haswell details

[craziii]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6355/i...l-architecture

everything you need to know is there happy reading.

[karamazovmm]

happy?!?! you are indeed crazy!

That just means that Im going to wait for broadwell, at least by then there will be competitors to the the yet unreleased rmbp 13

[Bolkonsky]

happy?!?! you are indeed crazy!

That just means that Im going to wait for broadwell, at least by then there will be competitors to the the yet unreleased rmbp 13

Meh. Tock. It's nothing special, I gotta agree. I don't see the reason to upgrade from ivy.

Sent from my SGH-T679

[karamazovmm]

tock is indeed where the honey is at, I dont see any reason as a SB user to move to IVB, however the performance gains on mobile for SB from clarkdale were just too great to ignore.

Things is for mobile, specially ultrabooks haswell will be great. For people like me that are more and more mobile and use the intel igpu, broadwell will be great, actually just haswell would be enough for me, but a redesign in their igpus is something that I dont want to miss

[craziii]

if you got SB or IVY, why upgrade? I got ivy too I am glad I didn't wait till this to upgrade.

[Totalheadache]

might be tempted to change out my i7 920..but will wait and see. 5.5ghz is what am after (currently at 4).

[Jaketh]

might be tempted to change out my i7 920..but will wait and see. 5.5ghz is what am after (currently at 4).

Like you need that.

[craziii]

might be tempted to change out my i7 920..but will wait and see. 5.5ghz is what am after (currently at 4).

5.5 on what? I doubt water can give you that.

[karamazovmm]

5.5 on what? I doubt water can give you that.

but ice cream woud

[Huberto]

I have an i7 920 running @ 3.4 ghz for four years would like to upgrade fairly soon, and I've been waiting for Haswell. That said, if people think Haswell is all about mobile computing and therefore would make no sense to wait, becasue the desktop gamer is getting squat performance improvement from Haswell, I'd like to know and I may just do an Ivy build now.

[Bolkonsky]

I have an i7 920 running @ 3.4 ghz for four years would like to upgrade fairly soon, and I've been waiting for Haswell. That said, if people think Haswell is all about mobile computing and therefore would make no sense to wait, becasue the desktop gamer is getting squat performance improvement from Haswell, I'd like to know and I may just do an Ivy build now.

From all the articles I've read, you're looking at 10-12% over Ivy Bridge. The reason why this is disappointing is because it provides little incentive to move to a new socket, and we were told 20-25% increase. Also, keep in mind that the gap between Bloomfield and Ivy Bridge is already a big jump.

[karamazovmm]

off course there will be a performance increase for desktops, it always does. I would wait, and along with that get a new gpu

[Crazyeyesreaper]

if people are running the older i7 920 930s etc than from them to Sandy was 10-12% from Sandy to Ivy was 5% Ivy to Haswell another 15% give or take going from Nehalem to Haswell will give a 30% increase on average which doesnst take into account new instruction sets etc.

[GasMask]

I want to build an ivy but part of me wants to build a haswell.

[Totalheadache]

Well 5ghz is not unheard of on some setups. So it's around the speed I'll be looking at min for Haswell.

Yep my watercooling setup should be able to handle it, although I might need to change out a few things.

Hopefully EK will bring out a mounting bracket for my cpu block so I dont need to buy a new one.

I might keep the 580 as a physx card (at least test it out)

[Bolkonsky]

Well 5ghz is not unheard of on some setups. So it's around the speed I'll be looking at min for Haswell.

Yep my watercooling setup should be able to handle it, although I might need to change out a few things.

Hopefully EK will bring out a mounting bracket for my cpu block so I dont need to buy a new one.

I might keep the 580 as a physx card (at least test it out)

That PhysX card will be completely useless, especially with a 5ghz Haswell.

It always feels like a shame, though, retiring good hardware.

[Totalheadache]

That PhysX card will be completely useless, especially with a 5ghz Haswell.

It always feels like a shame, though, retiring good hardware.

actually not strictly true. i recently tested a 640 with my 580 and it bumped my mafia 2 benchmarks up a good 15fps or so...

however i couldnt get the results i wanted to with borderlands 2. also the stock fan on the 640 at 30% was 2 loud for my system (it wasnt the actual loudness more the whineyness).

depends on the game ofc...

and i agree better to sell it or give to a friend maybe. wont stop me from trying it out (that's if i can run a 5ghz cpu plus a 780 + a 580 on an 850w psu etc etc).

[irishron]

If you want a piece on cpu speed and Total War, http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...l=1#post392569 is worth a read.

[Totalheadache]

If you want a piece on cpu speed and Total War, http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...l=1#post392569 is worth a read.

yeah tbh I find it absolutely amazing this isnt plastered all over this forum and the most pressing issue that needs to be addressed.

it's pretty proposterous they are getting away with it...

you know what if Rome 2 is the same it really will say a lot re CA and their attitude. Still they have time yet to fix this, maybe will see something mentioned in the next few months or so.

(you would have thought). also tied into bad loading times I think as well.

[Totalheadache]

If you want a piece on cpu speed and Total War, http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...l=1#post392569 is worth a read.

yeah tbh I find it absolutely amazing this isnt plastered all over this forum as the most pressing issue that needs to be addressed.

it's pretty proposterous they are getting away with it...

you know what if Rome 2 is the same it really will say a lot re CA and their attitude. Still they have time yet to fix this, maybe will see something mentioned in the next few months or so.

(you would have thought). also tied into bad loading times I think as well.