked (K edition) versions supposedly will overclock better, but there hasn't been a lot of data to tell how well they will overclock in general (I've seen they got one to 5Ghz on air, but that doesn't say how widespread or common that will be).

The difference between Devil's Canyon and Haswell will be about like the difference between Z87 and Z97 -- next to nothing significant. Haswell and DC both will work in either Z87 or Z97 - they are the same thing pretty much.

Z97 is out now, Devil's Canyon will be out retail "soon" - we are already seeing the press working and demo samples sent out, so it could be any day.

So, I would say, if you have the budget, now is pretty well as good a time as any to buy.

jimmy123

Broadwell chips will be 14nm in size, a significant reduction from the 22nm Haswell processors.

But they wont be out until christmas

 

Quizzical

Intel has been ambivalent about releasing a desktop version of Broadwell at all.  The new process node certainly allows for lower power consumption, but it's not at all clear that it will improve single-core performance.  If a Broadwell chip uses only 60% as much power as Haswell, but is only 90% as fast as Haswell, do you really want one in a desktop?  I sure wouldn't, though a laptop is a very different story.

jimmy123

Originally posted by Quizzical
Intel has been ambivalent about releasing a desktop version of Broadwell at all.  The new process node certainly allows for lower power consumption, but it's not at all clear that it will improve single-core performance.  If a Broadwell chip uses only 60% as much power as Haswell, but is only 90% as fast as Haswell, do you really want one in a desktop?  I sure wouldn't, though a laptop is a very different story.

Well this what intel has been saying.

Intel would release the first desktop versions of Broadwell-K processors – the Core i7-5770K and the Core i5-5670K – in late Q4 2014.

I don't play on laptops there to hot, i need liquid or air and lots of it