What will new system cost next month?

[hackmole]

Next month Intel is coming out with the latest fastest processors and I was just wondering what a desktop system will cost with it.

Also, is anything better coming out within the next 6 months. And if I get the latest greatest next month, how long will it last before it becomes obsolete. I really don't want to buy a new computer every two years.

Finally, what is on the horizon for processor speed in the future say 10 years from now. Will there be some major breakthrough like atomic nuclear processors or are they just going to keep on putting more cores in one processor.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Cost? Same as it does today.

Better in 6 months? No.

 

[Ken g6]

For Skylake:

CPU: Should be the same.
Mobo: Might be a little more, but I doubt it.
RAM: 8GB DDR3 is going for ~$42. 8GB DDR4 is going for under $60 - and falling.

All the other components are the same.

So, no, shouldn't cost much more in 6 months.

Finally, what is on the horizon for processor speed in the future say 10 years from now. Will there be some major breakthrough like atomic nuclear processors or are they just going to keep on putting more cores in one processor.

There's lots of stuff in different labs. Processors might get GaAs. Or graphene. Or optical computing. Ten years is too far out to be sure of anything.

 

[dark zero]

Actually it shouldn't cost more... but since dollars are getting stronger and stronger... maybe if you are not from US or China, you will have a really bad time.

 

[nenforcer]

If you buy a Skylake based system next month for around $1000 like Ken suggests - you should be set for the next half decade as DDR4 and PCI-E NVMe will last you until then.

 

[Borealis7]

at the rate of improvement for CPUs the past 3 generations, a Skylake-K should last a looooong time.

 

[cytg111]

at the rate of improvement for CPUs the past 3 generations, a Skylake-K should last a looooong time.

What we've been saying since Sandy. Sandy Bridge may be the first CPU that will still be viable 10 years after its inception.

 

[Yuriman]

What we've been saying since Sandy. Sandy Bridge may be the first CPU that will still be viable 10 years after its inception.

I'd argue that a Q6600 might take that title. Aside from the idle and load heat output of 775 systems, the quad cores still make very reasonable machines. Or, perhaps something like the i7 920 / 970? The first 8/12-threaded desktop CPUs, which still have higher IPC than anything in AMD's current lineup?

 

[dark zero]

I'd argue that a Q6600 might take that title. Aside from the idle and load heat output of 775 systems, the quad cores still make very reasonable machines. Or, perhaps something like the i7 920 / 970? The first 8/12-threaded desktop CPUs, which still have higher IPC than anything in AMD's current lineup?

And how about the Intel Xeons Hexa?
Or the AMD Phenom Hexas?
Any REAL HexaCore would last enough up to 2 gens more.

 

[Yuriman]

And how about the Intel Xeons Hexa?
Or the AMD Phenom Hexas?
Any REAL HexaCore would last enough up to 2 gens more.

True, but which will be the "first" ? Although it had similar IPC to Intel's Core2 chips, Phenom II was somewhat late to the party, coming to market right around the start of 2009.

And, in the case of Bloomfield, a 2008 chip with 8 threads, AMD has yet to match the IPC. The Core i7-920 was released in 2008 and, per clock, has both better single- and multi-threaded performance than Piledriver.

 

[stockwiz]

q6600 systems hold up surpringly well but Sandy shines because of the clock speed. A 5820k system built today would last quite while as well. If I needed a system today I'd go with that along with a newer mobo that supports M.2.. Not skylake nor would I wait for Broadwell-E which may or may not show up some time in the future.

I don't see anything ground breaking coming in the next 2-3 years... They are focused on mobile and rightly so though like Microsoft they are late to the party... Perhaps too late to make a comeback.