Rumors are confirmed Intel will be launching its brand
new processor with their funky new architecture Haswell on June 2nd
this year. That’s couple of days before the start of Computex in Taiwan, one of
the biggest trade shows in the world. That means you can bet there’ll be a host
of Haswell motherboards littering the show following the launch.
What’s exciting about Haswell microprocessor?
Well, it’s based on the same 22nm silicon as the
existing Ivy Bridge chips, but sadly it’s not pin-compatible. And that means
we’ll need a whole new LGA 1150 CPU socket and subsequently whole new motherboards
to jam our processor into.Chances are though that it’s not really going to be
that much of an improvement, in desktop performance terms, over the current
generation of Intel CPUs. What it will have though is far improved graphics
capabilities – somewhere in the region of twice as quick as the Ivy Bridge chip’s
HD 4000 series graphics. The new SKUs of Intel graphics will top out at the
GT3E, which Intel is betting will be fast enough to form the basis for its own
gaming laptops, without the need for discrete graphics. And because of the
serious power-draw improvements that Haswell is also bringing to the processor
table, that should make for gaming laptops with excellent battery life and
decent graphical performance.
LGA1150
According to rumors at Wikipedia, LGA 1150 which is
also called Socket H3, is an Intel Microprocessor compatible socket which supports
the future Intel Haswell and Broadwell microprocessors. LGA 1150 is designed as
a replacement for the LGA 115 (known as Socket H2). LGA 1150 has 1150
protruding pins to make contact with the pads on the processor. Based on the
supposed leak of an Intel document, cooling systems for LGA 1155 and LGA 1156
sockets are compatible with LGA 1150, due to them having the same distance of
75 mm between each screw hole, however Intel has not confirmed this. Chipset
for LGA1150 is codenamed Lynx Point. Future Intel Xeon processors for socket
LGA 1150 will use the Intel C228 chipset.
But on the desktop side, where we all have discrete
GPUs we wouldn’t part with, there’s not a lot to entice us in. Sure, it’ll be a
little quicker, but I doubt it’s going to be earth-shattering. Anyone with an
Ivy Bridge CPU then can probably rest easy.There have also been reports that
after the launch of Haswell Intel will be shutting down its Intel-branded
motherboard division.
Here is the list of Haswell family processors.
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