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Anyone stoked for Broadwell? Haswell-E?
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Start [Title says it all. Anyone pumped for the Broadwell chips later this year? Or perhaps Haswell-E? The current rumor base is that the lowest of the three new enthusiast chips will be a six core, whereas the other two will be 8. This would mean the first affordable six-core Intel chip! Add in the X99 chipset, which will support DDR4, SATA express and a number of other things, and my arousal will be measurable on the Richter Scale! But seriously, anyone else thinking of making a new build when all this comes out?]
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Sounds great really, and even greater if the architecture is going to be very overclock-able. Well, I'm looking forward to see how good the processors are going to be, though I won't upgrade, my 3770k is still doing great.
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Start [You've got a 3770K as well? :3 That's what I'm running. I'm pretty content with the CPU, but the Z77 chipset leaves something to be desired. I wouldn't have thought there was much of a difference in performance until I built a Z87 Haswell machine for my younger brother. SATA and USB seems to perform a lot smoother on his. Not that my performance is crap or anything, his just seems to sustain speeds better and stuff like that. As for the overclock potential for Broadwell, the Devil's Canyon refresh of Haswell seems to be doing well with the new thermal material they've released for it. Word is they plan to continue using that same material for future chips. You can see a review for it on Legit Reviews, I think. They weren't able to overclock it much past the 4.4 Ghz turbo point, but the thermals were pretty damn good]