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First "real" Haswell CPU preview, 4670K

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phillyman36 said:
For both Sandy and Ivory bridge i have gone to Microcenter and picked up both a mobo and cpu on a Sunday the day they were released.
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Is that the MicroCenter at St. Davids, PA near Villanova University? It is open on Sundays. That's when I bought my 3770k from MicroCenter.

The poster questioning a paper versus real launch asks a legitimate question. From what I have read Intel has been producing Haswell cpus for sometime and with their production capacity I believe the lauch will be real, not a paper one.
 
guskline said:
Is that the MicroCenter at St. Davids, PA near Villanova University? It is open on Sundays. That's when I bought my 3770k from MicroCenter.

The poster questioning a paper versus real launch asks a legitimate question. From what I have read Intel has been producing Haswell cpus for sometime and with their production capacity I believe the lauch will be real, not a paper one.
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Yes the Saint Davids MicroCenter (I live about 5 miles away). I usually wake up early Sunday morning and reserve the stuff and then grab it when it opens. I'm assuming this is a real and not paper launch. Like ShintaiDK said some places online are selling them now.
 
I think the last paper release Intel did was the 1.13Ghz P3 or so. Everything else has been avaliable in millions at release day.
 
guskline said:
Is that the MicroCenter at St. Davids, PA near Villanova University? It is open on Sundays. That's when I bought my 3770k from MicroCenter.

The poster questioning a paper versus real launch asks a legitimate question. From what I have read Intel has been producing Haswell cpus for sometime and with their production capacity I believe the lauch will be real, not a paper one.
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When you bought your 3770k on launch day did microcenter already have a bundle deal for it like they do now or did that come later?
 
steviaintheraw said:
When you bought your 3770k on launch day did microcenter already have a bundle deal for it like they do now or did that come later?
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When I brought mines as far as i can remember The 3770k was cheaper than everyone else(new egg etc etc i think by like $70). I don't remember any motherboard deals but that was over a year ago.

EDIT Looks like there was a combo deal for the 3570k not the 3770k(cpu was still cheaper)

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2242419&highlight=
 
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ShintaiDK said:
Considering you can find 100s if not 1000s of stores with the CPUs already....

The NDA is lifted on sunday, so you can buy monday in stores.
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Thanks, That's what I will be doing, hopefully a nice boost from my current CPU with it. Im hoping my corsair H50 cooler will fit also, but i guess I will find out...

ShintaiDK said:
I think the last paper release Intel did was the 1.13Ghz P3 or so. Everything else has been avaliable in millions at release day.
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True, but there is a first (or second in this case) for everything
 
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The philly microcenter is mine as well, even though Im across the river in Jersey. If they have stock sunday I am there. I have everything else waiting. I just need the computer, mobo, and cooler.
 
steviaintheraw said:
The reports on potetial OC are so conflicting it makes me wary. Hopefully we'll see some good day 1 reviews
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I also heard rumors that the "usb bug" will be shipping with the first batch. One should wait for the second steppings. And so on and so on concerning other things.

I would at least wait for reviews to come out.

Yet some people are ordering already or will pick up one on the first day of launch.
 
Just curious on why Intel is launching the new Haswell chip 6/2? Its Sunday.... how strange! Anyone else excited about the integrated graphics, possibly 4K output??
 
kicksfever said:
Just curious on why Intel is launching the new Haswell chip 6/2? Its Sunday.... how strange! Anyone else excited about the integrated graphics, possibly 4K output??
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Integrated graphics on Haswell has ZERO excitement for me.

What is the point if I will stick a dedicated powerful video card inside my system?
 
People need to learn that the GPU on the Haswell is like a nvidia 280 GTX. Im assuming.

Also no 6 core version. That is because in September Ivy E is coming with 3 lines,,, 4930k Im gonna get it and my bios is ready I flashed it. Were waiting to take out this CPU and put in the Ivy E ..... gl
 
Remobz said:
Integrated graphics on Haswell has ZERO excitement for me.

What is the point if I will stick a dedicated powerful video card inside my system?
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Well look at the intel optimizations for grid 2 (extra smoke effects).

I can see in the future intel launching their own version of GE/TWIMTBP as their igps improve in the future.

Run some nice physics effects on the igp (and they can be quite serious given the fact that the igps are similar architecture wise and they can pass data over to the cpu very easily) at ZERO fps loss.
 
Enigmoid said:
Run some nice physics effects on the igp (and they can be quite serious given the fact that the igps are similar architecture wise and they can pass data over to the cpu very easily) at ZERO fps loss.
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I've been waiting for this to come to fruition ever since we started down this route of decent integrated graphics. There's no need for more than 4 fast x86 cores if software would actually make use of the iGPU for parallel workloads. Unfortunately it sounds like games are instead moving in the direction of dumping everything except graphics on x86 cores...
 
Remobz said:
Integrated graphics on Haswell has ZERO excitement for me.

What is the point if I will stick a dedicated powerful video card inside my system?
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Run OpenCL on the iGPU while you render graphics on the dGPU. Intel's Windows 8 driver now supports this.
 
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