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Haswell-E Timing

Sp12

Sp12

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So, I'm running a big of an old processor -- it's fine, but frankly I'm stepping up my video and photo editing. I also do gaming so AMD is out of the question.

I've done some googling but haven't found much conclusive. I'm looking to upgrade to a hexacore, but obviously haven't made a system change in a while so would like to get the most out of it. When can I expect hexacore desktop Haswell? Ivy-E doesn't look it comes out until Q3 along with Haswell.

If it's really far off, is it worth waiting for Ivy-E and the 3930K replacement or just grabbing a 3930 right now.
 
Since Ivy Bridge-E is on schedule to launch in Q3 2013, so Q4 2014 (or later) for Haswell-E is probably the case.
 
Sp12 said:
So, I'm running a big of an old processor -- it's fine, but frankly I'm stepping up my video and photo editing. I also do gaming so AMD is out of the question.

I've done some googling but haven't found much conclusive. I'm looking to upgrade to a hexacore, but obviously haven't made a system change in a while so would like to get the most out of it. When can I expect hexacore desktop Haswell? Ivy-E doesn't look it comes out until Q3 along with Haswell.

If it's really far off, is it worth waiting for Ivy-E and the 3930K replacement or just grabbing a 3930 right now.
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I think you'll be very happy with a 3930k now. You'll have the benefit of the processor now, and you won't have to speculate on future release dates. We're not even sure if Ivy-E will be worth waiting for, rumors suggest no increase in core count. Besides, Sandy Bridge is no slouch in gaming and with 6 cores overclocked you should do much, much better in both photo and video work
 
IMHO if you don't do it professionally and hence your income doesn't depend on a fast workstation I would just go with a normal consumer build using 4-core haswell.
it's much faster clock for clock while having higher clock speed. And maybe encoding will profit from AVX2 depending on the encoder you use. AFAIK x264 will have AVX 2 support.
 
Q4 2014.

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