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Haswell from 2700k
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It does take extra effort and yep is not just a case of buying and setting up a loop, although most times and adequately specced that will give you a distinct drop in sound level and some extra oc room.
If you want supreme quiteness and the performance you do have to be prepeared to spend a bit more time experimenting with setups and money on 'stuff', unless you're lucky enough to get it right straight off. Having said that some of us are just extremely fussy and slightly ocd and what we find intrusive others wont notice in the slightest.
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might wait for a year more to start looking...
Me too. Based on the benchmarks I've seen the Haswell i7-4770k should offer around double the performance of the i7-920 (at stock speeds) so hopefully that should translate into a worthwhile increase in performance.
+1, mostly because i really wanna turn my rig into mitx and finding a mitx 1156 mobo is damn near impossible, the cpu hasnt held back any games from 60 fps at 1080p yet as far as i can tell.
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2700K's still kick ass, No use in switching IMO.
I can second you that. Have noticed no difference to the few games I have played on both an i5 760 and 2700k (witcher2/bf3/crysis3/metro2033). If it werent for a fantastic b grade deal on the z77x that was too good to miss I would still be Golem'ing it. Fantastic chip and a bargain secondhand.
There is always that whispery inner voice chipping away at your willpower
Them days of huge gains are long gone = Them claims of 10% increases are only for specific scenarios and overclocking seems to get worse than SB so it all negates itself really.
Think I'll be sticking with my 2700K for a long time now - I do fancy a change but will wait till AMD catch up at least (to my 2700K @ 4.6) before I move back to them tbh.
= Them claims of 10% increases are only for specific scenarios and overclocking seems to get worse than SB so it all negates itself really.Think I'll be sticking with my 2700K for a long time now - I do fancy a change but will wait till AMD catch up at least (to my 2700K @ 4.6) before I move back to them tbh.
The only reason im considering an upgrade from x58 i7 920DO @ 4.0ghz to Haswell is that i think i may have gooshed my mobo trying to get the backplate off, if it's ok im not going to bother (will fire it up in the next 2 days to find out)......combined with my gtx580 it plays the likes of bf3 on ultra around 60+ fps....i don't think it is bottlenecking my gpu at all tbh.
Looking forward to the release tho for performance over ivy and sandy.
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It's the extra features in the chipset which is more likely to sway you
The benefit in performance of the CPUs is negligeable
The benefit in performance of the CPUs is negligeable
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2500k > 4770k? likely worth it?
I think the 2500k is a slight bottleneck in BF3 and other multi-threaded games using 2 670's.
Is it worth looking at the 4770k? I might just try and pick up a cheap 2700k for the HT.
I think the 2500k is a slight bottleneck in BF3 and other multi-threaded games using 2 670's.
Is it worth looking at the 4770k? I might just try and pick up a cheap 2700k for the HT.
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I picked up a cheap 2600K for £150 and very happy with it performance wise, however BF3 only uses 4 cores really. So the new i5 might be good, but the new i5 at 3.5ghz would probably be the equivalent of your current one at 4ghz or 4.2ghz. So...
well ... I bought a all in one watercooler corsair h80 - problem is it stopped working correctly I've had to manually set the fans via bios ... so what I did was set my cpu voltage the lowest it will go with a moderate OC 4.5 and set the fans to a lowish setting.
Noise is quite well - voltage low - system isn't too noisey - have a larger intake fan in front that is probably the nosiest ... but its not bad.
Glad you made this thread - have the 2700k myself, and while I have no plans to upgrade (money being in the way), it's good to know that I should be sorted for a while without feeling like im being hindered in performance - on a side not though, does the same opinion hold for gaming at 2560x1440 as well (I know that If I really want extra performance I should drop in 2nd gpu rather than buying a new mobo+cpu) but just curious
- have the 2700k myself, and while I have no plans to upgrade (money being in the way), it's good to know that I should be sorted for a while without feeling like im being hindered in performance - on a side not though, does the same opinion hold for gaming at 2560x1440 as well (I know that If I really want extra performance I should drop in 2nd gpu rather than buying a new mobo+cpu) but just curious