Upgrading to Haswell ? is it worth it over my setup ?

Worth to upgrade. As I can see that you got a decent motherboard. Why not get a Cheap 6core12threds Xeon L5639 at around 60quids? if you OC it to 3.4Ghz. It will beat i7 4770k very easily. :DD
 
Thanks guys for the input.
i will try it one more time through out the weekend and update the bios to F6...
if i can not get my sound card working without crashes i will have to send the board back anyway as i love my creative zxr its such a tight fit right at the bottom...
sad news about the memory issue though but i can solve that by buying some 16gb 2x dim kit with low profiles... just need to get this board working i did though manage to get into windows twice with the board on my os from my x58 board to z87 and did not even have to reformat :P

just wishfull thinking that i would not run into any issues but here they are :/ lol
 
Creative still make soundcards? Well I never.

I stopped using after the Audigy was such a massive let down, and onboards were virtually as good.
 
well guys tryed again, updated the bios and it fixed a lot of issues.
current issues are
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the hdd issue is still there but i found a work around basicly i have to start ignition, then wait 5 seconds then power up ;) then the hdd is detected properly and well im in windows :D
works with this method 100/100 times.
if i start without ignition the hdd is not detected its like the motherboard is to fast for the hdd to startup before the motherboard polls it to see if there is one ect..

and the other issue i have is i cant get my ZXR to show up at all in the last pci express slot also when i try to do it i end up with it messing around with my graphics cards where one does not show up or they both do but one is not fully working right or i get the sound card to show up but then 1 of the graphics card does not.
its a pain in the ass.....

why the hell didnt they get rid of pci sockets and stick to the small ones that way i could have used the sound card if there was a small pci express in the middle of the cards instead of a old aincent pci port

apart from that the cpu is working wonderfully temps are 29-30c idle not tryed load yet but i changed a option in the bios for a quick oc to 4.5ghz and it booted but have not pushed load yet...

seems the vid is low on this cpu aswell :VID:0.8250v

now if only there was a sound card as awesome as the zxr but in pci form :( this is really annoying my only issue now is my sound card AAAAAARHHHH lol
 
Managed to get my sound card working :D it required a chipset driver update to get it to work wouldnt detect properly without installing this express port driver :o

so now i have everything working correctly now :D
going to be testing this out for the next 4 days thouroughly to make sure everything is working properly and see what oc i can get :P

thanks for the help though :D wish people would post and tell me what i need moving from x58 to haswell driver wise or fixes i require ect dam so meny oc options in the efi bios makes my head dizzy lol coming from x58 ocing... wonder if there is any awesome modded bios`s :D
 
MagicBoy said:
You hadn't installed the latest Chipset drivers?
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Yes it required newer intel drivers to be installed
as i was coming from a os that had x58 intel drivers they where the newest versions and i thought they would reinstall ect or work, they did install but few things did not install and required a newer version installed.

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Hmmm more issues though i think its becuse im using 2 sticks of ocz blades 2000mhz and 2 sets of dominator gt 2000mhz
they should work fine though but they dont they worked in my x58 board together just fine with rapid timings.

this board though wont let me run 1600 or 1700 or 1800 or 1866
wont boot just asks me to go back into the bios to reconfigure, the memory does fine though on auto 1056 @T1 command rate but thats slow as hell lol
cant figure this one out... dam new motherboards hah
also in windows the desktop keeps auto refreshing when i press refresh the background of the desktop refreshes so does the icons its like what would happen to you if you where running in software mode but im not running in software mode, could it be the IGPU ???? do people even use that if they have dedicated graphics cards should i disable it in bios ?
 
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Yeah disable onboard gfx, what XMP settings do you get for the ram?

By the way i had issues when upgrading from i7 920 at 4ghz to 4770k but now they are solved it was well worth it as my cards were bottlenecked on the 920 yet even at stock the 4770k doesn't.
 
just go to gigabyte website and install all the drivers off there for that model mb

your x58 memory won't work aswell on z87,it'll work but not as good as memory designed for haswell

re install the graphic card drivers for your graphic card aswell if you havn't already,flickering like that is usually when your running the graphic card in basic mode as in no gpu drivers installed yet ect
 
Sycho said:
Yeah disable onboard gfx, what XMP settings do you get for the ram?

By the way i had issues when upgrading from i7 920 at 4ghz to 4770k but now they are solved it was well worth it as my cards were bottlenecked on the 920 yet even at stock the 4770k doesn't.
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yeah the cpu is great ;)
running at default cpu speed i get idle averages of 30-33c and load temps of 48-52c
and my 2x crossfire cards where running awsomely @100% gpu on both in crysis 3 for instance @63-71c ect ;)

board is great but its so new drivers need to get optimized cause its a bloody pain lol
 
wazza300 said:
just go to gigabyte website and install all the drivers off there for that model mb

your x58 memory won't work aswell on z87,it'll work but not as good as memory designed for haswell

re install the graphic card drivers for your graphic card aswell if you havn't already,flickering like that is usually when your running the graphic card in basic mode as in no gpu drivers installed yet ect
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did that and installed ;)
will disable onboard gpu once i get into bios again, btw will that remove gpu hardware acceleration for encodeing ect from the cpu or will those instructions still be enabled even though the igpu is disabled.

and about the memory yes i know there not haswell kits but they should definitly let me boot up at more than 1056mhz speeds those speeds are awfull. at least if i could get 1600 or 1866 from my 2000 kits would be sweet....

there must be a setting thats not letting them boot up i need to find settings that i can mach on all channels that will atleast let me boot up back into bios to start tightning.. untill one fails ect.
i cant even get them to boot up so that i can memtest to find out if there are even errors... and no my cards are def not in basic mode games work ect... and aero is enabled,

as for xmp settings only one of the sets im using has xmp settings and those are the dominator gt sticks.
 
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