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Official Haswell review thread

Sliver said:
It's old ? It's slow !!!! lmao. Is that an argument against it lmao ? It does everything I want it to with ease right now, so 'old' or not, that is a fallacious argument. How is it slow ? It runs all my apps and games with absolute ease, it's not slow at all. Seriously, what are you talking about ?

'HT' is only for those who need it. Some of us are gamers and don't need 'HT', so again not important.

Unless you are a 'Must have the latest tech freak' then an upgrade from SB to Haswell is really not worth it by any stretch. Especially when you factor in a new mobo. :rolleyes:
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I was only joking ofc, couldn't resist. Would be a bit rich coming from someone still on an i7 920... It's probably just about worth it for me to upgrade, but for you not so much.
 
Dissapointing , But every cloud has a silver lining, With The money Iv saved from not buying a new motheboard,CPU,and Video cards, With the £1700 approx, I can buy a nice telly and go on holiday, And still have some money for a fish supper.
Thank you intel & nvidia:)
 
Looks like upgrading to haswell is only worth it if coming from am3+, the last 3 generations of Intel is still good enough. But saying that a rumoured vishera refresh next month could even things out more.
 
rossiboy001 said:
Dissapointing , But every cloud has a silver lining, With The money Iv saved from not buying a new motheboard,CPU,and Video cards, With the £1700 approx, I can buy a nice telly and go on holiday, And still have some money for a fish supper.
Thank you intel & nvidia:)
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Have to agree. My rig below (excluding the 6950) is now over 4 years. I have realised that extra performance isn't really worth it for me, until everything including games start stuttering.
 
Looks like i will be sticking with my overclocked i5 2500k for a little while longer yet then :/.

When are we going to get get a real big leap in CPU performance? Sandybridge -> Ivybridge -> Haswell all seem to be very incremental.
 
Jono8 said:
Looks like i will be sticking with my overclocked i5 2500k for a little while longer yet then :/.

When are we going to get get a real big leap in CPU performance? Sandybridge -> Ivybridge -> Haswell all seem to be very incremental.
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Let me check my crystal ball...

Seems unlikely to me. Unless we hit some amazing new tech, we've reached almost the limit of the current technology.
 
So the dye is super tight to the IHS when place back on then???, as this stuff it much much thinner than your normal thermal paste, was just wondering if the liquid ultra would have been better?

Have just bought 4 x Intel Celeron 2.66GHz 256K LGA 775 CPU's for £5 to test on and see how difficult it will be to delid a CPU. ill give the vice, bit of wood and mallet method a go on 1 of them. I was wondering if heating the top of the CPU with a heat gun would make the glue easier to remove?

Think one of these would be a handy investment aswell....

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Would stop the blade from slipping into the dye by accident as well
 
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What kind of performance increase would i expect from my old faithful Q6600 @ 3.2 GHZ?
Should i go for Haswell or Ivy bridge?
 
meh will ride the q6600 out till the next one comes out or the one after that.

Cant think of anything that i would gain by replacing it, the few games i play work fine and smooth video project plays 1080p just fine. Money saved to go for the new xbox or even a ps4.
 
lettuce said:
So the dye is super tight to the IHS when place back on then???, as this stuff it much much thinner than your normal thermal paste, was just wondering if the liquid ultra would have been better?

Have just bought 4 x Intel Celeron 2.66GHz 256K LGA 775 CPU's for £5 to test on and see how difficult it will be to delid a CPU. ill give the vice, bit of wood and mallet method a go on 1 of them. I was wondering if heating the top of the CPU with a heat gun would make the glue easier to remove?

Think one of these would be a handy investment aswell....

Would stop the blade from slipping into the dye by accident as well
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I think those older socket 775 chips were flux soldered, if you try removing the IHS using the vice and wooden block method you will most likely remove the IHS as well as the core from the PCB.
 
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