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I'll try to keep this short and sweet. The goal:
Reason for not going Haswell are two-fold: premium priced (both cpu+platform) and no non-K overclocking anymore. I'm assuming a 3.7ghz Ivy setup will beat out a 3.1-3.3ghz Haswell on performance and still come in quite a bit cheaper.
I'm not that interested in spending the extra money for a true K-setup, as I'm coming from a Ph2 X4 3.2ghz setup that has lasted me 4-5 years. I don't have the time anymore to learn the ins and outs of Haswell OCing (VDROOP, PLL, ...) and for occasional gaming, above is already more computing power than I really need for the following years.
Agree, disagree?
- i5-3350p @ 3.7ghz with 4 cores loaded on Asus Z77-A
Reason for not going Haswell are two-fold: premium priced (both cpu+platform) and no non-K overclocking anymore. I'm assuming a 3.7ghz Ivy setup will beat out a 3.1-3.3ghz Haswell on performance and still come in quite a bit cheaper.
I'm not that interested in spending the extra money for a true K-setup, as I'm coming from a Ph2 X4 3.2ghz setup that has lasted me 4-5 years. I don't have the time anymore to learn the ins and outs of Haswell OCing (VDROOP, PLL, ...) and for occasional gaming, above is already more computing power than I really need for the following years.
Agree, disagree?
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