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When an upgrade of Haswell will be released?

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ithehappy
ithehappy Original post #1
Jan 27, 2014 at 10:54 PM
Hi, I usually make plans for my 'tech' related expenditure, and I need to do now. I have a X58 based system, i7 960 and all, and I don't find Haswell to be much of an upgrade. So may I know what's Intel's plan to upgrade Haswell, and when? They do release an upgrade every year right? So I guess there'll be one this year too, question is when?

Thanks.
rijinpk1
rijinpk1 #2
Jan 27, 2014 at 11:08 PM
whatthefrak said:
Hi, I usually make plans for my 'tech' related expenditure, and I need to do now. I have a X58 based system, i7 960 and all, and I don't find Haswell to be much of an upgrade. So may I know what's Intel's plan to upgrade Haswell, and when? They do release an upgrade every year right? So I guess there'll be one this year too, question is when?

Thanks.
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wait till skylake launches.
ithehappy
ithehappy #3
Jan 27, 2014 at 11:22 PM
And that'll launch in 2015 or later? What will be launched this year, Broadwell? Will that be a major upgrade from Haswell?
rijinpk1
rijinpk1 #4
Jan 27, 2014 at 11:40 PM
whatthefrak said:
And that'll launch in 2015 or later? What will be launched this year, Broadwell? Will that be a major upgrade from Haswell?
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broadwell is not gonna be a huge upgrade over haswell imo, not sure though. and between broadwell and haswell, intel is likely to introduce haswell refresh which is just nothing but haswell(may be -little improvements) with the vrm taken away from cpu die(may be, not sure again).
ithehappy
ithehappy #5
Jan 27, 2014 at 11:41 PM
Uh, so I guess I'm good for this year.