It won't be a very effective promotion if it gets eaten.
2. IIRC, it has been mentioned that Intel is going back to solder
Given that the development resources for Haswell were devoted to prioritizing performance scaling at the low-end of power and clockspeed, I very much doubt we are going to see much added clockspeed headroom over that of what we already see with IB.
I would really like to get a new processor and I'm hoping Haswell will easily overclock to 5.0Ghz on any of the Corsair watercooling systems. Do you think it'll be likely?
I'm sure Intel has learned a thing or two about the 3D transistors since IB
Don't care how well it overclocks as long as it is a nice jump in CPU performance vs everything else, like how core2 crushed everything when it came out.
Conroe was a very wide machine. It brought us the first 4-wide front end of any x86 micro-architecture, meaning it could fetch and decode up to 4 instructions in parallel. We've seen improvements to the front end since Conroe, but the overall machine width hasn't changed - even with Haswell.
Welcome to the forums isamu99 :thumbsup:
Easily? Not likely. Even with a delidded Ivy Bridge you are looking at pushing cpu-murdering voltages at the chip to get to 5GHz with an H100.
Haswell will use differently optimized finfets, but if you look at where Intel is wanting to optimize Haswell (i.e. low power applications) we can safely assume these new finfets are more geared towards lowering power usage at low clockspeeds more than raising clockspeed.