For those interested on Waiting for the NEW Intel CPUs

[unrinoceronte]

I just found this article with leaked pricing and some opinions regarding the new Ivy Bridge-E that will come out in a month or so (or late 2013)... Also some other general things about Haswell, etc...

 

For those of you that are interested with this matter:

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7193/intel-ivy-bridgee-pricing-leaked

[Dimitris Tolios]

Without knowing the OCing abilities for the newer IB-E 6cores, I would say the 4820K is the most interesting chip of the bunch.

It will be cheaper than the 4770K, and its higher default clocks should help it overcome the inherit IGP deficiencies of Ivy vs. haswell clock per clock.

It should be the fastest or on-par with the fastest (4770K) quad out there, and will also be cheaper.

 

As an unlocked chip with rumored superior TIM (soldered) over the Haswell line, it should overclock at least as good, if not better.

Along with a deal in a decent motherboard (new or used) this chip could be a killer for enthusiasts.

 

For stock clocks and no need for multiple cards and extra PCIe lanes (no, those don't help multi-GPU progressive renderings, only games), the 4770K and a cheap Z87 mobo combo will probably still be on-par or slightly better per $ spent.

[Tommy L]

I dont see anything to get excited about in the latest offerings from Intel. The Q6600 then the 2600k were the last substantially advantageous chips. Everything else has just nudged the envelope rather than push it. Maybe quantum computing will be my next upgrade.

[Dimitris Tolios]

Agreed 100%.

But quantum computing is quite some time ahead of us.

I think you will give in before it comes

[Josef Wienerroither]

The most interesting upcoming cpu for rendering is the 6 Core i7-4930K. I'm sure that overclockability is in the same range as with it's predecessor, the 3930K . Of course waiting for firsthand customer reports on that OC matter is always the best option and to be considered obligatory.

I'm waiting for it to hit the market since i learned from it's existence over 3 month ago.

Will be a pleasant experience when i upgrade from my current aging x3350 system...

[numerobis]

The 3910K could be another very interesting option - if it really exists and if it is a hexa core with less cache and no faster clocked quad core for maybe $400... if it clocks well!

Edited August 23, 2013 by numerobis

[Dimitris Tolios]

Well...review and benches of the 4930K have been relased last few hours in the chinese site ChinaDIY (Source Link)

 

CPU Productivity Benches

Following benches have been normalized with both chips "locked" at 4GHz overclock to compare apples to apples (as much as possible).

 

 

At least with current BIOS versions, the IB-E chip has very little to offer over existing 3930K users.

Should the latter be discounted, or should a 3910K become available that can clock decently, the SB-E based chips should remain almost identical performers.

 

Gaming Benches - for whoever cares.

 

 

Overclocking

 

Current BIOS versions do not allow better than 4.5GHz clocks to be stable with the 4930K. Temps appear to be pretty decent at that.

 

 

They did push it to 4.8GHz (not fully stable) and would still require above 1.48V, much like the 3930K. They did get validation at this speed (probably not even close to prolongued torture tests with Prime or intel burn, but should come with proper BIOS updates). At these Vcores, it is doomed to be hotter than the SB-E though.

 

Note that they've used only one 4GB dimm at low speed settings to get the Memory controller stable, in order for the validation to occur. Definitely alot of work is needed in the BIOS to overcome that.

 

Edited August 23, 2013 by dtolios

[numerobis]

There is still a little bit of hope that the retail stepping will be better overclockers. With the ES of the 3930K/3960X it was the same, if i remember correctly. But maybe not... in this case i really hope for cheaper Sandy-E's.

[Dimitris Tolios]

There is still a little bit of hope that the retail stepping will be better overclockers. With the ES of the 3930K/3960X it was the same, if i remember correctly. But maybe not... in this case i really hope for cheaper Sandy-E's.

 

There is a hype over the webs and forums that ES samples given to press are cherry picked and perform better, to uplift expectations.

At least for the SB-E, the case was that production chips did get better than the initial batches over time.

 

Also - as noted multiple times - the BIOS used in these boards is probably in its infancy as far as IB-E support goes, while pretty refined for SB-E.

Otherwise, the performance increase we see in these test, is far smaller (almost constantly half) than that s1155 IB chips (i7-3770K) had over the SB-E they've replaced (i7-2700K). SB-E was core per core and thread per thread almost indetical with s1155 SB CPUs, so we would expect a linear increase with IB-E.

Edited August 23, 2013 by dtolios

[Dimitris Tolios]

New review on the 4930K by [H]ardOCP

[numerobis]

I have seen this too, but i couldn't find any proof/hint in this article that this is already a retail chip

...but i'm afraid that it is one.