Haswell-E - Intel's First 8 Core Desktop Processor Exposed

[riffraffy]

Yeah, if they wanted to redesign and replace the MCH and every DIMM slot on every skt775 board, then maybe, but that's ridiculous and stupid. It's not as easy as it sounds to just move a platform from what type of memory to another. Wherever the IMC is, it has to support it. So for the example for Haswell-E, they don't just have to re-do the circuitry for the DRAM, they have to redo the IMC in the Haswell-E chip itself to process DDR4.

It's astonishing how people think that it's so easy to change a CPU or how a modern computer works, it's completely outstanding and blows my mind. The reality of it is that it isn't that easy and the more changes you make the more money, time, and effort it will cost.



Just because Intel hasn't improved performance doesn't mean that they're not innovating. I see a number of changes to Haswell that aren't CPU performance related that are worthy of note.

You're taking about redoing haswell I'm taking about from the get-go ..if they would stick to one platform longer why would that cost more money? the changes start at the CPU not the motherboard I'm a Intel guy along with 95% of after market CPU buyers because they ARE the best ,But to think they can't do better is stu------wrong.

 

[Hilux SSRG]

But to think they can't do better is stu------wrong.

I agree. Intel developed Thunderbolt and yet its not in z87 mobos. What gives?

 

[eidairaman1]

It's easy to make stuff work on a 775 socket because stuff (like the memory controller) was still on the north bridge and not integrated into the CPU. In fact, they could probably get DDR4 to work with an old Core2 on Socket 775, but they sure won't get it to work with any current Nehalem, Sandy or Ivy.

they would need a conversion chipset