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1055t to i7 Haswell? Talk me in or out of it

Bromhead

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I'm on the fence, but the 1055t is starting to show it's age in a couple of games and in anticipation of Rome 2 Total War and Battlefield 4 the need to upgrade may soon be upon me.

I know there's not a lot of information, but going off the basis of an i7 Ivybridge plus 5/10 percent will this be a noticeable and worthwhile upgrade?

I'm looking to get the parts on release from Overclockers should I pull the trigger. I would like some reassurance it is worthwhile or some comments on why I should hold out until next year.

All of your thoughts are appreciated. Debate and convince me either way.
 
Yeah the boost in performance looks good. I don't want the new gen of games to come out and for the 1055t to struggle.
 
well I get on with most modern games fine but poorly coded/single threaded games really suffer a lot and I spend a lot of time playing world of tanks that only uses 1 thread :|

ps3 and xboxone having 8 cores is surely going to shift game development into better multi core usage which should let x6 cpu's live on a lot longer anyway.

I don't feel any immediate need to upgrade but I know doing so will get me a large performance increase even if it's not really noticeable in a lot of games anyway (assuming your not running fraps) and I've had this CPU since launch so I've more than had my monies worth out of it
 
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depends what you play i came from a highish oc phenom and in some unoptimized games it can be close but games that use cpu power it can be twice as quick.

when i benched it arma 2 nearly double fps
skyrim was up nearly 50 fps same settings .

also i guarantee your card is held back quite a bit aswell by your cpu. a phenom bottlenecked my ati 6970 never mind a 7950.
 
Yeah, you both raise good points. In Arma 2 for instance I'm getting around 50 fps, but it can dip as low as 30 in some areas. Games which do use 1 core do suffer a lot as you said, most notably for me Shogun 2 Total War.

Not sure how to check if my GPU is being bottlenecked by the cpu, but I imagine it has more power to unleash!
 
Bromhead said:
Msi afterburner at most shows 65 percent from memory and according to afterburner
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well obviously some games wont hit 99% but the games that push the graphics should.

without AA you might not max the cards gpu usage in some games but with AA turned on in something like bioshock , metro last light etc it should easily.
 
Personally I would say you are about 10% out on your estimation.

Yes I would expect approx a 10% difference in the prices , but only after the "new kit markup" has disappeared.

Being a new premium line Intel chip - I would suspect it will be more like 20% over what the current i7's are now.

(edit - re-reading maybe you meant 5-10% performance wise)
 
I would go for the "4570K" if this will be the name :P
Or the "4770K" if you can spend more money, as the new games are starting to get benefit of the HT / more than 4 cores.
 
you wont benefit from ht in anything its a sales pitch

look in bf3 lies benefit of a massive 00000000000000.1 fps :D

maybe it will move up to a massive 1 fps in a few years with more work :p
 
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you wont benefit from ht in anything its a sales pitch

look in bf3 lies benefit of a massive 00000000000000.1 fps :D

maybe it will move up to a massive 1 fps in a few years with more work :p
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Just a little bit of an exaggeration there to say that there is no benefit to HT in anything, in applications that can use it (encoding etc.) it can give around a 20-30% performance increase. If you do a fair bit of screen capture whilst gaming like I do, the extra threads do help out. If you don't do this, the i5 is better value for money for sure, but you can't exactly say that HT is useless.
 
no in any game i have seen benched there is next to nothing in performance in games including bf3. a lot of people actually turn off ht becuase of issues ingame sometimes causing stuttering .

people on here have benched it going from a i5 3570k to i7 3770k fps difference was less than 1 fps.

99.9 percent of people will not notice anything whatsoever.
 
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