(08-06-2015, 05:57 PM)SickBeast Wrote: Broadwell is even more of a turkey. It can't overclock worth beans. There are only a few outside cases where it's better even at such a low clockspeed.
As a gamer, I'd rather have a Broadwell oc'ed to 4.2Ghz than a Skylake oc'ed to 4.7GHz or even 4.8GHz. Other apps do not mean very much to me.
If non-gaming apps matter a lot, that's what the 6-core and 8-core "E" variants are for. If I really cared about apps, I'd just go for Haswell-E or wait for Skylake-E.
Looks like Intel is ready to have another "tock" on 14nm real soon - that naturally comes after something as lackluster as Skylake: Kaby Lake
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9447/intel...-kaby-lake
I'm hoping that Kaby Lake will feature the L4 EDRAM cache once again.... Seems plausible?
Ok with science that the big bang theory requires that fundamental scientific laws do not exist for the first few minutes, but not ok for the creator to defy these laws... 