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Haswell vs Sandybridge

Drkalinium

Drkalinium

Drkalinium

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I was surprised that the new Haswell CPUs are considerably cheaper than the sandybridge CPUs are they less powerful? I also noticed that the overclockers bundles for the sandybridge platform also seems to have better stuff (more RAM and better mobo) are Haswell just more efficient?
 
Depends on what you are using it for. Unless you do video encoding or a few other things that make use of the 6 cores, it is not worth the extra money when haswell is better clock for clock.
 
If you could state what you will be using your pc for, we could give you better advice.
 
What is your current i7 950 overclocked to? If already at 3.8GHz or above you won't see much of an improvement in most games unless their very heavily CPU bound like WoW or FSX.
 
I've kinda got the same dilemma got a 2500k at a reasonable OC, had it a few years now. Really fancy something new but with the cost of a new cpu and board its not even worth upgrading. Might wait and see what happens next year, just fancy a change though especially with all the new consoles out soon.
 
Huggie86 said:
I've kinda got the same dilemma got a 2500k at a reasonable OC, had it a few years now. Really fancy something new but with the cost of a new cpu and board its not even worth upgrading. Might wait and see what happens next year, just fancy a change though especially with all the new consoles out soon.
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Depending what your GPU is you might get more from updating that. Almost certainly not worth upgrading your 2500K if its overclocked.

Aside from that look at SSD's / new monitor, more monitors etc there's always something to buy :D
 
Huggie86 said:
I've kinda got the same dilemma got a 2500k at a reasonable OC, had it a few years now. Really fancy something new but with the cost of a new cpu and board its not even worth upgrading. Might wait and see what happens next year, just fancy a change though especially with all the new consoles out soon.
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I cannot tell the difference between a 4.6ghz 2500k and a 4.6ghz 4770k in general use and gaming. Unless you do a lot of CPU intense work I would not bother.
 
SB-E motherboards have to cope with 130W TDP processors so they're pretty well designed (AKA expensive :p), whereas Haswell is pretty much a laptop processor and any bog standard motherboard will handle it fine.

Plus SB-E needs quad channel memory for optimum performance so I doubt they'll bundle them with only 2x4GB configuration.
 
@OP
Haswell is not a successor to sandybridge-e.
Haswell is a 'mainstream' platform like ivybridge and sandybridge before it.

sandybridge-e is an 'enthusiast' platform. It costs more because it has features like dual x16 lanes for graphics, quad channel memory, more cores etc
 
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