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Reviews are popping up and you've seen some overclocks. I'm wondering if you'll upgrade or skip this all together since it doesn't have that big of a IPC increase.
Poll will follow
Poll will follow
Definitely my next notebook will be Haswell based.
My birthday itch to play with it says buy. My brain says $650 to buy a 4770k and an Asus z87 deluxe isn't worth it since i have a 3770k and a Z87 deluxe. Someone convince me again not to buy lol
My birthday itch to play with it says buy. My brain says $650 to buy a 4770k and an Asus z87 deluxe isn't worth it since i have a 3770k and a Z87 deluxe. Someone convince me again not to buy lol
Well I wouldn't upgrade if I were B. A goes along with D and E. C is a given.It's almost certainly a huge waste of money for you personally.
This is a great thing for :
(A)- Entirely new build
(B)- Someone with a locked SB who want a new build to OC on
(C)- Mobile/notebook models
(D)- Users on Socket 1156 and older, and 1366 quadcore users or 1366 hexes who are really worried about power usage could consider it, looking at the great encoding performance on Haswell. Seems almost like a 4Ghz Haswell i7 should theoretically encode about as well as a 3.2Ghz-3.6Ghz 9xx Hex, all while offering better gaming performance, overall IPC, feature set, and using half the power or less.
(E)- Anyone on S775/AM2/AM2+/etc that is dying for more power and has been holding out forever.
I am pretty sure, if there were plenty of Haswell-designed apps, this would have been a no-brainer, really. Intel shot itself in the foot, for not giving $$$ to the devs for this to happen, on launch date. Instead, we are observing dozen of reviews, that basically are killing the Intel sales.
Haswell moves IGP and mobile along nicely, which is where their focus obviously is at the moment.
This very much. I can't wait to see the Ultrabook gaming laptopsWill be keen to see what Haswell based Ultrabooks look like.
Definitely my next notebook will be Haswell based.