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Is the haswell really worth the cash ??

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Hey peeps, aint bin on here in quite a while ... bin a busy year so far so had no time to do any pc related stuff. now I have a little time Id like some opinions, Now battlefield is on its way I have had my neighbour ask if I can build him a watercooled rig, Now he's after the i7 haswell processor.. what sort of differences are there between the previous i7's and the haswell in terms of gaming performance ?

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To answer the question in the title, yes.

Haswell has greater performance and efficiency over previous generations while being the same price as Ivy Bridge. It would be stupid not to buy Haswell when making brand new build.

Also, Haswell supports PCI-E 3.0 whereas Sandy Bridge does not.
 
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To answer the thread title.

If you're buying a full rig from scratch, yes (because of the reasons above)

If you upgrading from sandybridge/Ivybridge, no.
 
Yeah good call.

I've just bought a Haswell CPU for a system I'm building. The single reason I did went for Haswell over Ivybridge was so that the motherboard was socket 1150 (possibly future proofing myself a bit).

Besides that, it made very little difference to me in either price or performance - anything is going to be better than the 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo I'm upgrading from! :)
 
valkynaz said:
To answer the question in the title, yes.

Haswell has greater performance and efficiency over previous generations while being the same price as Ivy Bridge. It would be stupid not to buy Haswell when making brand new build.

Also, Haswell supports PCI-E 3.0 whereas Sandy Bridge does not.
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3570k is £180
4670k is £195

Z77 HD3 is £79.99
Z87 HD3 is £96 on offer
 
went from a 2.5 yeard old board and a sb 2500k 4.7ghz and pretty much having a ton better experience with my w8 and desktop and gaming with haswell.

new tech if one buys today.
 
JIM_BOB7813 said:
3570k is £180
4670k is £195

Z77 HD3 is £79.99
Z87 HD3 is £96 on offer
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If you looked at the first post you'd notice that he said his friend wanted an i7.

i7-4770k is £263.99 (OEM)
i7-3770k is £269.99 (OEM)

Z87 HD3 is £95.99
Z77 HD3 is £79.99

The copy of GRID 2 included with the i7-4770k can be sold for around £10.

Total cost of Haswell = £349.98
Total cost of Ivybridge = £349.98

The exact same price.
 
The question is which games will need or benefit from it, it's looking pretty dire on the pc front if you ask me I was pumped for arma 3 but it's pretty disappointing.

He'd be better off just putting together a second hand 2500k rig.
 
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C64 said:
The question is which games will need or benefit from it, it's looking pretty dire on the pc front if you ask me I was pumped for arma 3 but it's pretty disappointing.

He'd be better off just putting together a second hand 2500k rig.
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Not really. Why forego the newest tech for near enough the same cash?

As an upgrade, just wait. As a new build, definitely go Haswell.
 
I dont think an i7 4770K is worth it all unless only BRAND NEW will do.
I got an i7 2600K + Asus Pro range mobo + 8GB vengence ram + coolermaster 212 evo + stock cooler, ALL for less than the price of an i7 4770K which is not much better than an i7 2600K at gaming and PCIe 3 is not needed. If you look at real world tests PCIe 3 VS PCIe 3 card in PCIe 2 mobo there is only afew frame rates difference in most cases.
 
James any chance of a pic of your case and the insides? I see you have a WC setup and a 600t case...I'm just being nosy lol :)
 
Personally I'm pretty happy (and probably sticking with) a sandy bridge rig (2600k). Not yet pushed anything beyond stock so I should have a bit of a performance boost waiting when I get around to that.

Only thing I'm considering is a chipset upgrade from z68 to z77 for raid-0 SSD support.
 
I wouldn't bother with Haswell for an upgrade if coming from an equivalent Ivy/Sandy bridge - it's just not that much of an increase in performance. If you're coming from a Core2Quad, then it's worth it.
 
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