Yes I sometimes have this problem
But only when the Flux capacitor on the DeLorean backfires and I find myself in 2022 again.
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Future upgrade Haswell vs broadwell(?)
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Yes I sometimes have this problem
But only when the Flux capacitor on the DeLorean backfires and I find myself in 2022 again.
IB-E in about 9 months time.
I find an Extreme edition purchase to be insanely expensive compared to the actually performance it gives in games. I might as well just buy a 3930k instead then and save more without loosing out on the framerates.
Regarding Haswell I thought it was going to be a similar release as sandybridge and ivy meaning that we will have low end, med end and High end most likely called something in the 4xxx area. If feels a bit odd to say the least if intel were only going to put out a new arch with new instruction sets and whatnot else on a low budget Cpu letting the previous gen rain supreme in the pure performance area.
Considering that the specs on wiki(I know not reliable but still a hint) suggest 100w tdp models ergo high end application and gaming cpus therefor making PCZ comment about haswell being "midranges at best" a bit odd and off. I could be wrong of course. It saddens me to admit it, but it do happen
Regarding Haswell I thought it was going to be a similar release as sandybridge and ivy meaning that we will have low end, med end and High end most likely called something in the 4xxx area. If feels a bit odd to say the least if intel were only going to put out a new arch with new instruction sets and whatnot else on a low budget Cpu letting the previous gen rain supreme in the pure performance area.
Considering that the specs on wiki(I know not reliable but still a hint) suggest 100w tdp models ergo high end application and gaming cpus therefor making PCZ comment about haswell being "midranges at best" a bit odd and off. I could be wrong of course. It saddens me to admit it, but it do happen
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chances are that by the time Haswell and Broadwell come out, there will be more compelling reasons to upgrade your entire platform - SATA 4 or PCI-e 4 or something.
I'm in the same boat having jumped from X58 to Sandy bridge, then I sold up and went back. Gaming was no faster - the only benefit for me being SATA and USB 3.
I'm going to wait and see what comes up. Irrespective of what comes out, my rig does everything that I need it to do for now (i7 950 @ 4.2Ghz on 8 threads, with 2xGTX 480's in SLI under water) - including BF3 @ 2560x1600
Does your rig do everything you want it to do?
I'm in the same boat having jumped from X58 to Sandy bridge, then I sold up and went back. Gaming was no faster - the only benefit for me being SATA and USB 3.
I'm going to wait and see what comes up. Irrespective of what comes out, my rig does everything that I need it to do for now (i7 950 @ 4.2Ghz on 8 threads, with 2xGTX 480's in SLI under water) - including BF3 @ 2560x1600
Does your rig do everything you want it to do?
At the moment it does, with the exception of BF3 but im really just nickpicking there to be honest because its so rare it dives down to 45 FPS and its only on 64 player servers that are full.
Would be nice with a pure CPU without that iGPU that could beat my old but awwsome i7 920 in clock for clock comparison by atleast 25-30% while having the same good scaling across threads as the 3930k in optimal threaded conditions like that Bullet physics test(which I hope game devs will start to use more instead of freaking PhysX, that or havoc)
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Since absolutely NO ONE has any idea as to how significant Haswell is likely to be, that means anyone here that thinks they might have even a clue about Broadwell is simply talking out of their a$$.
Personally, having gone from an i7-950 to an i7-2700K and then an i-3770K AND also an i7-3930K I can honestly tell you that the entire upgrade path has been a total waste of money in terms of chasing performance. Not one of those processors offers a significant advantage over the i7-950 (or even an i7-920) to make the cost worthwhile. I'm just fortunate enough that I have a number of different rigs for different purposes all related to my job and so I chew through high-end PC's like not many other people would.
Save your money, there's nothing out there that is worth the upgrade to what you already have, unless you're looking for better connectivity - USB 3.0, PCI-E 3.0, etc.
I seriously doubt that even by the time that Broadwell comes around that there will be software and games out there that will drive most people to upgrading anything from Core i7-920.
Personally, having gone from an i7-950 to an i7-2700K and then an i-3770K AND also an i7-3930K I can honestly tell you that the entire upgrade path has been a total waste of money in terms of chasing performance. Not one of those processors offers a significant advantage over the i7-950 (or even an i7-920) to make the cost worthwhile. I'm just fortunate enough that I have a number of different rigs for different purposes all related to my job and so I chew through high-end PC's like not many other people would.
Save your money, there's nothing out there that is worth the upgrade to what you already have, unless you're looking for better connectivity - USB 3.0, PCI-E 3.0, etc.
I seriously doubt that even by the time that Broadwell comes around that there will be software and games out there that will drive most people to upgrading anything from Core i7-920.
http://www.neowin.net/news/could-intel-kill-off-the-removable-cpu
Oops, didn't see the other thread.
Oops, didn't see the other thread.
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