TomsCore i7-4960X Preview: Ivy Bridge-E, Benchmarked

[Gikaseixas]

These chips are aimed at servers where perf/watt is a critical component of TCO. Also servers get the 12 core versions

Again, these chips are aimed at enthusiasts, they're called i7 for a reason
regardless of the arch being designed with the server market in mind, the desktop version should have higher speeds or something of the sort, even if that meant consumption cost.

 

[ShintaiDK]

So if one buy one of these, the purpose will be to build a server? Not a gaming machine?
Stop defending these smallish improvements just because it's Intel. PC advancements have been piss poor on the performance front. Efficiency improvements are great for most of the Intel lineup but performance for desktops are not that great.

You need to accept that you belong to a niche. And will be treated like it.

 

[Subyman]

Efficiency improvements for server class CPUs are very important. Becoming 10% more efficient can save datacenters thousands of dollars a month in electricity costs. The enthusiast 2011 market is so pathetically small that it would be idiotic for Intel to tailor their server class CPU line toward the enthusiast's needs. You get what you get.

Intel certainly doesn't care about geekbench wet dreams from tech nerds

 

[Kippa]

Codec wise when decoding 4k video stream, does it max out the current desktop Haswell 4 core cpus to the full, if the codec is threaded and uses all 4 cores? If so I can see a demand for more than 4 cores in the very near future.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Codec wise when decoding 4k video stream, does it max out the current desktop Haswell 4 core cpus to the full, if the codec is threaded and uses all 4 cores? If so I can see a demand for more than 4 cores in the very near future.

Depends, IB and HW IGP supports 4K decode. So CPU load would be minimalistic if its a supported codec.

 

[mavere]

Codec wise when decoding 4k video stream, does it max out the current desktop Haswell 4 core cpus to the full, if the codec is threaded and uses all 4 cores? If so I can see a demand for more than 4 cores in the very near future.

Current in-use codecs are already hardware accelerated on most modern desktops. WebM/VP8 might be the exception here, but it's a minor concern.

4K HEVC has been shown to be software decodable at realtime on an A15, so there's that.

 

[adamthecoder]

1) If I have a buy LGA-2011 now, like the cliky, will it work with the Ivy Bridge-E's coming out this september?

2) Are new motherboards usually released with processors?

 

[Idontcare]

1) If I have a buy LGA-2011 now, like the cliky, will it work with the Ivy Bridge-E's coming out this september?

2) Are new motherboards usually released with processors?

Welcome to the forums adamthecoder :thumbsup:

It should work with a simple BIOS update. But there is no guarantee until IBE is released and Asus (your example mobo maker) states that it is supported with certainty.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Welcome to the forums adamthecoder :thumbsup:

It should work with a simple BIOS update. But there is no guarantee until IBE is released and Asus (your example mobo maker) states that it is supported with certainty.

At least you don't have an eVGA mobo. Their support / quality is just shameful.

 

[crashtech]

Amazing to me there is no word on motherboard support for these upcoming enthusiast CPUs. It could be taken as a sign of how insignificant the IB-E is in the scheme of things, you tell me.

 

[escrow4]

I forsee my 3930K easily lasting another 2-3yrs at this rate, even at a mild 4.1GHz overclock. One less thing to upgrade is always nice.

 

[Zodiark1593]

More cores would be useful if people actually did stuff with their computers. We don't really do stuff with our home PCs though.

Usually we are using them as rather expensive entertainment systems, and that can be done with just a few fast cores, an internet connection, and a decent graphical output device.

More cores is great if you are really into multi-tasking low-threaded apps that are doing stuff in the background. Gaming while video transcoding in the background is an example of that.

But how many people realistically try and load up their computer to do as much as possible in a finite period of time?

It just isn't a common user scenario with today's entertainment-seeking consumer.

Blender would like to say hi. That program has a neigh insatiable appetite for CPU power once you get a complex scene rendering.

Unfortunately though, hobbyist 3d rendering is probably an even smaller niche than PC enthusiasts. :|

 

[SammichPG]

Especially when it's so easy to just pop the heat spreader off and put whatever you want in there. It's wierd why this is such a big deal. To an enthusiast this kind of thing should be considered par for the course.

http://i.imgur.com/RVWVvJq.jpg

Blender would like to say hi. That program has a neigh insatiable appetite for CPU power once you get a complex scene rendering.

Unfortunately though, hobbyist 3d rendering is probably an even smaller niche than PC enthusiasts. :|

Haven't looked into it, but network distributed rendering seems like a good idea.
Ideally you could scale it up with bargain bin hardware without incurring in many network bottlenecks, it's not power friendly and easy to manage though.