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fusionblu · Jan 14, 2013, 05:18 PM

Rather than getting ahead of ourselves I believe we should just wait and when the product comes out the facts should be known by then (such as benchmarks and other tests on engineering samples that come out before the release). I'm sure that the integrated graphics in the new Haswell CPUs will be better than both Sandybridge and Ivybridge, and there will probably be improvements in general performance too.

For now it is best to not rely on what has been said so far as quite a few things have been exaggerated as a result of what people have claimed to have seen at CES; we only have to look at SteamBox (hence Xi3 Piston which was really Xi3's X7A micro PC which can run Steam on its Big Picture mode and as for Xi3 Piston that hasn't even been made and was not at CES, and no this wasn't SteamBox as Valve hasn't decided or announced what SteamBox will be) to know that.

All I can hope from the Haswell series is that it is not half-baked like Sandybridge or Ivybridge where Sata III and USB 3 isn't fully integrated yet and I hope that they integrate PCI-E 3.0 a little better into the new chipset too as I don't think it has been covered properly (just for the fact there is the Ivybridge CPUs which supports it and also the PLX PEX8747 chipset which also supports PCI-E 3.0); lastly all I would like Intel to do with Haswell is to drop the cheap thermal materials they used in Ivybridge and use the right ones like they did in Sandybridge as that can definitely be done.

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Jan 14, 2013, 05:18 PM	#28
fusionblu Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: London, England, UK Posts: 246 (0.26/day) Thanks: 14 Thanked 34 Times in 28 Posts System Specs	Rather than getting ahead of ourselves I believe we should just wait and when the product comes out the facts should be known by then (such as benchmarks and other tests on engineering samples that come out before the release). I'm sure that the integrated graphics in the new Haswell CPUs will be better than both Sandybridge and Ivybridge, and there will probably be improvements in general performance too. For now it is best to not rely on what has been said so far as quite a few things have been exaggerated as a result of what people have claimed to have seen at CES; we only have to look at SteamBox (hence Xi3 Piston which was really Xi3's X7A micro PC which can run Steam on its Big Picture mode and as for Xi3 Piston that hasn't even been made and was not at CES, and no this wasn't SteamBox as Valve hasn't decided or announced what SteamBox will be) to know that. All I can hope from the Haswell series is that it is not half-baked like Sandybridge or Ivybridge where Sata III and USB 3 isn't fully integrated yet and I hope that they integrate PCI-E 3.0 a little better into the new chipset too as I don't think it has been covered properly (just for the fact there is the Ivybridge CPUs which supports it and also the PLX PEX8747 chipset which also supports PCI-E 3.0); lastly all I would like Intel to do with Haswell is to drop the cheap thermal materials they used in Ivybridge and use the right ones like they did in Sandybridge as that can definitely be done.