5th Generation Intel processors release date and should I wait for it?
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Murtaza110
September 7, 2014 3:44:44 PM
I am looking to get a nice "future proof" 2-in-1 laptop with a 4th Gen i7 (min. 2.2 ghz) and atleast 8 gb DDR3 SDRAM but we are 4 months away from 2015 so should I wait for the 5th generation processors? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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aerial_ace
September 7, 2014 3:56:01 PM
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aerial_ace said:
There is not point in waiting, theres always something better just around the cornercorrect. So it's up to you.
1. How badly do you need it.
2. Do you have enough funds.
if 1 is yes and 2 is no, then buy it now, but if it's vise versa then wait. If both are the same answer, then figure out which one has the most importance.
My 2 cents.
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If you don't need it right now, wait. Although it is expected to only offer a ~5% performance boost, the difference in power consumption and heat handling is expected to be huge. I'd say that's pretty useless for a desktop, however quite important for a laptop, if you're out often and want long battery life.
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con635 said:
But then you'll have to ask 'should I wait for skylake' which is out soon after!Well that is true too, but how badly do you need the 5 gen processors? If you need the battery life and the portability then wait as it will help but like you said new cpu;s get released one after another so its really up to you how long you want to play the waiting game.
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Murtaza110
September 10, 2014 4:18:00 PM
faraway1nspace
September 28, 2014 8:21:40 AM
Hi,
I have a similar question about the waiting game, so I don't want to create a new thread. Is the "waiting" vs. "buying" trade-off still the same for high-performance laptop applications (e.g., graduate school in statistics, geo-stats, parallel processing and multi-GB datasets)? It seems like the 5th gen innovations are mostly for ultrathin and fanless applications, which means that I should buy 4th gen now (will it even be possible to go fanless if you are doing multi-day computations and parallel processing?). On the other hand, the just-released DDR4 seems to be a significant innovation that will be very important to users of large datasets; so geo-stats/big-data users like me should probably wait until late 2015 or early 2016 for a >$1300 higher-end purchase?
I have a similar question about the waiting game, so I don't want to create a new thread. Is the "waiting" vs. "buying" trade-off still the same for high-performance laptop applications (e.g., graduate school in statistics, geo-stats, parallel processing and multi-GB datasets)? It seems like the 5th gen innovations are mostly for ultrathin and fanless applications, which means that I should buy 4th gen now (will it even be possible to go fanless if you are doing multi-day computations and parallel processing?). On the other hand, the just-released DDR4 seems to be a significant innovation that will be very important to users of large datasets; so geo-stats/big-data users like me should probably wait until late 2015 or early 2016 for a >$1300 higher-end purchase?
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faraway1nspace said:
Hi,I have a similar question about the waiting game, so I don't want to create a new thread. Is the "waiting" vs. "buying" trade-off still the same for high-performance laptop applications (e.g., graduate school in statistics, geo-stats, parallel processing and multi-GB datasets)? It seems like the 5th gen innovations are mostly for ultrathin and fanless applications, which means that I should buy 4th gen now (will it even be possible to go fanless if you are doing multi-day computations and parallel processing?). On the other hand, the just-released DDR4 seems to be a significant innovation that will be very important to users of large datasets; so geo-stats/big-data users like me should probably wait until late 2015 or early 2016 for a >$1300 higher-end purchase?
I would say it applies to you as well as the new type of ram will make the cpu be able to do more processes at once. Plus the increase in cpu will help speed up the calculations.
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faraway1nspace said:
Hi,I have a similar question about the waiting game, so I don't want to create a new thread. Is the "waiting" vs. "buying" trade-off still the same for high-performance laptop applications (e.g., graduate school in statistics, geo-stats, parallel processing and multi-GB datasets)?
Basic question - When do you need to start using it?
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faraway1nspace
September 29, 2014 11:03:43 AM
For the original question, regarding "future proof" computers, I think you should wait untile DDR4 and make sure you have 2-3 RAM slots.
@USAFRet -- I needed it yesterday, sadly. I think I will have to buy a cheap "get me through the next 1/2 years" replacement. DDR4 seems worth the wait for mid/high end purchases.
I'm very curious about DDR4 and statements like "3.2 billion transfers per second, which is twice the transfer speed of DDR3." According to:digital trends. I wonder if such DDR4 improvements will be realized in early releases of 5th generation intel laptops, or if there will be other limiting factors. I may have to wait more than 1.5 years to get a the equivalent of a Haswell i7 for <$2000. Anyway, I think I'll gamble on the wait.
@USAFRet -- I needed it yesterday, sadly. I think I will have to buy a cheap "get me through the next 1/2 years" replacement. DDR4 seems worth the wait for mid/high end purchases.
velo3100 said:
I would say it applies to you as well as the new type of ram will make the cpu be able to do more processes at once. Plus the increase in cpu will help speed up the calculations. I'm very curious about DDR4 and statements like "3.2 billion transfers per second, which is twice the transfer speed of DDR3." According to:digital trends. I wonder if such DDR4 improvements will be realized in early releases of 5th generation intel laptops, or if there will be other limiting factors. I may have to wait more than 1.5 years to get a the equivalent of a Haswell i7 for <$2000. Anyway, I think I'll gamble on the wait.
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@USAFRet -- I needed it yesterday, sadly. I think I will have to buy a cheap "get me through the next 1/2 years" replacement. DDR4 seems worth the wait for mid/high end purchases.Do you want to gamble your graduate studies on a "get me through" laptop for 2 years?
Is the $500-$1000 you save today on a cheapo worth the reduced performance at a critical time in your life?
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Ram may have more bandwidth but it's not the bottleneck in most cases. Getting faster ddr3 wasn't a big deal so why should getting ddr4 be either? Look at the performance increases from sbe>ibe>hwe. There's next to nothing from gaining ddr4. Broadwell nor skylake will have much improvement in performance compared to previous gens. So what is there to wait for?
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