haswell, IvyBridge-E or Sandybridge-E?

[Doomedspeed]

I'm looking for a new gaming PC. I will be using my ATI 7970. When haswell comes out this month should i go for that or the older 39xx Z79?

For Gaming, Haswell...

You know that the 39**'s will still be £450+ right,

Where as haswell will sit around the price of Ivybirdge £180 for the i5 and £250 for the i7..

 

[GodAtum]

yes I know, I have a few £1000 budget this upgrade cycle.

is the haswell i7 coming out at the same time as the i5?

 

[Kaapstad]

X79 is not the fastest platform for gaming but it will outlive Haswell.

The thing X79 has going for it is brute power, up to 6 CPU cores, four graphics cards, quad channel memory and an upgrade path to IB-E.

If you want a rig just for gaming for a couple of years Haswell is the better choice, if you want a rig that is still viable in 4 or 5 years time X79 is the way to go. It's a bit like you still see a lot of X58 i7 920s still going strong, they were the X79 equivalent of their day.

 

[GodAtum]

How many GPus can haswell support? What is the memory, dual channel?

 

[Kaktus69]

Not sure on GPU's but memory is dual channel.

 

[hideki]

I still don't like the idea of silicon space wasted on a sub standard GPU part I will never use. Its always going to be an E CPU for me and I'm looking forward to seeing what Intel will do with Ivybridge-E or perhaps the rumours are true and they are going straight to Haswell-E.

 

[GodAtum]

Ivybridge e 4930K might be coming out in sept

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Ivy-Bridge-E-CPU-i7-4960X,22372.html