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Jordan777

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Right peeps

I am in need of a yes or no answer really my specs are below etc. Been reading many comments on Haswell but not sure if its worth it for me to move from my current 2500k whats running at 4.6 to haswell from the results i have seen. I have had my system 2 years now and had no issues. Waiting for BF4 to arrive in october so looking maybe at getting 7970 or wait for 8000 series AMD cards & SSD. So what you think? should i or should i not ... got the upgrade itch you see lol

worth it ??
cheers :D
 
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Only thing I could suggest is waiting to see the reviews and see if it's worth upgrading.
The reviews should be up quite soon.
I would say that upgrading your gpu might be a good idea idea for the future as the more vram and wider memory bus would help with newer games.
 
I have a 2500k, I had the money set aside for haswell but decided to wait til next year and get ddr4 at the same time. I mainly just play BF3 and probably BF4 when it comes out so can't see any real benefit with haswell at the moment, but will wait for reviews.
 
Cheers for your comments .. gives me some sort of idea what to do next. Think i will upgrade my GPU & get a SSD then possible watercooling and new case. Reading some of haswells comments as reviews dont really think i will see much change but i will see what the reviews are like once they are out
 
Jordan777 said:
Cheers for your comments .. gives me some sort of idea what to do next. Think i will upgrade my GPU & get a SSD then possible watercooling and new case. Reading some of haswells comments as reviews dont really think i will see much change but i will see what the reviews are like once they are out
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If you don't already have an SSD, it should be the next thing you get. It will make far more difference than going from a fast CPU to a slightly faster one.
 
looks like i will be staying with my trusty old 2500k. i have been thinking about getting a Samsung 250GB SSD but what puts me off is i dont want to really re install windows etc
 
Just backup and restore, that's the way I moved from rotating disks to solid state. You can create a bootable USB stick with the backup/restore software and your drivers on it and a USB/eSATA/NAS disk for the backup.
 
Trusty old i5 2500K? Are you kidding me? I'm still on a C2D e6600 here!


Anyway, the 2500K is a great CPU and since you have had no issues and games are running well i would hang onto your money or spend it on an SSD as others have suggested.
 
Yes it will, or you can used the built in windows backup utility to make an image to another drive, swap out your ssd and restore the image.
 
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