So if I want to go six core, and don't want to wait until some undetermined time next year, ... the best choice is to wait until September and go with the 4930K and Ivy bridge board?
w At 08:40 AM 6/26/2013, you wrote:
No newer platform is expected. It is widely anticipated that Intel will continue to use the existing X79 chipset until Haswell-E and its platform update are released--probably next year. The initial reports that there was an X99 chipset in the works for IB-E are almost certainly in error. Motherboard manufacturers may choose to refresh their lineups, but any additional I/O ports would be by way of third party components as opposed to native functionality. I don't believe there's any compelling reason to upgrade from SB-E to IB-E. If I do (running a 3930k at 4.5GHz now), it'll only be because I want to. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jin-Wei Tioh Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Greg 4930K At 11:37 PM 6/25/2013, you wrote: >I was hoping to upgrade my sandy-e to ivy-e but don't know if it will >be worth it. I'm OC'd to 4.2Ghz (3930K). >Any thoughts? Unless you want the newer platform (more USB3, etc.), probably not since the IPC gain is ~3% (though a little higher in some corner cases). It would be interesting to see how an Ivy with solder TIM will overclock. -- Jin-Wei Tioh http://jwtioh.bluesonic.net "Death is just God's way of dropping Carrier Detect"
