JPM - Open discussion on next gen CPUs please?

[John P. Myers]

I will say that if you do video transcoding, definitely go with Haswell.

One of Intel's main arguments is no one needs more than 4 cores, and if they do, they can buy a Xeon. Well, Intel doesn't know us very well AMD is coming out with the Piledriver CPUs shortly. Can get an 8-core CPU for ~$260 (FX-8350). Sure it might *still* be 32nm, still only have 8MB L3 cache, still be 125W TDP, but for our purposes, it will be faster (not per core, but overall). October 23rd. 4GHz base clock speed.

Edit: oh yeah, along with everything else Haswell won't be doing, it won't be supporting DDR4 anymore either, last i heard.