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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

single core performance based on cinebench 11.5 and recommended memory

stock haswell 3.9ghz = ivybridge 4.15ghz = sandybridge 4.28ghz = bloomfield 5.1ghz

Well just tested my i7 920 (Bloomfield) @ 4Ghz on CineBench and score 6.86, so Haswell should be a nice boost for me
And OpenGL test 76.29fps on a HD6970
 
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If you are just Gaming a better GPU would be a better upgrade. I have a 4770k system I have just built running 4.6Ghz and it is no quicker than my 2500k system at 4.6Ghz both using a 780 GTX at 2560x1440. In gaming I cannot tell the difference.
 
Well just tested my i7 920 (Bloomfield) @ 4Ghz on CineBench and score 6.86, so Haswell should be a nice boost for me
And OpenGL test 76.29fps on a HD6970

I get 6.73 with a 4670k @ 4ghz (4 real cores 0 hyper threads)
5 on my old x6 1055t @ stock ( 6 real cores 0 hyper threads)

If you are upgrading you will want to skip the 4670k and go for the 4770k with hyper threading
Guess your hyper-threading makes a decent difference in programs that max all cores.
I'd imagine if you used a single thread I'd be faster

I have a 4770k system I have just built running 4.6Ghz and it is no quicker than my 2500k system at 4.6Ghz both using a 780 GTX at 2560x1440. In gaming I cannot tell the difference.
Same for me coming from a x6 1055t @ stock the only games that show any real difference are ones that only use 1-2 threads which is mostly old and f2p games, I get a massive boost in WOT which only uses 1 thread my fps jumped from around 40 to 70 in that game

For gaming I think a 4670k is enough as games don't really need hyper threading.
for rendering/transcoding/video editing then 4770k is a must really.

Heres 2 cpu usage shots I took and posted in another thread I might as well post there here to
skyrim @ max settings , no enb/fxaa/sweetfx but high res textures and a bunch of normal mods
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so low cpu usage across the cores

Project cars on ultra with down sampling 4x AA method , 63 AI cars , wet weather ( game has a cpu demanding physics engine with ambient temperatures, altitude etc effecting the power of the cars and even their idle RPM! , real drive train simulation , real gearbox simulation etc all tied in to the physics and audio engines )
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This can be considered a next gen game (releases in 2014) and the cpu usage is pretty high with so many AI cars but theres still a lot of headroom

Bioshock infinite @ ultra
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Btw my cpu goes all the way upto around 60-64c in stress tests check how much lower is is during gaming lol
idling at 31-34c right now (hot day hot room)
 
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cool thing, i had upto 9c difference between cores on AIDA64 test, redid tests with my pc tower lying flat on its side and there's a 2c difference between cores. I thought i had the cooler on tight as it would go but apparently mavity still makes slight difference. Also 3c cooler.
 
Well just tested my i7 920 (Bloomfield) @ 4Ghz on CineBench and score 6.86, so Haswell should be a nice boost for me
And OpenGL test 76.29fps on a HD6970

Just got my Haswell system up and running and at default clock it score 8.01 in CineBench!!!, so faster than my i7 920 Bloomfield already!!! :D
 
give us some single thread results :)

4670k @ 3990mhz stupid blk is set to 100 but actually is 99.7 or something stupid :mad:

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BTW MP ratio is how efficient your cpu is at multi coring so running 4 cores I lose 0.09 efficiency
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the cpu usage graph is from the single core test, intel seems to round robbin between cores to keep even temps or something weird is happened like intel taking a single threaded program and splitting it 50% over to cores as best it can? in task manager cinebench was never ever over 25% cpu usage though which is correct for 1 of 4 cores

also the single core score *4 is slightly higher than my 4 core result hmm

No hyper-threading sucks :D, not like you notice it in gaming though :)

coming from a 6 core cpu I wouldn't say I regret not getting a 4770k but considering I could have afforded to maybe I should.

I don't do any video transcoding like I used to though so meh
 
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How are people finding the temperatures as STOCK for Haswell over Ivy Bridge. I do not own a desktop so putting a new build together in a mini itx set up. Just worried about the heat issues I have been reading about with Haswell - do the heat issues only apply for overclocked CPUs? I do not intend to overclock....
 
So far I can get my 4670K stable at 4.4GHz on 1.2v .... this is with an Akasa Nero cooler, temps using Orthos Prime CPU stress tests are about 65 degrees max on RealTemp. That seem ok?
 
So far I can get my 4670K stable at 4.4GHz on 1.2v .... this is with an Akasa Nero cooler, temps using Orthos Prime CPU stress tests are about 65 degrees max on RealTemp. That seem ok?

that's a pretty damn good overclock at those volts the test to see if you have a good ocing cpu according to asus is 46x @ 1.25v I bet yours would do that without breaking a sweat
65c is well within safe temperatures the cpu doesn't start throttling until something stupid like 100c
some people are happily running 4.8ghz @ 80c + lol anything over 65 scares me :D I just don't want that extra heat in my case

Btw your temps will be much less gaming, im 60-64C max load across the cores on mine but im gaming it's typically around the mid 40's :D
 
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that's a pretty damn good overclock at those volts the test to see if you have a good ocing cpu according to asus is 46x @ 1.25v I bet yours would do that without breaking a sweat



65c is well within safe temperatures the cpu doesn't start throttling until something stupid like 100c
some people are happily running 4.8ghz @ 80c + lol anything over 65 scares me :D I just don't want that extra heat in my case

I'm just happy I've got at least 1GHz over stock right now, will probably do more tweaking later in the year or so. I forsee I'll probably be replacing hardware in a few years anyways so that overclock should be plenty till then :)

My case is quite cool inside with airflow, using 2 Akasa black Apaches as intakes on full at the front, a black Apache as a out take at the back, the Enermax PSU drawing heat from the top out and I replaced the standard Akasa Nero heatsink fan with a Noctua NF-F12 PWM focused flow fan.

Case is pretty quiet now but that might be because I replaced my Radeon HD 6950 with a GTX 660 Ti :D
 
well personally I consider 3.8ghz to be stock as my cpu did that on stock volts and it's what the cpu gets boosted to if the cpus under 50% load so it's not a huge stretch to expect the other 2 cores to hit 3.8ghz..

I think my bios was set so when 4 cores are in use it only boosted to 3.6ghz but its still not a huge ask for 200mhz more on stock volts really.

BTW anything under 1.25v should be fine as long as you have a good heatsink , over 1.25v you need a massive heatsink or watercooling
 
Well just tested my i7 920 (Bloomfield) @ 4Ghz on CineBench and score 6.86, so Haswell should be a nice boost for me
And OpenGL test 76.29fps on a HD6970
Just got my Haswell system up and running and at default clock it score 8.01 in CineBench!!!, so faster than my i7 920 Bloomfield already!!! :D

With my Stable OC of 4.6Ghz, just scored 10.10 on CineBench!! :eek:
 
Hi, did another run of CineBench at with the old girl > 920:4.4ghz -

CineBench 11.5 -
OpenGL: 85.53FPS Ref. Match 99.3% / CPU: 7.61 / CPU[SINGLE CORE] 1.53 MPRatio: 4.96x


WoW, she showed a 4670K a clean pair of heel,s,
Oldphart.:D
 
his hyper threading is giving him just over a whole cores worth of extra performance thats why.

look at the difference between 4670k and 4770k and the only difference at the same clock rate is 2mb cache and hyper threading.

single thread 4670k @ 4ghz = 1.72
single thread i7 920 @ 4.2ghz =1.52

hyperthreading doesn't scale in games like it does in synthetic benchmarks/rendering/video transcoding though AFAIK., still no point to go haswell from an 4.3ghz i7 920 though ^_^ was barely any point for me I only did it because core for core haswell it about twice as fast as my old 1055t was even with both cpus @ stock

anyway I came from a 1055t which gets 4.9 even at stock 3.2ghz in cinebench , I bet if I whacked it up to 4ghz it wouldn't be to far from my 4670k@4ghz cinebench score ;)

Btw if he turned of hyper threading I bet his mp ratio would drop to around 3.91 efficiency our of a possible 4 thats just how much of a difference hyperthread is making :(
 
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his hyper threading is giving him just over a whole cores worth of extra performance thats why.

look at the difference between 4670k and 4770k and the only difference at the same clock rate is 2mb cache and hyper threading.

single thread 4670k @ 4ghz = 1.72
single thread i7 920 @ 4.2ghz =1.52

hyperthreading doesn't scale in games like it does in synthetic benchmarks/rendering/video transcoding though AFAIK., still no point to go haswell from an 4.3ghz i7 920 though ^_^ was barely any point for me I only did it because core for core haswell it about twice as fast as my old 1055t was even with both cpus @ stock

anyway I came from a 1055t which gets 4.9 even at stock 3.2ghz in cinebench , I bet if I whacked it up to 4ghz it wouldn't be to far from my 4670k@4ghz cinebench score ;)

Hi arknor, lol just winding you up, watch them temp's if you go higher, enjoy. ;)
 
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