double the speed is really putting it out there ! especially with no evidence or explanation where you see the gains.
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Itching to upgrade, wait for Haswell?
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double the speed is really putting it out there ! especially with no evidence or explanation where you see the gains.
This is the figure I've been hearing as well, which sounds reasonable.
Intel have also spoken on record of how they have made considerable improvements to the 22nm process ahead of Haswell, which sounds encouraging from an overclockers perspective:
"We have done a lot of work with our manufacturing friends [...] in order we can get into these lower power envelopes. So we can tune the process for higher performance or lower power. [...] Definitely, don't have the mindset that because it is 22nm it is the same as Ivy Bridge. The process is evolving constantly, especially if we're targeting different products."
6 cores you mean, 12 threads tut tut, for an enthusiast system you should no better
I hang my head
the thing is can I stop the itch for another 5 months, I am thinking that will be a real challenge and for a 10% speed enhancement over ivy, I think what im going to do firstly is get the graphics cards, I can go for the chip/memory upgrade later on if i want.
no , just go on andatech check benchies in a lot of things its double the speed
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/88?vs=701
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For the OP - Planetside 2 is poorly coded. Given the limited time to release I can't see it being improved any time soon. My system drops to just shy of 30fps in many places, averages 60-80fps and with very little on screen can hit 120-140fps (where it should be at all times tbh). The game is entirely CPU dependent. For every 10% overclock, I get 10% more fps (30 to 33, whoopy). Your 920 will match a 3570k clock for clock in gaming. If you want high fps in Planetside 2, do what everyone playing Planetside 1 did. Wait 3 years after release.
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This may help with the itching. Haswell's 10% ipc improvement over Ivy roughly approximates to a theoretical 27% over bloomfield, a much nicer jump than 15% ^^
100% x 1.1 x 1.05 x 1.1 = 127%
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yeah i know i played PS1 for years, im going to overclock the CPU a bit harder and go for a graphics upgrade then later on add new CPU/motherboard/ram combo, the graphics cards should cure the upgrade itch at least
Sensible. Just go for a single 7970 or 670, you'll notice it for sure.
Your original post told us your games mostly doubled in performance
I say again it won't be double the fps in most games. in apps and productive tasks yer not denying it but gaming at 1080p not double bar the very few games that are very cpu intensive.
I say again it won't be double the fps in most games. in apps and productive tasks yer not denying it but gaming at 1080p not double bar the very few games that are very cpu intensive.
I went from an i7 920 @4.2ghz to the 3570K in sig, tbh in game, (mainly bf3) theres no difference in performance whatsoever. The i7 was run with the same gpu in sig. The 3570k does run a bit cooler. The only gaming situation i could possibly see an i7 900 series being a bottleneck, is with multi gpu with current gen cards at resolutions above 1920x1200/1900x1080. I kept my second i7 930 based rig to use for any encoding tasks ill be doing.