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HEDT/ "-E" Musings

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tenks

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Ya know I was just thinking...It's business as usual in this era that the HEDT line is a good generation behind the mainstream desktop line..But with this broadwell glossover and skylake hitting late summer/fall, that means the HEDT/E line will be 2 generations behind now! Wow, when I thought of that, it made me rethink buying a 5820k..

Do you think this is better or worse? Better because it will "last" longer before replace (broadwell-e delayed to 2016), or worse because the HEDT performance might lag behind the mainstream line (haswell core vs skyylake core), especially if skylake is as big jump as everyone is saying it's going to be...

Also since broadwell-e was delayed, do you see them scraping it like they did the desktop (minus the iris pro varients) and going strait to Skylake-e? Is skylake-e x99 btw?
 
It doesn't matter if Haswell-E is behind. Half decent boards have 10 SATA ports at least, updated models have USB 3.1, plus a slab of ports. You won't be missing much compared to Skylake chipsets, especially compared to X79 (which is crap chipset-wise in 2015). Performance, SNB to Haswell, is what 15%? 5% increments, I doubt Skylake will be magically 20% faster just like that. 6 Haswell cores right now will last a long while - there are benchmarks where in gaming there are 5FPS+ gaps Haswell against Sandy. I doubt Skylake will change that and add another 10FPS against Haswell.
 
tenks said:
But with this broadwell glossover and skylake hitting late summer/fall, that means the HEDT/E line will be 2 generations behind now!
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HEDT is always 1-2 generations behind. Intel tends to launch it a bit after the next generation of mainstream chips launches. Haswell launched before Ivy Bridge-E, for example.

So unless BDW-E were to be exceptionally delayed, there's nothing all that surprising about Skylake launching first.
 
ViRGE said:
HEDT is always 1-2 generations behind. Intel tends to launch it a bit after the next generation of mainstream chips launches. Haswell launched before Ivy Bridge-E, for example.

So unless BDW-E were to be exceptionally delayed, there's nothing all that surprising about Skylake launching first.
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BDW-E was delayed by another 6-8 months. Haswell was only out for 2 months before Ivy-E dropped. Skylake will have been out 6-12 months before BDW-E drops.
 
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