Asus Teases Upcoming Haswell Motherboard

[jdeb]

Asus Teases Upcoming Haswell Motherboard | Maximum PC

[David M]

Let's see it Intel. Seeing is believing. We see enough vacuous promises with computer hardware already.

[birddog_61]

I am looking forward to haswell so much that I bought a 3570k and z77LK board yesterday. I don't see haswell making to big of a splash, it will be a small improvement for guys needing the very fastest possible, however I don't expect it to make much if any difference in day to day computing or gaming.

[David M]

Is this the "tick" and not the "tock"?

[birddog_61]

If I remember correctly a tick is a architecture change and a tock is a refinement of that architecture. So this would be a tick, however processors are so dang fast these days that I don't see a huge jump in performance happening all at once just from a die shrink.

http://wccftech.com/intel-core-i7-4770k-performance/

[MaxRat]

I dont think Intel is going to be in any real hurry to rush any new innovation to market with AMD not competing against them in the Enthusiast CPU markets...

[David M]

Originally Posted by birddog_61 If I remember correctly a tick is a architecture change and a tock is a refinement of that architecture. So this would be a tick, however processors are so dang fast these days that I don't see a huge jump in performance happening all at once just from a die shrink. Intel Core i7-4770K "Haswell" ES Performance Numbers Unveiled

I'm not sure which is which either. My guess is that a tock is louder than a tick. Louder meaning a more significant jump in technology. Who knows.