frozentundra123456
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If there will a Skylake-K this year it will most likely be a 95W 4+2 SKU. I doubt we will see 4+4e SKUs till 2016 so Broadwell-K GT3e should have a fairly regular lifespan.
Quite a lot of people using Haswell Celeron/Pentium/Core i3's, massive amounts of DDR3 RAM or expensive LGA1150 motherboards have their reasons to be interested in Broadwell-K. Also some CPU applications should benefit from that huge eDRAM.
IMHO it's 1000x more exciting as a product than Kaveri Refresh and gives LGA1150 users flexibility to upgrade.
Yea, except that it is still a niche product for someone that uses the igpu or can somehow make use of the edram. Otherwise, I would just upgrade to a haswell quad with a discrete card.
When are quad broadwell mobile chips coming out, and will that have an Iris Pro variant? Honestly, I couldnt care less on the desktop about the igp. Now if they would make GT3e standard for quad laptops, and price it reasonably, that could be very attractive for someone that wanted mid/low end gaming performance without a discrete card.