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Really Really Considering Moving To Haswell From Sandy

almighty15

almighty15

almighty15

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I could make the jump for £100-150 from my 4.7Ghz 2600k....

I still play a lot of single threaded games and even a 4.6Ghz Haswell 4770k would beat out a 5Ghz+ Sandy in single threaded loads.

Sandy isn't worth as much now either so also thinking to shift it now before it's value plummets.

What you reckon? Am I mad? It'll be pushing a couple of 7950's too.
 
FPS being a combination of gpu+cpu, the 20% (best case) increase of a 4770k will translate to no more than 10% extra fps. If you game at max detail and ~60fps this will drop below 5% improvement. If you game at 200fps + you might see that 10-20% improvement tho :)
 
Pretty pointless, a large cost, and you've no guarantee at all of getting a decent overclock on 4770K, it could be as low as 4.2GHz.
 
£100-£150 for a new board, £250 for a new CPU. An average clocking 4770K will reach about 4.4GHz with higher end cooling, which may not be any faster than the 2600K at 4.7GHz. The first one I had maxed out at 4.1GHz at 1.35v.
 
I think it cost me about 70 quid to go from a Maximus IV Extreme P67 with a 4.8GHZ 2500K to an Asus Maximus VI Hero with 4.75GHZ 4670K.

I'm so-so about the whole ordeal really.
 
2500K to 4670K is a bit pointless too, but at least the CPU is a lot cheaper and the 2500K still gets a reasonable amount. I had a 2500K that easily clocked at 5GHz, I wish I'd kept that rather than get a 4670K (which can't get above 4.6GHz).
 
I sold my Z68 board and 2500K for £160 and got a 4770K, but in my second system in retrospect I'd have kept the 2500K for that instead of buying a 4670K. The best thing about Haswell is the motherboard improvements, not the CPU. I'm fairly sure that Intel has binned chips as K models that previously would have been rejected, since some barely overclock above stock and the very best can reach 5GHz.
 
Could just be immature silicon.

I got 150 for my 2500K as new 2500K's were like 180 and weren't apparently overclocking too well, mine did 4.8GHZ perfect (Although not as well as my first 2500K which did 4.8GHZ at 1.35v)
 
In this instance if it were an i5 to 4770K I'd say yes, but since it's already a decent clocking i7 it'd be a big expense for potentially next to no improvements (and may need better cooling too).

I'd sell the 7950s and get a custom cooled 290x (or two 290s) instead.
 
with ddr4 and 20nm gpu's coming next year, i would keep the 2600k. we might see better performance and with haswell cpu's being unpredictable with what they overclock to, you could end up spending 100-150 on a side grade.
 
Gah... Got my i7 up to 4.8Ghz Intel Burn Test stable now at 1.416v

Max temp was 78c on a H100

Looking at the various reviews of Haswell it's anywhere from 5-15% faster in games compared to my 2600k so anything over 4.6Ghz on Haswell would be quite an improvement in single threaded loads.
 
Well I just bought a 4770k from overclockers and it's a peach-retail CPU in a box and its rocking along at 4.8Ghz! Going to try for 5Ghz omorrow.
 
Martini1991 said:
Oh yeah, I agree, the upgrade was pointless.
But I wanted PCI-E 3.0 :p

I should have got the 3770K tbh.
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I moved from an ib setup, 3770k to the spec in sig. Bit mad tbh though my 3770k was a woeful clocking chip. 1.3400 vcore for 4.5ghz but still not fully stable. The 4770k uses a lot less vcore for the same speed, (1.2625) but runs an awful lot hotter if stress tested.
 
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