Haswell-E uses a Soldered Thermal Interface

[WYP]

Reports are coming in that the IHS of Intel's upcoming Haswell-E CPUs is Soldered. Haswell-E could be an overclocking beast!

Read more on Intel using a Soldered IHS on Haswell-E CPUs here

 

[Dicehunter]

Nice find

1 thing that worries me about the 5960x is it's base clock, 3 jiggaherz is awfully low

 

[Wraith]

Nice catch WYP

Nice find

1 thing that worries me about the 5960x is it's base clock, 3 jiggaherz is awfully low

I initially thought that but then again 8 whole solid 100% thorough bred cores, now that's yummy! and I bet with not much tinkering would hit 4.0 - 4.2Ghz.

 

[WYP]

Nice find

1 thing that worries me about the 5960x is it's base clock, 3 jiggaherz is awfully low

Yeah, but if we can overclock it well it doesn't really matter.

They need to keep it lower to keep power consumption and heat down. Business users who need the CPU will use the 8 cores which will remove the disadvantage of the lower clocks.

 

[The_Governour]

Thats sounds very nice! I might get my self a 5930k after I see some OC reports!

 

[MadShadow]

Seems like a very good idea from Intel. Hopefully we can look forwards to this with Broadwell.

 

[Dicehunter]

Yeah, but if we can overclock it well it doesn't really matter.

They need to keep it lower to keep power consumption and heat down. Business users who need the CPU will use the 8 cores which will remove the disadvantage of the lower clocks.

True, Like Intels first 6 core CPU which was also an Extreme variant, This is a beta to see how well it does in the market, The generation afterwards will hopefully have an 8 core in the K segment, 6930K 8 Core, I hope anyway

 

[XANADV]

Nice find

1 thing that worries me about the 5960x is it's base clock, 3 jiggaherz is awfully low

Yes 3.0 GHz is quite low by enthusiast standards nowadays, but remember this is an 8-core CPU so it will produce more heat at the same clock speed than it's 6-core counterparts. That being said 3 GHz is a little low considering similar Xeon E5 parts go up to 3.4 Ghz currently.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Nice find

1 thing that worries me about the 5960x is it's base clock, 3 jiggaherz is awfully low

Like the Xeon version - its another speed binning excersise - 8 cores all working right are easier to bin at 3GHz than 4GHz

Expect faster versions later, remeber GHz isnt what the 2011 socket is about. If youre a n0000b and just see GHz buy the mainstream 1150 stuff..... or even worse..... AMD

 

[Dicehunter]

Like the Xeon version - its another speed binning excersise - 8 cores all working right are easier to bin at 3GHz than 4GHz

Expect faster versions later, remeber GHz isnt what the 2011 socket is about. If youre a n0000b and just see GHz buy the mainstream 1150 stuff..... or even worse..... AMD

But, The benchmarks require the Jiggaherzizz !!! ^_^

 

[barnsley]

Considering most professional Applications aren't single threaded anymore I'm almost wondering if the single core strength of these cpus aren't going to be much/any faster than what we have currently in a non threaded environment.

Regardless, if intel are reading this and want to send me a chip so I can prove myself wrong then please do ^_^

 

[Zoot]

I doubt it'll be any better than the 4790k when it comes to overclocking tbh.

I'm still on the fence whether I'll upgrade to it or not. I suspect a system powered by a 5930k would be good for a very long time though.

 

[XANADV]

I predict the ceiling will be @ 4.3 Ghz for most people.

 

[Wraith]

Considering most professional Applications aren't single threaded anymore I'm almost wondering if the single core strength of these cpus aren't going to be much/any faster than what we have currently in a non threaded environment.

Regardless, if intel are reading this and want to send me a chip so I can prove myself wrong then please do ^_^

It should be with the new 2011 Socket, with a vastly improved memory controller and much higher bus speeds this should perform much quicker operations per cycle. I'm actually quite interested to see computational comparisons between sockets now.

 

[Vicey]

One thing I'm surprised about is this:

The Core i7 5820K only has a 16/8/4 config. It doesn't have 16/16/8 like the other two chips. I wasn't aware that Intel were going to start differentiating their CPU's based on the amount of PCIe lanes they offer.

I'm sure it won't affect most gamers who buy these due to two card SLI/Crossfire being the most popular configuration where multi-GPU is concerned but it is curious.

I wonder if they intend to do the same PCIe lane binning on the XEON versions, Haswell-EP etc

By the way if anyone is curious, Crucial are listing DDR4 2133MHz Memory on their site. It's currently about £350 for 32GB but this is ECC memory for servers so it probably will cost more than the consumer stuff. Based on their listed price I'd say non-ECC UDIMM's the kind we'd want for an X99 system will be around £270 for 32GB (4 x 8GB Sticks). Quite reasonable in my opinion and of course the currently available ECC 2133MHz DDR4 will work in these systems too just without the ECC feature enabled.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Tbh i would have been shocked if it was not soldered. Its really the only option with 8 cores. All that heat needs to leave and intel are not dumb. They know the last cheap solution wasn't great with even 4 cores.. imagine 8 on that crappy IHS

 

[Dicehunter]

Tbh i would have been shocked if it was not soldered. Its really the only option with 8 cores. All that heat needs to leave and intel are not dumb. They know the last cheap solution wasn't great with even 4 cores.. imagine 8 on that crappy IHS

Please don't, I need a good nights sleep and that image will keep me up and have me crying in my sleep lol ^_^

 

[stampedeadam]

That core size

fap fap fap...

I am wondering about the 5820K - so it has 28 PCIe lanes - but must they be arranged 1x16, 1x8, 1x4? Why not 3x8 and 1x4? That would be great for 3-way SLI.

 

[RizeAllard]

Its good to hear that they return to soldered IHS. I can't wait for the 5930K. That will be my next cpu in my newly built rig. I would like 5960K but its will be too expensive for my budget....

3.0GHz is not too much but its not really count to much with phisical 8 cores. (As you know there were Sony Cell processors in the past runing just 1.5 GHz and can beat 3GHz of Intel P4 )

I waiting for the first benchmarks and the connected hardwares like mobos and DDR4 rams as well. I would like to know who can make the best solution for my new rig...

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

I'd rather not see that chip destroyed than seeing what the die looks like..