Intel Haswell-E Coming 2nd Half of 2014 (DDR4 Supported)

[ponder]

is the socket going to change as well ? i hope not ...

New socket, LGA 2011-3 not backwards compatible as the pin layout changes.

 

[ForSure]

New socket, LGA 2011-3 not backwards compatible as the pin layout changes.

oh cool thanks for info , wonder if next haswell refresh on the intel roadmap will have any big changes besides ddr4

 

[ponder]

oh cool thanks for info , wonder if next haswell refresh on the intel roadmap will have any big changes besides ddr4

Besides the cores not really, I doubt it will offer a major performance increase for gaming but I could be wrong.

 

[MDE]

Render farm?

Not possible unfortunately.

 

[Polymathic]

Intel should of had DDR4 ram support last year

 

[xera]

Can't wait for this, 8 core + ddr 4, could well be my next upgrade... Hope apple also get up to speed for the new MBP retina update.

 

[CataclysmZA]

oh cool thanks for info , wonder if next haswell refresh on the intel roadmap will have any big changes besides ddr4

Haswell refresh will have the higher-end CPUs with solder instead of the IHS paste, but nothing in the way of DDR4. We'll have to wait for Skylake for that to happen. Broadwell still has a DDR3 memory controller.

Intel should of had DDR4 ram support last year

None of the memory manufacturers were ready for any kind of ramp-up in production and up until a few months ago Samsung was still in the testing and validation phase for their memory chips. And they would only be able to sell DDR4 to enterprises for server use and to high-end consumers who were buying the Core i7-skinned Xeons on the LGA2011 platform. Moving to DDR4 right now doesn't make sense because DDR3-L is still good enough for mobile use and doing a die shrink and a IMC change would have been a tough job.