14 DAY TRIAL // Intel's Core i7 Extreme Edition CPUs are amazing enough on their own, and so is DDR4 memory (the latter especially since it's not available yet). Now Intel has shown the world just how great the CPUs and DDR4 memory work together.
Well, that's what I'd like to say. Sadly, while the company did show off a Haswell-E system running DDr4 at IDF 2013, the demo didn't really do much other than function.
It was just a test demo to prove that yey, DDR4 memory really is coming to the world at large in 2014.
The Haswell-E chip was used because older-generation or lower-end units wouldn't have had the quad-channel RAM support necessary for everything to work properly.
No specs or performance details were given though. Alas. The most that X-bit Labs could share was that the Wellsburg (X99) core-logic and DDR4 memory would reach us in Q3/Q4 2014.