When is the next round of Intel / Amd cpus due to be out?

[MountainKing]

December last I nearly pulled the trigger on an I7 4790 due to the exorbitant DDR4 and mobo prices needed for a 5820K. However, I managed to resist the urge to buy it as I have been craving for an octacore CPU
My E6600 is getting really awkward to use by the day.
Does anyone have some kind of reliable source of information on the release of new chips?
Thanks.

 

[ShintaiDK]

August or something for LGA1151 Skylake with Intel.

AMD does a Kaveri refresh on the FM2+ desktop side sometime soonish.

 

[Denithor]

e6600? Yikes! Just grab a 4790K and be done with it for several years.

There's always going to be something newer/faster coming out soon, at some point you just have to buy what you need and move along.

 

[Valantar]

December last I nearly pulled the trigger on an I7 4790 due to the exorbitant DDR4 and mobo prices needed for a 5820K. However, I managed to resist the urge to buy it as I have been craving for an octacore CPU
My E6600 is getting really awkward to use by the day.
Does anyone have some kind of reliable source of information on the release of new chips?
Thanks.

So, because your old dual core is slow, you've decided you need to quadruple the number of cores? That seems a bit silly. What will the PC be used for? If gaming is the main use, you will not get any benefit whatsoever beyond four cores.

 

[soccerballtux]

December last I nearly pulled the trigger on an I7 4790 due to the exorbitant DDR4 and mobo prices needed for a 5820K. However, I managed to resist the urge to buy it as I have been craving for an octacore CPU
My E6600 is getting really awkward to use by the day.
Does anyone have some kind of reliable source of information on the release of new chips?
Thanks.

can you explain why it's getting awkward?

I started having serious issues with my Ph2-965 but it turned out to be having only 8GB of RAM. Now I'm worried about when 32GB won't be enough.

OP, how much RAM do you have? You could pick up used sticks $20/each on ebay. This is probably not worth it. yeah. This is not worth it.

I make purchases for RAM now because the CPUs have been fast enough for so long.

 

[jji7skyline]

Get the 4790 now and reuse your old RAM. Not worth waiting for DDR4 in my opinion.

Denithor is spot on with his point, there's always something better coming out, just buy what you need when you need it.

 

[JMapleton]

I have a 530 Clarkdale and I put a SSD in it and it's made it nearly like a brand new computer. It's amazing how much difference the SSD made.

 

[escrow4]

So, because your old dual core is slow, you've decided you need to quadruple the number of cores? That seems a bit silly. What will the PC be used for? If gaming is the main use, you will not get any benefit whatsoever beyond four cores.

Except you will. GameGPU already shows late 2014 titles peaking with 6 and 8 cores. I'd go straight to a 5820K.

 

[MountainKing]

can you explain why it's getting awkward?

I started having serious issues with my Ph2-965 but it turned out to be having only 8GB of RAM. Now I'm worried about when 32GB won't be enough.

OP, how much RAM do you have? You could pick up used sticks $20/each on ebay. This is probably not worth it. yeah. This is not worth it.

PC started out with 2 gigs and about 2 years ago I added another gig. Has 3GB now on it and I'm limited to 4GB Ram on my mobo.

Get the 4790 now and reuse your old RAM. Not worth waiting for DDR4 in my opinion.

Denithor is spot on with his point, there's always something better coming out, just buy what you need when you need it.

My PC is using DDR2 memory so that is not usable I think or maybe I'm wrong? Anyways, I won't have any use for 3X1GB memory sticks. I, at least want to go 16GB RAM. I think that getting a true octacore will have me running for at least 6-7 years. Current rig is going into 9th year. On year 7-8, I noticed how slow it has gotten (relatively speaking)

I have a 530 Clarkdale and I put a SSD in it and it's made it nearly like a brand new computer. It's amazing how much difference the SSD made.

I agree. Did that too in December (SSD was going to be used with new build). PC is fast to load apps/windows but that's about it. You can feel how sluggish that e6600 is. Rendering image heavy forums/threads etc basically makes the PC crawl at times. Doing video editing is a chore. Video encoding/transcoding is slow but livable if done as an overnight job.

 

[MountainKing]

August or something for LGA1151 Skylake with Intel.

AMD does a Kaveri refresh on the FM2+ desktop side sometime soonish.

Thanks. I checked it out and it seems Skylake will be only 4 cores? Or did I not get the correct info?

 

[Arachnotronic]

Thanks. I checked it out and it seems Skylake will be only 4 cores? Or did I not get the correct info?

Intel will eventually release a 6+ core Skylake, but that won't be until late 2016/early 2017, IMO.

If you want 6 cores today, Haswell-E is the way to go.

 

[jaydee]

PC started out with 2 gigs and about 2 years ago I added another gig. Has 3GB now on it and I'm limited to 4GB Ram on my mobo.



My PC is using DDR2 memory so that is not usable I think or maybe I'm wrong? Anyways, I won't have any use for 3X1GB memory sticks. I, at least want to go 16GB RAM. I think that getting a true octacore will have me running for at least 6-7 years. Current rig is going into 9th year. On year 7-8, I noticed how slow it has gotten (relatively speaking)



I agree. Did that too in December (SSD was going to be used with new build). PC is fast to load apps/windows but that's about it. You can feel how sluggish that e6600 is. Rendering image heavy forums/threads etc basically makes the PC crawl at times. Doing video editing is a chore. Video encoding/transcoding is slow but livable if done as an overnight job.

An incremental upgrade every ~3 years, will get you more performance down the road and will be much less costly in the long run, than going all out and stretching it for 8 years.

A reasonable thing to do right now, is buy a Z97, i7-4790k, 16GB DDR3 for approx. $100/$340/$125 = $565

A bit extreme, would be to buy X99, i7-5820K, 16GB DDR4 for $200/$400/$170 = $770

It's your money, but I know what I would do...

 

[MountainKing]

What you said Jaydee makes sense and I completely agree. My experience with my current rig points in that direction. It is a case of convincing my wife of such 3 year 'recurrent' purchases. But I am definetely going to look at deals. Maybe not the 4790. Just any decent chip and then upgrade again in about 3 years... Depends on what deal I can come up with though!