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Haswell or is there anything else due out?

to be honest the x79 do not support more than 2 intel 6gb ports thats why ive been looking at haswell...i know its a sideways step but have 2 ssd and 4 hdd all sata 3
 
The X79 Sabretooth has 4 gb6 + 4 gb3, and I believe all the Rampage series also.

If you currently have an 2500K or better. Just hold. There is nothing on the horizon, and everything new from Intel (including Haswell-E) it will require the new socket 2011-3 and DDR4.

If you want to upgrade, X79 - 4820K might be better option, allowing you upgrade to 6 cores later on.
 
Your signature says you already have an x79 system, so a couple of addon pcie cards would be the cheapest option; they could also be used again when you do finally upgrade.
 
trouble is add in sata cards only have marvell controllers on them,not intel and they are poor in comparison
 
roachyuk said:
to be honest the x79 do not support more than 2 intel 6gb ports thats why ive been looking at haswell...i know its a sideways step but have 2 ssd and 4 hdd all sata 3
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Sorry but I am failing to see the problem here, you have 2 Intel SATA-III ports, four Intel SATA-II ports and two Marvell SATA-III ports. And you have two SATA-III devices and four SATA-II devices, where's the problem :confused:

As people have said X79 to Haswell is a side/down grade, what you gain is in no way worth what you lose. If you absolutely need extra ports because your planning to add more drives or something then just get an add in card.
 
But hard drive dont saturate sata2 only ssds do, you will see 0 benifit putting your hdds on sata3 spend the money on a second 770 youl see way more improvement
 
Whatever I say won't change the fact that plugging your SATA3 HDD's into SATA3 ports won't make a difference :p

I have a 2TB SATA3 drive on an Intel SATA3 port and an older 1TB SATA2 drive on an Intel SATA2 port. The SATA2 drive is actually quicker.

Marking up HDD's as SATA3 was just to meet the new standard. And it looks good to prospective buyers who don't realise it won't make a difference. Its a bit like buying a USB3 memory stick which is so slow it wouldn't utilise even USB2 properly.

If I had to choose between those I'd get neither, I'd get the 4820K, but that's beside the point :p
 
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