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Haswell from 2700k

rossiboy001

rossiboy001

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I prob know the answer to this is No , But just looking for some confirmation that for my purpose there will be no reasonable improvement .
I run two 4gb 680"s and a 4.5 ghz i2700k on triple 1080p 60hz monitors
Most of the stuff I do I could manage on a tablet power , except my sons and my gaming, Battlefield/crysis type stuff for him, and Iracing, project CARS like stuff for me.
CARS seems to push two 680"s and even iracing has its moments , though its not optimised great for SLI.
I know the 680"s have limits , but would there be any improvement upgrading to haswell , or is the 2700k still more than enough to power these cards.
Obviously I wont upgrade until one or the other is holding the other one back.
It doesnt look worth while at the moment this year changing the cards for the min improvements being touted on the next generation, but who knows that may change
 
rossiboy001 said:
I prob know the answer to this is No , But just looking for some confirmation that for my purpose there will be no reasonable improvement .
I run two 4gb 680"s and a 4.5 ghz i2700k on triple 1080p 60hz monitors
Most of the stuff I do I could manage on a tablet power , except my sons and my gaming, Battlefield/crysis type stuff for him, and Iracing, project CARS like stuff for me.
CARS seems to push two 680"s and even iracing has its moments , though its not optimised great for SLI.
I know the 680"s have limits , but would there be any improvement upgrading to haswell , or is the 2700k still more than enough to power these cards.
Obviously I wont upgrade until one or the other is holding the other one back.
It doesnt look worth while at the moment this year changing the cards for the min improvements being touted on the next generation, but who knows that may change
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No.
 
A review I reado n the 4770k (yes yes, unreliable and from a chinese website) basically said that Haswell offers little performance over SB and IB, except in the IGPU department.
 
Keep the 2700k, it still has a lot of life left in it.

It is also future proofed as well, the hyperthreading will help more and more with future games.
 
I'm not sure whether to upgrade from my i7 920 that won't go over 3.2ghz

Your 4.5ghz 2700k will be fine
 
I'm in the same boat pretty much. I have a 2600K @ 4.5ghz and have been pining for Haswell to pair my with Titan, but the more I think about it the less interested I am. It's just a constant urge thinking that i'm bottlenecking the Titan somehow.

Switching motherboards and cpus is a total faff for me these days. Use to enjoy a good build, now I just do not have the time to spend on it. Between work and my 2 yr old son, I barely have time to enjoy any of my hobbies now.
 
I suppose if peope is die hard MMOs fan or RTS games, then it "might" worth it to them. Other than that...probably not.

Take Guild Wars 2 for example, a minimum fps of Sandy i5 vs Ivy i5 vs Haswell i5 on 4.5GHz is probably somewhere along the line of 25fps vs 27.5fps vs 30fps...so it's down to individual rather or not they consider the extra 5fps of the Haswell i5 over Sandy i5 is worth the few hundred quids.
 
This is getting depressing, I was looking forward to an upgrade project after two years living with a 2500K overclocked to 4.8Ghz. From my position, Ivybridge didn't cut it, now you Guys are saying Haswell is the same, come on Intel!
 
mayebaza said:
This is getting depressing, I was looking forward to an upgrade project after two years living with a 2500K overclocked to 4.8Ghz. From my position, Ivybridge didn't cut it, now you Guys are saying Haswell is the same, come on Intel!
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Be glad you can save your pennies now for better GPUs in the future as you've got at least a few years life left in that setup ;)

The prices of high end GPUs are getting ridiculous, almost like buying whole second setup :eek:
 
the1gooner said:
I am struggling to think of reasons why i should swap my i5 760 for Haswell, so you are well sorted with your 3770K.
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Silly as it sounds, play Minecraft with a load of tech and automation mods, and a graphics improvement mod, and you'll have a reason :)

High draw distance, busy areas and 1080p or up, that game will max (a single thread) of a high clocked i5 while only needing ~30% of a modest GPU. It's purely down to lazy/single threaded coding and Java (ugh... just why, why Java?) but yeah, there's a fairly popular game that demands a strong CPU to be at its most beautiful.

If Haswell can reliably reach 5GHz, with ~10% IPC boost vs my SB, then I might have to have one for even that 20% gain :)
 
Arthur Hucksake thanks for reminding me to never have kind ^^

OP You can spend them money on Watercooling push extra 200mhz out of your cpu and you dont need 2 upgrade motherboard and rest of your system plus it will be quiet :)
 
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