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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

heighnub said:
There is no bug in Haswell, it is a CPU and does not have any USB logic in it.
There is, however, a bug in the accompanying Z87 chipset that has been fixed although the fix will not appear in motherboards sold initially.
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So i take it this can be fixed on the first batch of mobos via BIOS update??
 
I guess its an issue to consider for future resell value though ?
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This is the thing, when revision C2 comes out who will want to buy a launch board with the C1 revision? it will hurt the resale value for sure, but one thing is the boards at launch will still be top dollar! despite the known bug.


maybe avoid launch boards and wait for C2 revision with the USB bug gone. maybe looking at September before boards appear with C2 retail as distributors will want to clear the early revision boards first!
 
arknor is right prices wont drop. When ivy came out week later sandy wen up in price due to OV lottery with ivy....
 
Going from an i7 860 to Haswell. It's a pain but I think well worth the reinstall of 8. As much as I love Windows 8 :(
 
I'm looking to go from i7 940 to Haswell 4770 or 4770k. Timing was nearly perfect, I was considering a new system and then this weekend my i7 940 system finally decided to give up on me (mobo or cpu died - tried everything I could to isolate the fault and recover, but when I came down to only those two parts and no way to isolate it further I gave up), maybe it read my thoughts. I personally don't like Windows 8, so I have to decide whether MS is going to fix all its bad points in 8.1, or just go with my good old trusted Win 7 config.
 
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ants83 said:
is anybody going from the i7 920 to haswell? im very tempmted, although cant be bothered to reinstall windows 8 all over again!
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You shouldn't need to reinstall, I've taken the same W8 install across two Z68 boards and three X79 boards without any negative impact on performance (apart form it asking to reactivate ofc).
 
It really does depend on the uses of the rig as to whether Haswell will be great upgrade to X58.

If you dont need twelve threads or multi card above 2 GPU then your fine with Haswell.
 
In my case I logged the CPU and GPU utilisation on my Core i7 940 and HD6950. Neither was maxed out but were at 80-90% a fair amount and the processor was only using the hyperthreads relatively lightly. But in some games my FPS was dropping rather more than I would like on heavy 3D game scenarios. I run at 2560x1440. I also do some photo work with Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom, plus a small amount of video editing. Thus my thinking was that the major benefit I would get would be a graphics upgrade to a 7950 with a PCI-e 3.0 x16. I could have gone with that on a z77 board (and still might if the Haswell pricing is much higher), but wanted something to last me 5 years, with upgrades over time. Ivy-e is just too pricey for my use of the system and I don't think I would see any benefit.
 
ants83 said:
is anybody going from the i7 920 to haswell? im very tempmted, although cant be bothered to reinstall windows 8 all over again!
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I will be, as I stated in my earlier thread. I kept my i7 920 at stock and I need proper USB 3.0 support and SATA III for my new SSD. Should see a nice improvement.
 
Yeah ill be upgrading from my Bloomfield i7 920 to Haswell, hopefully i can get at least 4.5GHz from haswell was never able to get over 4GHz on the Bloomfield :(
 
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