News - Intel roadmap leak: Broadwell K CPUs to arrive early in 2015

[HEXUS]

But portables with Broadwell architecture processors should arrive before Xmas.

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[zaph0d]

tbh there's not a huge performance gap from previous gen parts to current and future gen, the main reason for upgrading is power savings and the odd new feature.
I've been on i7-920 at 3.7GHz for years and just dropped an X5650 6-core for 90 quid and it's running at 4.2GHz quite happily.
I think the earliest chance I'll upgrade the thing is Skylake-E in 2016 now.

[MrRockliffe]

The only reason to upgrade at the moment is for chipset features. If you don't need them, no point upgrading

[Pleiades]

Ahhh, more new sockets! That's what we like to see...

[abychristy]

Perfect gives me enough time for savings, I hope the new Broadwell (i7 5770k) isn't more expensive than Haswell.

[kalniel]

Ahhh, more new sockets! That's what we like to see...

Guessing DDR4 isn't pin compatible with DDR3?

[Xlucine]

284 pins (DDR4) Vs 240 pins (DDR3)

[ik9000]

284 pins (DDR4) Vs 240 pins (DDR3)

Skylake will ship with DDR3 and DDR4 controllers http://wccftech.com/intel-10nm-skyla...e-gpu-95w-tdp/

so not as bad as it might sound. Guess they realised people can't afford DDR4 just yet