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Haswell VS 3rd Gen

Kirikah

Kirikah

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Hello there guys, I am looking at building my own PC for around the £2000-2250 mark.

I was wondering what peoples advice were really on the CPU side of things? Would I be better to go with Intel's 3rd Gen 2011 Chipset or the new Haswell processor? I don't really hold to much of an interest of overclocking at this point so it would be just for the general specs and efficiency of the proccesor really.

Thank you!! :D:cool:
 
for 2-2.5k the only way to go is socket 2011


Grab this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-145-OE&groupid=43&catid=2512&subcat=2519

Slap it in a decent case with a top corsair psu with modular cables a couple of gtx 770s and a samsung pro ssd

EDIT Something like this

YOUR BASKET
1 x Super Nova ROG Intel Core i7 3930K 3.20GHz @ 4.40GHz DDR3 Overclocked Bundle £1049.99
1 x Standard Build Systems - Approximately 5-7 working days £0
2 x Asus GeForce GTX 770 DirectCU OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £329.99 (£659.98)
1 x Corsair Obsidian 800D Full Tower Case - Black £229.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) £187.99
1 x Corsair AX860i Digital ATX '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020037-UK) £179.99
1 x Corsair Generation 2 Sleeved Cable Kit (AXi / AX / HX / TXM) - Red £64.99
1 x Corsair Generation 2 Sleeved 24 Pin Cable (AX) - Red £14.99
Total : £2,408.14 (includes shipping : £16.85).




Pop in a dvd drive and storage drive of your choice and youve got a pc the people will drool over
 
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That does look pretty sweet! Could I ask why you'd rather go with the 2011 stuff? What's so bad about the Haswell that everybody seems to be complaining about? :)
 
 
I do need a Monitor, OS and Peripherals but I'm pretty dead set on what I want with those :) (I plan on using the Windows 8 trial for 3 months so I can save to buy Windows 7. I'm spending around £200 on a Mouse and Keyboard and a Monitor I'm going for an iiyama one that I have had previously. So as I said, anywhere around the £2000-2250 for PC components alone would be great :) I'm not going to dual SLI at the very start as I won't be using it for very demanding tasks and I don't require that much GPU power as it'll be mostly for things like WoW, CS; GO and many other games within that of area.
 
andicole0 said:
Is there still a Windows 8 trial available now it can be bought?

Andi.
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I did see somebody mention this in another thread yesterday evening, so I'd assume that you can. If not, I won't be out of pocket to the point that I couldn't buy Windows 7, I just wanted to save after the big spend! :) :cool:
 
Kirikah said:
That does look pretty sweet! Could I ask why you'd rather go with the 2011 stuff? What's so bad about the Haswell that everybody seems to be complaining about? :)
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Its not that haswell is bad if you halved your budget id have no problem suggesting it its just that for this money 2011 is the top performer.
 
Thanks for the help so far guys, I am tied between a gaming rig on the Intel Core i7-4770K or the Intel Core i7-3820, for what I have in mind with the PC I don't believe there to be a need to buy the I7 3930K... Could somebody help me decide which would be better out of the two?

Kirikah
 
Kirikah said:
That does look pretty sweet! Could I ask why you'd rather go with the 2011 stuff? What's so bad about the Haswell that everybody seems to be complaining about? :)
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HEAT, HOT HOT HOT !!! plus from what i can tell not a terribly huge performance increase and some poor clocking-heat ratio

I love my Ivy
 
Kirikah said:
What's so bad about the Haswell that everybody seems to be complaining about? :)
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It's not bad, it just didn't live up to the high expectations that people had for it.

If you're looking for the fastest quad core processor out there, look no further than the 4770K; if you run software which would benefit from more than four cores, look at going the socket 2011 road.
 
tbh said:
If you're looking for the fastest quad core processor out there, look no further than the 4770K; if you run software which would benefit from more than four cores, look at going the socket 2011 road.
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That ^^ Not sure anyone has really made it clear yet in this thread; socket 2011 offers you some 6 core options, whereas the Haswell line is "only" 4. That's the performance kick right there - IF you use software that can use it! :)
 
Really for a gaming rig the 4670k will be enough..

Though as you have the money get a 4770k..

The 3820 was comparable to the 3770k. The 4770k is 5%-10% better than the 3770k, so... Yeah.. :)
 
Go haswell, the 1155 socket that Ivy and sandy used is now end of the line. The new Z87 motherboards have more sata 3 and usb 3 than the z77 ones.
 
Another vote here for Haswell, I'd go for the 4770K as it will be better if you ever decide to sli / crossfire, remember too that you never know when games will take advantage of Hyperthreading and it's the Juiciest sexiest mainstream high end chip currently orbiting the Sun not to mention Z87 loveliness. You know it makes sense.
 
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