The 4930K is based on the Ivy Bridge architecture, not Haswell, and will be supported in existing X79 motherboards. They are expected the first half of September. I'm pretty disappointed--even though the die itself will have 12 physical cores (for IB-EP for 2P platforms in the Xeon E5 V2 line), the desktop-class i7 chips will top out at 6C/12T--even the $1k EE--meaning half of them will be permanently disabled.
Haswell-E chips will use a new socket (LGA2011-3) and be released with a new chipset (X99?). These are hopefully to be released in 2014. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [H] Greg 4930K Greg, have you heard anything about when Intel plans on releasing the Haswell 4930K? Do you think that any Haswell motherboard purchased now would work with a 4930K? Thanks w
