Sandybridge-E or Haswell

Hakanese · 6 Jul 2013 at 20:44

Hi guys, I've been out of touch with pc tech for a while. After a lot of moving around and a change of circumstances I find myself back in the UK in Hull of all places
And my faithfull old i5 760 after years of abuse is finally giving up the ghost. I picked up a Gtx 770 and a stonking 1050w psu.
The problem is I find myself stuck between going for the 1150 socket and the older 2011.
Ideally I'd like to oc the danglies off the cpu and not worry about upgrading for a while.
Cheers for any advice, suggestions and reasons

mickyflinn · 6 Jul 2013 at 20:58

Sandybridge-E meaning Enthusiast will give you more pci lanes for multiple gpu setup and quad channel memory but comes at a cost.

While haswell the latest Intel cpu has a total of 16 lanes that will run 2 gpus at x8 x8 dual channel memory native sata 6gb.

Hakanese · 6 Jul 2013 at 21:01

Tbh I've a budget of around £1200 for the cpu, mobo and ram.

mickyflinn · 6 Jul 2013 at 21:03

Are you planing to go xfire or sli ?

Hakanese · 6 Jul 2013 at 21:10

Sli eventually. Atm the evga 770 is sufficient.
Sorry about the short replies I'm on the phone at work

mickyflinn · 6 Jul 2013 at 21:17

You have a few options The first has 6 cores 12 threads , the other 2 are quad core.

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james_2k · 6 Jul 2013 at 21:19

haswell can do 4 way sli, in native pcie 3. unlike sb-e which is kinda iffy by all reports. so thats not an issue.

unless you really want the top end multithreading rendering etc. then get haswell.

Hakanese · 6 Jul 2013 at 23:27

I'll probably go for a Sandybridge-E, thanks for the info, now to figure out a decent mobo.
I know the flagship for Asus atm is the Rive, but anyone have any suggestions experiences with other boards