I keep reading on Broadwell architecture and wonder if it's even worth considering this for the Z97 motherboard.
I also wonder if it's even necessary to upgrade to ddr4 on some of these newer chips. I was wondering if latency would be an issue with ddr4?
If you are on Haswell, or Devil's Canyon it makes no absolute sense to jump on the Broadwell train. realistically all Intel did is improve the graphical performance of the iGPU and the IPC slightly. which let's be real if you are buying an overclockable part for gaming, or work, why are you using the iGPU to begin with?
So it doesn't make sense. HOWEVER if you are still on Sandy-Bridge or Ivy-Bridge, that's a whole other story. i would definitely advise you to go with Broadwell if you are on those older platforms and considering an upgrade.
I got a feeling that Broadwell is going to be DDR3 only, but, I could be wrong and they could definitely do what they did for LGA775 and have it to be both DDR3/DDR2 capable on the board and the CPU could support either. We might see two DDR3 slots and two DDR4 slots. I don't think there will be much issues with the latency since the speeds that are offered by DDR4 counteract the CAS latency in a way.
The speeds will definitely benefit the iGPU or AMD APU graphics in the future though.
From what Intel has said only Broadwell Xeons will support DDR4 meaning you won't be able to run an unlocked i7 with DDR4 unless Intel makes a K SKU of skylake but then you will need to get on the Z107 platform
Okay everyone, thank you for your replies. This answers my questions.
Do you want to pay twice the price for slightly faster RAM? Also no I don't think so, skylake is supposed to co me with dual IMCs to allow board partners to install DDR3 or DDR4. I am not sure how that will go though, because OEMs are penny pinchers and DDR4 costs way, way more than DDR3. And all the adverts in retail shops talk about is Ghz and GBs.
And the gains from faster memory for 95% of non-server and non-professional workloads is likely to see little in the way of performance gains. It would probably be more meaningful if they upgraded the IMCs to do 1x Quad Channel. But they will likely keep that on their more expensive platforms.
Releastically DDR4 is just a big marketing ploy, the generation after skylake will probably be the one which supports some of the larger capacities DDR4 has promised, and that is probably when DDR4 will get much faster and be less than the price of DDR3.
Broadwell will have DDR3 AND DDR4 , it's up to the mobo manufacturer to choose .
At least I remember reading that , otherwise I'm fucked , I bought 16gb DDR4 second hand to build broadwell next summer ...
FYI am pretty sure that is skylake.... Broadwell uses Z97 which does not support DDR4.
Reading up on Broadwell I did find out that it does not have anything to do with DDR4. But getting back on the subject of Broadwell, was hoping that Broadwell would've been a decent upgrade for the Z97 motherboard. And just recently finding out that Skylake needs a whole new motherboard, I will stay with upgrading to the 4790k.
The part about DDR4 was my mistake I apologize.
Yup just checked , you're right .
Hey, So I'm trying to get some other peoples opinion on what I should do:
CPU:i7 2600(non-k,OEM)
GPU: 2xAsus DCU2 670's in SLI
MB:asrock extreme 4 or sumthin
RAM:erm....1333mhz 8gb ram taken out of a HP pc
Cooler:......I can't even explain it other than shit
HDD:seagate OEM drive 2tb
SSD: samsung 840 evo
I live in Ireland where pcs are MASSIVELY OVERPRICED even while being used, so I could sell this for maybe €1300-1600 (I feel like a horrible person selling at this price)
Broadwell is DDR3 indeed
Skylake will be new platform Z170 / H170 chipset socket 1151 DDR4