When does the new Broadwell Desktop K cpus come out

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I'm building a computer and I am planning on getting a 4790k soon but I was wondering if I should wait for the new generation because I heard it comes out soon
 
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I'm not sure, last I heard was broadwell cpu's for desktops would be limited to the 2011 socket (x99's). It was supposed to come out already, then got pushed back on top of skylake's release. Intel didn't even want to bother with broadwell at all for desktops, so it's been a bit up in the air. They're going ahead with skylake (which will be a new socket/motherboard from haswell/broadwell). Unless you're looking to go with lga 2011/x99 and extreme edition i7's (6-8 core) with ddr4, I'd either get the haswell now or wait and plan a build around skylake which is supposed to be 2nd quarter of this year. (sometime between april and june, though i'd guess closer to june).
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Even if they do come soon, performance increases will be minimal and overclocking won't be as good due to a shift to 14nm. Get the 4790K.
 
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I'm not sure, last I heard was broadwell cpu's for desktops would be limited to the 2011 socket (x99's). It was supposed to come out already, then got pushed back on top of skylake's release. Intel didn't even want to bother with broadwell at all for desktops, so it's been a bit up in the air. They're going ahead with skylake (which will be a new socket/motherboard from haswell/broadwell). Unless you're looking to go with lga 2011/x99 and extreme edition i7's (6-8 core) with ddr4, I'd either get the haswell now or wait and plan a build around skylake which is supposed to be 2nd quarter of this year. (sometime between april and june, though i'd guess closer to june).
 
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I have read that gains should be around 10% over Haswell, i will be waiting for Broadwell myself just because i already have the z97 board and it will be the best chip for that board. Its also suppose to be more efficient on power which is nice.
 
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