i7 4770R - any reviews? On sale anywhere?

[NTMBK]

Has anyone seen any trace of the i7-4770R? It sounded like the most interesting Haswell- high TDP, but with the L4$ and Iris Pro graphics. But I've seen no reviews, and no products announced containing it. (Obviously it's BGA, so you can't get the chip alone.) Does anyone know any more about it?

 

[Arachnotronic]

Anandtech did a review of the 4950HQ, which is basically the 4770R but with a lower power envelope.

 

[Grahamrkf]

Kind of annoying, as I'm looking forward to making a really small HTPC that's capable of gaming. But there's not a peep about desktop Iris Pro except for a spec sheet.

I suppose we just have to wait for MSI or someone to slap this into a motherboard before we see anything.

I don't think the improvements would be that much over the 4950HQ though, maybe 10% on average if we're lucky.

 

[NTMBK]

I don't think the improvements would be that much over the 4950HQ though, maybe 10% on average if we're lucky.

I'm a bit more optimistic, actually- I suspect that the 4950HQ will be throttling quite a bit when using both CPU and GPU heavily (i.e. gaming), so the extra thermal headroom should help it a lot.

 

[Lepton87]

You can built a small HTPC with a Titan inside. At first it was one of its use cases as presented by NV at launch. Small HTPC, compute and 2/3 way SLI. Well, 4770R would complement it very well indeed.

 

[wpcoe]

Will there be consumer motherboards for the i7-4770R since it's BGA? I notice that intel spec page indicates "Recommended Customer Price ... N/A" which I thought meant it was an OEM CPU only.

 

[Galatian]

All chips with Iris 5200 are slated for Q3 release.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Will there be consumer motherboards for the i7-4770R since it's BGA? I notice that intel spec page indicates "Recommended Customer Price ... N/A" which I thought meant it was an OEM CPU only.

wouldn't be much to stop an ASUS/Gigabyte/ASRock, etc from including one into a motherboard design

 

[Kallogan]

I'm curious to see at what price that HTPC beast will be available.

 

[Siree]

All chips with Iris 5200 are slated for Q3 release.

No, the desktop processors with Iris Pro 5200 were released on June 2nd. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)#Desktop_processors

 

[NTMBK]

All chips with Iris 5200 are slated for Q3 release.

Not according to Intel:

http://ark.intel.com/products/76642/Intel-Core-i7-4770R-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

 

[A5]

I'm guessing you won't find many for awhile since Apple is buying them all for an iMac refresh. There might be a small niche market for these once the OEMs get what they need for AIO designs.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Just noticed, the so-called flagship oem processor 4770R lacking Intel® TSX-NI as well as 4770K?

LMAO, where is the world going to

I'd rather get a regular 4770 with the cheapest mobo and call it a day. Alternatively, a 35W TDP i7-4765T looks just as sexy. I bet, performance per watt is quite good on this one (and you get all the features like AVX2, TSX, vPro and what not, at a very competitive TDP). Haswell was truly designed for low power.

 

[Gikaseixas]

Reviving this old thread to ask the same question. Does anyone knows when this will be available? Perfect for HTPC use.

 

[valynor]

Reviving this old thread to ask the same question. Does anyone knows when this will be available? Perfect for HTPC use.

Good news I guess: http://blog.laptopmag.com/gigabyte-brix-iris-graphics

 

[Gikaseixas]

Good news I guess: http://blog.laptopmag.com/gigabyte-brix-iris-graphics

Thanks, those are perfect for HTPC use. Iris Pro should allow some light gaming :biggrin:

 

[valynor]

Thanks, those are perfect for HTPC use. Iris Pro should allow some light gaming :biggrin:

I would say these are more than HTPCs. The CPUs (esp. the 4770R) rival any desktop Haswells and the Iris Pro part should be good for medium gaming needs (equals nvidia 750M or GTX 650). ;-)
With 8 or 16 gigs of DDR3 RAM and a nice SSD these tiny things ARE desktop PCs (minus the brutal gfx power and the upgradability)

 

[crashtech]

So, the elusive 4770R will finally appear. I'd rather just buy the board and build my own, though.

 

[ryrynz]

Any ETA on the NUC or Brix? Hopefully this year sometime..

 

[Ganesh_AT]

Happy to report that I have the BRIX Pro sample in hand.. Review coming in after CES.. Hope to do a quick run down before that, though.

 

[crashtech]

Those bright primary colors would not be welcome where I needed this PC to live. Got tired of waiting anyway, and built a passively cooled i3-4130T system.