News - Intel enhances roadmap with eye on PC enthusiasts

[HEXUS]

Goodies include an unlocked 4th gen processor codenamed 'Devil's Canyon'.

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[herulach]

The portable AIO actually looks pretty awesome. I'd have one to replace the laptop (which moves between the corner of my desk and the couch) in an instant. DDR4 availability is probably the bigger news though.

[virtuo]

That's a curious preview image on the youtube player

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Enthusiast in the eyes of Intel=lets throw more marketing emphasising E-PEEN at people,so we can get them to spend more money.

[kalniel]

Very clever - refresh existing product series in a way to make it appeal to enthusiasts. Haswell extreme looks like a beast.. out of the range of us mere mortals probably though.

Enthusiast in the eyes of Intel=lets throw more marketing emphasising E-PEEN at people,so we can get them to spend more money.

I don't know - they've directly addressed the concerns of the enthusiast community - they didn't have to improve the TIM.

[wasabi]

Pentium Anniversary Edn looks interesting if they keep the prices sensible and TDP down.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I don't know - they've directly addressed the concerns of the enthusiast community - they didn't have to improve the TIM.

I expect the reason for the TIM change was not enthusiasts,but more likely OEMs,as at the Haswell launch quite a number were complaining about high temperatures.

You need to consider,that out of the socketed CPUs they sell,most are not sold to individuals but to OEMs. Enthusiasts are a small but vocal minority. The K series chips are the same as all other chips,but the artficially limits on the multiplier are disabled for a fraction of the chips and a premium is charged.

However,changing the TIM is a much larger undertaking and it will probably be for ALL refreshed CPUs,just not a small number. It would not make any economic sense to not do so,otherwise they would be having lines of CPUs with the old TIM and those with the new TIM.

Not going to happen IMHO. This is just PR.

[Jowsey]

Pentium Anniversary Edn looks interesting if they keep the prices sensible and TDP down.

This is also a lot of interest to me. I've always said I would grab an unlocked i3 for £130-ish. Could the Pentium be this? Hopefully.

[AGTDenton]

I hope to get another year out of my i7 980. It's served me extremely well. But I am looking forward to DDR4 and this new refresh. X79 just didn't have what I was looking for so glad I skipped it.
It usually takes a few months after CPU release for the decent motherboards to arrive anyway.

[kalniel]

I hope to get another year out of my i7 980. It's served me extremely well.

Yeah that's a cracker of a chip. I'm wondering whether to pick one up second hand at some point to upgrade my 950 which has likewise been amazing.

[Agent]

"Improved TIM" - Good. They should never have changed it in the first place on the K chips

[shaithis]

Devils canyon looks good but too late for me, I think I'll wait for the DirectX changes instead of throwing more horsepower at things for minimal gains.

[Corky34]

"Improved TIM" - Good. They should never have changed it in the first place on the K chips

AFAIK When they switched from solder to goop the change was because of technical reason, with shrinking die's the solder started to crack and form voids so they had to switch to goop. What has me interested is if they have solved the problems of using solder on small die sizes, or if the die has become bigger.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Devils canyon looks like the real deal for me to finaly upgrade from a i7 920

[scaryjim]

... I've always said I would grab an unlocked i3 for £130-ish. Could the Pentium be this? Hopefully.

Given they're announcing it as "Now" with quick sync and the i3s already have quick sync, it's more likely that this will be an unlocked 2-core, 2-thread, low cache chip. Given that software is starting to move towards threading and away from single-thread performance as a determining factor, I'd say an overclockable dual-core Pentium is a bit of a niche product, tbh...

[DanceswithUnix]

The portable AIO actually looks pretty awesome. I'd have one to replace the laptop (which moves between the corner of my desk and the couch) in an instant. DDR4 availability is probably the bigger news though.

Give it a few years and that will be the size of a Galaxy Note given the way screen sizes keep going up