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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

Besty said:
For those wondering where the extra power/cores will go, look no further than the new Sony/Microsoft consoles for inspiration. Starting with Crysis 3 there is a trend for using more than 4 cores. 4 will be the minimum with an additional 2 for the OS and 2 for AI/Physics = 8 Cores/16 threads. We can see where this is heading for us enthusiasts, more $$$ to get the best experience. 4 Cores will still provide a good experience by default but it will no longer provide the best, 8 Cores will be the benchmark, around 7-8 months from now.
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An interesting prediction. I'm not sure I agree with the time scale, but I do with the general gist of it. There's little doubt that console shenanigans will have a significant impact on PC gaming. If Intel don't release higher core counts into the mainstream soon then AMD will start looking allot more attractive for gamer's rigs.
 
glad I'm not the only one getting excited lol

I do love my 3570k and sniper m3 but still can't wait haha the problem I suppose with working with the latest tech all the time.
 
khodos said:
they said the same with C2D e8400 vs Q6600, and they were wrong...
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ha yeah i got completely trolled on another forum when i suggested someone get a q6600 or q9450 over an e8400! now 4 years on an e8400 is obsolete and a q6600 or q9450 can still run all games well with a decent gpu.
 
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khodos said:
they said the same with C2D e8400 vs Q6600, and they were wrong...
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If I remember correctly "they" mostly said something along the lines of "dual cores overclock better than quad cores now, and by the time games are optimised for quad cores the Q6600 will be obsolete."

So yeah they were wrong, but only because the rate of progress in CPU technology has slowed sufficiently that a 5+ year old CPU is no longer considered obsolete.
 
HighlandeR said:
Hear that so well.... had the upgrade bug for what 5 years now lol been stuck on this Q6600 with mechanical green hdds and Radeon 5850 era.... But haswell will be my total upgrade, with hopefully Samsung/Crucial M5 SSD to go with.

Its such a shame ATI/Nvidia are not releasing newer updated cards this year but ill wait on them next year I guess.
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snap on current hardware (its lasted very well) and Haswell upgrade aspirations. I hope that the release of a new cpu/socket and the likely? increase in system upgrades this must bring, encourages the gpu vendors to update their mainstream offerings this year.

Ideally i would want to just get a new graphics card and hold of on system upgrade a bit longer, to tide me over until haswell-e specs/release schedule is out. q6600 @ 3.6ghz is still enough.
 
Razor Time said:
Preview of Haswell with benchmarks:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/core-i7-4770k-haswell-performance,review-32651.html

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Read this earlier and was pretty disappointed.

Its not exactly the most informative article is it, just reaffirms what common sense dictated anyway, Haswell beats IB clock for clock which also beats SB clock for clock, and if the app can use >4 cores then SB-E beats them all

OFC they also have some GPU results for the mid range iGPU and a little bit to say they didn't bother attempting an overclock.
 
ubersonic said:
Read this earlier and was pretty disappointed.

Its not exactly the most informative article is it, just reaffirms what common sense dictated anyway, Haswell beats IB clock for clock which also beats SB clock for clock, and if the app can use >4 cores then SB-E beats them all

OFC they also have some GPU results for the mid range iGPU and a little bit to say they didn't bother attempting an overclock.
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It's a shame intel aren't releasing haswell-e or a six core version of haswell along with these CPUs. I also want to know how well these chips will overclock as that's were the value lies. I guess we will find out more about the overclocking nearer release.
 
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