Are you buying Haswell?

[Saffron]

I just purchased a gaming laptop with an i7-4700MQ in it, so yea I bought Haswell.

My desktop on the other hand has an Ivy Bridge i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz right now, so there is no need to purchase Haswell for it. I will wait for the next refresh or two and see how it goes.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I want usb 3.0 up front, and sadly, as much as I love my Silverstone TJ10, no USB 3.0 = no good for me!

Do they sell a module for it? I got one for my new TJ09s (probably bought the last 2 in the USA last Nov )

 

[Kallogan]

No. Outrageous prices for peanuts of perf.

The only way i'd buy Haswell would be mobile HQ with GT3e but since the prices and apparently the power consumption remain pretty much a taboo, it's a no go for now.

 

[psolord]

I am a desktop user with focus on gaming and my 2500k gives me quite a lot of processing power. If need be I can OC it to 4.8Ghz with ease, so Haswell cannot provide me with anything better. Not until AVX or whatever new extensions Haswell supports, become important for gaming.

I am somewhat disappointed however, since I was hoping to be impressed so I could jump to 22nm, but I was expecting something like 20% legacy IPC increase over Sandy + 5.5Ghz OC potential. This didn't come so I am not upgrading.

Let's hope that Broadwell will fulfill my requirements to upgrade, although I understand that legacy IPC is very difficult to increase any more. I could be game if the clock increase would be significant for 14nm though.


PS Did anyone catch any cpu benchmarks of Grid 2, featuring Haswell cpus? This game has an AVX executable and I'm intrigued as to what Haswell can manage in that.

 

[Arachnotronic]

I'd like a Haswell-Y series convertible tablet. While a high end Zenbook Infinity gets me excited, I'd like a 2-in-1 kind of deal with a bias towards tablet since I already have a powerful SNB desktop and IVB gaming laptop.

 

[Mgz]

haswell on laptop - yes
haswell to replace my 2500k@4.2GHz, no, not worth the hassle... changing motherboard, etc

 

[BrightCandle]

I might get one for a replacement laptop if the power consumption/performance turns out to be worth it. Really depends on how big and heavy the level of performance I want turns out to be. But on the desktop a 4770 would be a downgrade from my 3930k in my applications and in quite a few games as well. A very disappointing advance yet again from Intel. Maybe Haswell enterprise will bring more cores and make it worthwhile but that is a long way off.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I might get one for a replacement laptop if the power consumption/performance turns out to be worth it. Really depends on how big and heavy the level of performance I want turns out to be. But on the desktop a 4770 would be a downgrade from my 3930k in my applications and in quite am few games as well. A very disappointing advance yet again from Intel. Maybe Haswell enterprise will bring more cores and make it worthwhile but that is a long way off.

It would be interesting to see Haswell based laptops, however, I doubt I would be able to find a decent fanless notebook design with it. That's what I would upgrade my trusty Merom based notebook to.

EDIT: Seen some Haswell mobos with 64GB memory support but only with 16gb modules. Sucks.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

It would be interesting to see Haswell based laptops, however, I doubt I would be able to find a decent fanless notebook design with it. That's what I would upgrade my trusty Merom based notebook to.

EDIT: Seen some Haswell mobos with 64GB memory support but only with 16gb modules. Sucks.

Fan less? That's going to be hard. I don't think Haswell will bring any.

 

[Dahak]

coming from a core 2 duo, and was planning on doing an upgrade soon, I was planning on haswell anyway. I could see if i was already on SB or IB I would probably say no.

Now i just have to wait for the mb releases to decide what to go with and is if there is going to be a GTX760, or I may just go with the 770

 

[fleshconsumed]

Not any time soon, no. However, I do hope to get one or two microcenter combos around black friday to replace my aging e8400 htpc and q9450 file server. They're still chugging along just fine, but at 5+ years old it's time for an upgrade.

 

[ArizonaSteve]

Running a 3570K right now. Given Intel's glacial rate of progress I don't see myself upgrading for five years or more.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Running a 3570K right now. Given Intel's glacial rate of progress I don't see myself upgrading for five years or more.

That's precisely the rationale to get a 4770K if you're upgrading from something < SB.
Now that MicroCenter has reduced their Z87 mobo prices, the new adopter tax has dropped to only $88 for me (25%), well worth it for the 10%+ IPC increase and newer platform.

 

[Rvenger]

Is this deal only offered to certain customers? I'm considering an Extreme6, but I wouldn't mind some money off the top.

Anything saved is a good thing at launch. Its a few bones more than MC after tax, but hey, its better than nothing!


Credit to Termie for posting this link!

http://promotions.newegg.com/Intel/13-2191/index.html

 

[spamhunter]

Currently running an I7 3770k with a GTX 670 on a Z77 motherboard. Don't really see any compelling reason to upgrade to Haswell. If anything, will just upgrade graphics card.

 

[aigomorla]

It would be interesting to see Haswell based laptops, however, I doubt I would be able to find a decent fanless notebook design with it. That's what I would upgrade my trusty Merom based notebook to.

EDIT: Seen some Haswell mobos with 64GB memory support but only with 16gb modules. Sucks.

AHAHAHAHA... if u only know how hot these guys are running..

yes they dont drink any power... but some funny reason they run hotter then ivy counter parts.

 

[scannall]

Currently running an I7 3770k with a GTX 670 on a Z77 motherboard. Don't really see any compelling reason to upgrade to Haswell. If anything, will just upgrade graphics card.

There hasn't been a compelling reason to upgrade with each new generation for a long time. If I had a 3770k, I wouldn't either. But my i7-920 is getting a bit long in the tooth.

 

[Chiropteran]

I doubt it. My i7-7700 is great as a main system, and if I wanted a laptop I'd almost certainly buy a cheap AMD system because I want usable Radeon graphics instead of garbage Intel IGP with terrible driver bugs.

 

[LogOver]

I doubt it. My i7-7700 is great as a main system, and if I wanted a laptop I'd almost certainly buy a cheap AMD system because I want usable Radeon graphics instead of garbage Intel IGP with terrible driver bugs.

Sorry to disappoint you but its not the case any more. No one who reviewed HD4600 noticed any driver bugs.

Here, for example, notebookcheck.net review:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Intel-HD-Graphics-4600.93188.0.html

First of all, Intel's driver developers deserve praise. All tested benchmarks ran without graphics errors, stability problems, or other abnormalities. This could not always be taken for granted in the past.

btw, where did you buy i7-7700?

 

[boxleitnerb]

No, I'm not buying. If the thing would do 5 GHz fairly easy, I'd go for it. But not like this.

 

[Maximilian]

I doubt it. My i7-7700 is great as a main system, and if I wanted a laptop I'd almost certainly buy a cheap AMD system because I want usable Radeon graphics instead of garbage Intel IGP with terrible driver bugs.

You go to the future and bring back a Skymont or....??

 

[Chiropteran]

First of all, Intel's driver developers deserve praise. All tested benchmarks ran without graphics errors, stability problems, or other abnormalities. This could not always be taken for granted in the past.

btw, where did you buy i7-7700?

Fool me once, shame on me. I'm not going to run back to Intel after one good review, though it does sound like a positive sign. In three years if they are still supporting the 4 series IGP with regular driver updates into the latest OS I may change my opinion.

Sadly my i7-7700 is under NDA and I can't talk about it until after it's full release in 2017. Just pretend it is an i7-3770 until then.

 

[WTSherman]

I've already got my heart set on the Xeon 1230v2. I'm still holding out with a Q9550.

 

[thilanliyan]

Comeooooon Steamroller!!

 

[pm]

I bought my i7-4770K today. Still looking at the motherboards and trying to decide which one to get though...