Haswell

[John P. Myers]

Anyways...what i had originally meant to post before my CPID decided to bend me over the kichen table...

Yes. Haswell. Intel's successor to ivy bridge. Yes it might be a year or 2, but it's worth the wait. Save your money.

Personally, my plan was to sell my i7-2600K (which i did) so i could pick up an i7-3770K for the Maxwell Spanker. However, it seems MSI will not be offering the BIOS upgrade for the Big Bang Marshal. And yes, i sent them a couple of emails letting them know how i felt about that, especially since they ARE offering the BIOS upgrades on all the motherboards the kids are using to play WoW and surf porn. So yes. I learned my lesson. Never should've bought anything other than Gigabyte

What i am going to do though is buy a 2700K and be happy with what i've got. I had considered putting the Marshal on eBay and getting something else, until i read about Haswell today. For those curious, the higher-end Haswell's have a projected on-die GPU performance 2x to 3x higher than Ivy Bridge. What caught my eye though was L4 cache And not just any L4 cache, but L4 cache on a separate die, making the Haswell CPUs a 2-chip set. Also will have up to 8 cores and 32MB of L3 cache. L4 cache is rumored to be up to 1 GB.

So yes, i'll not be spending another penny on SB-E or IB. I'm waiting for Haswell.