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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

my 920 was at 4.6 the other day, no worries. but cranked it back to 4.4 so that the power bills werent through the roof :O

hoping haswell is a good upgrade for me. 10% (haswell - ivy) + 10% (ivy sandy) + ~10% (sandy-bloomfield (roughly) = a decent improvement hopefully
 
I think 5% is more realistic for sandy-ivy, so with the following avg differences bloomfield-sandy-ivy-haswell
10%
5%
10%
would then estimate about ~27% avg performance increase not including igpu boosting currently typical cpu processing tasks.
 
Redmint said:
Looking forward to hearing some more about these, as long as it's some kind of performance step from the Bridges I'll be happy enough. I can't believe first gen i7 is almost 4 years old now. Not that long ago a 4 year old PC would normally be considered slow but the old i7 920s are still more than enough performance for most people.
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Totally agree. The original i7's are still very capable and still more than enough for the vast majority of users. I'm hoping there will be a mainstream hex core which is affordable and a good clocker purely for flight simulator x. Maybe i'm hoping for too much but quad cores have been around for quite a while now and hopefully the next generation changes this.
 
Im on a 4ghz 920 going strong on an R2E. Feeling the itch to upgrade SO BAD as my SSDs are saturated by sata2 and not buying computer parts regularly is like not eating meals.

Still its better than almost every friends PC I have. And the ones with better kit are not overclocked so... yay :D (OCuK forum members not included ofc :P )
 
jakspyder said:
Im on a 4ghz 920 going strong on an R2E. Feeling the itch to upgrade SO BAD as my SSDs are saturated by sata2 and not buying computer parts regularly is like not eating meals.

Still its better than almost every friends PC I have. And the ones with better kit are not overclocked so... yay :D (OCuK forum members not included ofc :P )
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If it makes you feel any better the IOPS aren't hit at all by the SATA2 interface, just the sequential transfer. Also if you fill the drives up the performance drops significantly anyway. SATA3 is only really an improvement for multi-raid setups.
 
jakspyder said:
Im on a 4ghz 920 going strong on an R2E. Feeling the itch to upgrade SO BAD as my SSDs are saturated by sata2 and not buying computer parts regularly is like not eating meals.

Still its better than almost every friends PC I have. And the ones with better kit are not overclocked so... yay :D (OCuK forum members not included ofc :P )
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I use a i7 9xx with a R3E I have 2 C300s in raid0 on sata2 ports and it really shifts.

Have you thought about adding another SSD in raid0. With low price of SSDs these days you could even raid0 up 3 of them.
 
Was going to build a new PC from scratch based on Ivy, but now I don't think I'll bother since we'll have Haswell in March at the earliest. Or so I've read, but I'm thinking more around June/July.

I'll make do until then, and upgrade when I can actually afford to, ha!
 
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The smart phones took over, 2 years ago. Its really not worth upgrading from a core duo or quad, or AMD 6 core chips until the fashion of phones dies down. I have always said, we like to sit down, and relax, and join another world. Can't do that on a smart phone. But hopefully wont be too long before desktops get popular again, virtual googles sound exciting.

I intend on upgrading next year to Haswell.
 
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shuffle said:
The smart phones took over, 2 years ago. Its really not worth upgrading from a core duo or quad, or AMD 6 core chips until the fashion of phones dies down. I have always said, we like to sit down, and relax, and join another world. Can't do that on a smart phone. But hopefully wont be too long before desktops get popular again, virtual googles sound exciting.

I intend on upgrading next year to Haswell.
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?? it depends what your doing. for pc gaming it's deffinitly worth upgrading from a core 2 duo - not so much a quad. its worth going from a amd hex core to a decent i5 since amd hex cores arent great for gaming. if all you do is surf the internet/play angry birds/retro games however then sure not much point upgrading from a duo!
 
Kaapstad said:
I use a i7 9xx with a R3E I have 2 C300s in raid0 on sata2 ports and it really shifts.

Have you thought about adding another SSD in raid0. With low price of SSDs these days you could even raid0 up 3 of them.
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JonSmith said:
If it makes you feel any better the IOPS aren't hit at all by the SATA2 interface, just the sequential transfer. Also if you fill the drives up the performance drops significantly anyway. SATA3 is only really an improvement for multi-raid setups.
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Im using 2 128GB M4s in RAID0 and the speeds are fine and like you say, IOPS and such are not effected. I doubt Id even notice the difference getting sata3 capable motherboards. But still, I'm just looking for any excuse to upgrade :P
 
jamiehavok said:
?? it depends what your doing. for pc gaming it's deffinitly worth upgrading from a core 2 duo - not so much a quad. its worth going from a amd hex core to a decent i5 since amd hex cores arent great for gaming. if all you do is surf the internet/play angry birds/retro games however then sure not much point upgrading from a duo!
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hi thats my point, not much point upgrading from a 2006 quad. Ok core 2 duo maybe I'll give you that.
Hey! Haswell soon, so look forward to that. I did look forward to gettting the Ivy Bridge, but overheating issues, no way.
 
I tend to do a complete upgrade every two CPU generations, normally because I don't consider the gains to be enough to warrant changing every time.

The same will most likely apply to Haswell unless it's an absolute barnstormer of an architecture.
 
andy_mk3 said:
I think I'll hold out for haswell, Ivy Bridge is nothing to rave about really, SB was good enough as it is!
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It depends what you're buying for.
Ivybridge has a much better IMC and IGP and is slightly faster clock for clock.

Memory overclocking is damn good and for mobile usage (e.g. ITX/laptops) it is awesome.

But yes, most on SB will be holding out for Haswell. Unless you have a lot of money it's almost always best to skip a chip.
 
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