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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

StonedPenguin said:
Hoping 2500k>4770k will be a decent upgrade, Maybe 25% clock for clock? HT will be nice too.
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You're looking at about ~15% clock for clock.
I'm tempted by the 4770K, hopefully they'll bring new 24/7 clocks with them, upping the percentage gain, and then the HT, could be a cool 30% gain when going 100%.
 
Shush with the haswell speak!!!!!! :mad:its making me want to upgrade!!!!!:(:eek::p

ddr4 wont be here for a good while yet from what ive read
 
Wucked said:
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? :)
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For sure man!!! I know two of the Manufacturers boards fairly well already so will be able to support.
 
The Voltage control is on the chips not the VRM's. The board will still need strong power provision for stock clocks with high phase count as the CPU will only be able to regulate what power is supplied to it!! Bad power provision, bad clocking!!!
 
DDR4 does seem a little pointless for the extra cash anytime soon. I don't see what problem there is with DDR3 @ 2133 upwards. Hell, even at 1600, it's pretty good.
 
Razyre said:
DDR4 does seem a little pointless for the extra cash anytime soon. I don't see what problem there is with DDR3 @ 2133 upwards. Hell, even at 1600, it's pretty good.
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Using that logic, we could all still be using DDR1 @200Mhz.

As technology moves on, individual components get faster, and the cpu/motherboard are updated to take advantage of the extra memory bandwidth etc.
 
Dave2150 said:
Using that logic, we could all still be using DDR1 @200Mhz.

As technology moves on, individual components get faster, and the cpu/motherboard are updated to take advantage of the extra memory bandwidth etc.
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Notice where I said "anytime soon" upgrading to Haswell-E for a negligible performance increase is a foolish idea IMO.

If the chip itself were 20-30% more powerful and you wanted both, I could understand.
 
Razyre said:
Notice where I said "anytime soon" upgrading to Haswell-E for a negligible performance increase is a foolish idea IMO.

If the chip itself were 20-30% more powerful and you wanted both, I could understand.
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We don't know anything about Haswell performance, let alone Haswell-E, only info we've had is from leaked Engineering samples, which can't be relied upon etc.

For all we know, Haswell-E with ddr4 could have major performance improvements, or it could be slower than what we have today!
 
Dave2150 said:
We don't know anything about Haswell performance, let alone Haswell-E, only info we've had is from leaked Engineering samples, which can't be relied upon etc.

For all we know, Haswell-E with ddr4 could have major performance improvements, or it could be slower than what we have today!
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Well that's why I'm shunning those saying "I'll definitely upgrade for DDR4".
 
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