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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

fishingcat said:
I wouldn't hold out for an 8 core upgrade to the Q6600.

Regular Haswell will walk all over that chip anyway.
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60% cpu utilisation in starcraft II...

Just been watching 1080p film, whilst 8 discs synced and another client transocded a full bluray..not a single judder..
will try and hold out on the upgrade itch until the lie of the land is clearer.
 
If I'm reading it right, nothing specifically is said whether i3's and pentiums are unlockable/clockable, if anything they skirt arond it but do say that in the K versions that the base clock changes result in automatic max cpu ratio changes. I expect similar would occur with the non K too to give the same clocks.
 
eddyr said:
If I'm reading it right, nothing specifically is said whether i3's and pentiums are unlockable/clockable, if anything they skirt arond it but do say that in the K versions that the base clock changes result in automatic max cpu ratio changes. I expect similar would occur with the non K too to give the same clocks.
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Read it again ;)

But if you don't want too, the non-K CPU's are going to be multiplier locked again but Haswell will have BCLK straps as seen on X79.
 
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I have upgrade dilemma as well. I have been on 775 socket for the past 3 years now and currently running Q9650@4Ghz. Although I plan to stick with the current setup for at least one more year; may even stretch it for further few more months, I am not sure if should upgrade to Haswell or to the next architecture Skylake?

I do play demanding games such as BF3 and sometimes cpu/architecture does cause bottlenecks momentarily and equally my 5850 is showing it's sign of age in running gpu demanding games.

It would be nice to have 6 cores mainstream haswell as this is ideally what I would like but seems unlikely.
 
ubersonic said:
Read it again ;)

But if you don't want too, the non-K CPU's are going to be multiplier locked again but Haswell will have BCLK straps as seen on X79.
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But with the info that in the K editions that the maximum selectable multi will change with each baseclock modifier, it seems likely to me that a similar alteration to the highest multiplier could be implemented on non-K i3/pentium chips depending on the baseclock strap to limit them to their referernce speeds. (or maybe some where in between if they are feeling generous/want to stick one to AMD but not canablise K edition sales). So with nothing specifically mentioned either way and considering their last generations it's possible that they'll still be locked down.
 
WingZero30 said:
I have upgrade dilemma as well. I have been on 775 socket for the past 3 years now and currently running Q9650@4Ghz. Although I plan to stick with the current setup for at least one more year; may even stretch it for further few more months, I am not sure if should upgrade to Haswell or to the next architecture Skylake?

I do play demanding games such as BF3 and sometimes cpu/architecture does cause bottlenecks momentarily and equally my 5850 is showing it's sign of age in running gpu demanding games.

It would be nice to have 6 cores mainstream haswell as this is ideally what I would like but seems unlikely.
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Same boat here, I have two systems one Q9550 stock and one E-8500 with a slight overclock. I am hoping to learn a bit more about getting as much out of these chips, as they appear to be holding things back, and I am clueless about OC'ing these days.

I have been wanting to upgrade for some time, every time news came out about the next big thing, Sandybridge/Ivybridge/Piledriver/Haswell/ and now new 2011, so on and on I wait.

Can't even make my mind up on trying to stick with microATX or going back to full ATX and big roomy boxes.
 
I reckon the overclocking options for Haswell in the UEFI's could be a bit to complicated/confusing.
 
^^^^^ Its just a new platform to learn.

I dont think they will be too complicated to get up and running fairly quickly!!!;)
 
Perhaps not for you 8, but some of us mortals might struggle a bit. Maybe you'll be there to rescue us with a handy guide at some point though? :)
 
I'm rocking a Phenom II x4 940 with a horrible old M3N78 pro mobo and I'm itching to buy me a new system.

This processor gets maxed out by many, many tasks now and bottlenecks a lot of games, even with OC.

My main worry at the moment with Haswell is this chipset issue. I really, really need an upgrade (Gaming on Cry 3 and BF3 is becoming impossible) but I don't know if this will be a regrettable purchase if I order a CPU, Mobo and 16GB RAM the day I can.
 
I'm of the opinion (at this point) that Haswell @4.2GHz = IvyB @4.6GHz = SandyB @ 5GHz

So Haswell @4.5GHz is ok I guess but a bit dull.
Haswell @5GHz is an interesting prospect that would pretty much ensure an upgrade for me at least, but I'm sure many others too.
Beyond 5GHz its an exciting venture.

Anything else is just back ground noise, marketing and generally irrelevent for a gaming desktop it either hits those figures and performs or it doesn't simple as that. The chipset issue can be worked around and has a solution if you are prepared to wait a little longer...
 
If I could comfortably get 5GHz+ on air then the enthusiast in me would bitch-slap my mainstream-hexacore-desiring frugalist (don't know if that's a word!).

I'd then go for the Haswell K chip with HT, disabling it till the new octocore consoles start helping push things again.
 
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