Official Intel Haswell Thread

subbytna · 16 Oct 2012 at 09:18

Reverts back to the "My q9550 isstill doing all it needs to do" line

Honestly can't believe how good this chip is. Being 36 years old I have the patience to wait an extra 2 seconds for my cpu to do something.

eddyr · 16 Oct 2012 at 11:25

subbytna said:
Reverts back to the "My q9550 isstill doing all it needs to do" line

Honestly can't believe how good this chip is. Being 36 years old I have the patience to wait an extra 2 seconds for my cpu to do something.

Ah, yes well, youv'e had practice, as you get older everything takes a bit longer doesn't it.

tbh · 12 Nov 2012 at 15:33

Really looking forward to the 10 watt mobile chip, should bring decent performance along with good battery life and low temps to the ultra portable market.

Not sure that the desktop chip will make a compelling argument for upgrading from a 2500K, seems that Haswell is aimed firmly at the mobile market. Here's hoping I'm wrong though.

Vertigo · 12 Nov 2012 at 20:29

tbh said:
Really looking forward to the 10 watt mobile chip, should bring decent performance along with good battery life and low temps to the ultra portable market.

Not sure that the desktop chip will make a compelling argument for upgrading from a 2500K, seems that Haswell is aimed firmly at the mobile market. Here's hoping I'm wrong though.

Makes sense though. Intel have the desktop market sewn up right now, with AMD over a generation behind, whereas they're facing far more competition in the mobile market and want to get in on the action there and take some market share back from the ARM derivatives.

andy_mk3 · 13 Nov 2012 at 00:36

If haswell can produce better than SB/IB performance with lower temps and lower power usage, that's fine by me. Still on a Q6600 so a few generations behind now

wazza300 · 13 Nov 2012 at 00:40

ooo im all for less power consumption,with that comes less heat/lower temps

smilertoo · 13 Nov 2012 at 04:35

No-one even semi serious about games would dream of using an IGP.

Yaayuh! · 13 Nov 2012 at 08:12

smilertoo said:
No-one even semi serious about games would dream of using an IGP.

It depends on what games.
There are a few older games that i still like to play which the HD4000 IGP is more than capable of handling.

tbh · 13 Nov 2012 at 14:09

smilertoo said:
No-one even semi serious about games would dream of using an IGP.

Funny thing to say considering that all the next gen consoles look like they're going to end up using AMD APUs

Martini1991 · 13 Nov 2012 at 14:10

I'll be depressed if Haswell doesn't offer a mainstream hexcore.

opethdisciple · 14 Nov 2012 at 12:27

Intel Haswell - 5 - 15% over IB.

According to this article, "You can expect CPU performance to increase by around 5 - 15% at the same clock speed as Ivy Bridge."

~>Dg<~ · 14 Nov 2012 at 12:47

shock and horror always same lol

it will probably be ten percent quicker

ahenners · 14 Nov 2012 at 13:13

It will probably be a similar margin to the jump from SB to IB. Went for IB so will sit Haswell and probably the gen after out.

ants83 · 16 Nov 2012 at 17:04

Thinking of upgrading my i7 920 for this

Kaapstad · 16 Nov 2012 at 17:23

ants83 said:
Thinking of upgrading my i7 920 for this

You may find its a bit of a downgrade

Your i7 920 may be a few generations old but it does have hyperthreading. I can see more games like BF3 coming out that use those extra cores/threads. For a bit of fun I put a GTX 690 in one of my i7 9xx rigs and it ran better than in my 3960x rig.

I think my i7 9xx rigs will see off Haswell.

ants83 · 16 Nov 2012 at 17:33

Yeah I know what your saying. My gfx is a 2gb 560ti so mabye that alone would be a more worthwhile upgrade.

Yaayuh! · 16 Nov 2012 at 17:46

As this is still going nicely and has a load of news in it, can mod/admin please change the title of the thread (i'm the OP) to ***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

Thanks

alexakasloth · 19 Nov 2012 at 22:17

Looks like a good HTPC solution, will be interested to see how it does for a light bit of gaming and compared to a similar priced AMD. Haven't upgraded since I purchased my C2D laptop 4 years ago

and this sounds like it's coming along at the right time.

BigBANGtheory · 20 Nov 2012 at 09:10

lower power draw, IPC +10% over IvyB, faster IGP = not all that inspiring.

Will the transistor and thermal designs allow it to clock faster than IvyB for me is the killer question.

Pabl0 · 20 Nov 2012 at 10:54

I'll stick with my 3750k @4.5 and skip Haswell as important sure it would be a waste of money considering I'd need a new board aswell, although a performance increase is welcomed 20/30% over the i5 would be nice.