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I have just changed from a Asus P7P55D-E Pro and i5 760 @4Ghz to a Asus Z87-A and 4670k. I was not really looking to change as the 760 @4Ghz was more than enough for my needs. However, a really good deal came up and i got the Z87-A and 4670k for £242 delivered. Both were brand new and still sealed!!
Finished building it up yesterday morning and got started on benching and overclocking. I am currently at 4.5Ghz with 1.280v vcore, 4200mhz uncore with 1.200v cache voltage. I am still finding my way around this new bios so there is more to come yet. Temps are silly on Haswell compared to my old 760. The 760 at 4ghz would not hit more than 55 degrees when running Linx. This 4670k hit's 70 degrees which for my cooling setup is high. Before you say 70 degrees is nothing, i have a pair of 120.3 rads mounted in a box on a windowsill sucking in air from outside that is only 12.4 degrees at the moment. So for my setup, 70 degrees is a lot.
First thing i noticed on the first boot was the speed of the bootup now that my sata3 SSD can stretch it's legs. It was limited to sata2 in my old board. Steam starts much fatser too and games load almost instantly. Unfortunately i only have one game with a built in benchmark, Just Cause 2, and that only showed a 3 fps gain no matter how fast the 4670k is running so that can't be a cpu limited game. No doubt MMO's like WoW would benefit more. Anyway, onto the benchies.
Hand brake was a 270mb trailer encoded to MP4. Single threaded performance in Super Pi shows a big gain with Haswell although the 760 holds it's own in the multi-threaded WPrime. Haswell is going to be a beauty for image editing.
One thing that stands out here is the memory latency is higher on Haswell than Lynnfield. This may be due to the 760 running a 200mhz bclk compared to the 4670k's 100mhz. I have yet to play with the memory with Haswell so there is a lot more bandwidth to be unlocked yet.
Not sure what to make of this lot. A 760 @4Ghz beats a 4670k at stock and does'nt get left too far behind. I guess it's a graphics benchmark more than anything though.
Basically if you do lots of image editing, multi threading etc, Haswell will be a big upgrade. Gaming i am not so sure due to not being able to bench any cpu limited games. The i5 760 once overclocked is still a very good cpu which just goes to show that it was such a value bang for buck cpu when launched. I only paid £124 for mine and that was the fastest i5 cpu at the time. Now the i5 4670k is £190+ at most retailers although there are deals to be had if you are patient and look around enough.
Anyway i hope this will help some of you in making your minds up about what to do.
Finished building it up yesterday morning and got started on benching and overclocking. I am currently at 4.5Ghz with 1.280v vcore, 4200mhz uncore with 1.200v cache voltage. I am still finding my way around this new bios so there is more to come yet. Temps are silly on Haswell compared to my old 760. The 760 at 4ghz would not hit more than 55 degrees when running Linx. This 4670k hit's 70 degrees which for my cooling setup is high. Before you say 70 degrees is nothing, i have a pair of 120.3 rads mounted in a box on a windowsill sucking in air from outside that is only 12.4 degrees at the moment. So for my setup, 70 degrees is a lot.
First thing i noticed on the first boot was the speed of the bootup now that my sata3 SSD can stretch it's legs. It was limited to sata2 in my old board. Steam starts much fatser too and games load almost instantly. Unfortunately i only have one game with a built in benchmark, Just Cause 2, and that only showed a 3 fps gain no matter how fast the 4670k is running so that can't be a cpu limited game. No doubt MMO's like WoW would benefit more. Anyway, onto the benchies.
Hand brake was a 270mb trailer encoded to MP4. Single threaded performance in Super Pi shows a big gain with Haswell although the 760 holds it's own in the multi-threaded WPrime. Haswell is going to be a beauty for image editing.
One thing that stands out here is the memory latency is higher on Haswell than Lynnfield. This may be due to the 760 running a 200mhz bclk compared to the 4670k's 100mhz. I have yet to play with the memory with Haswell so there is a lot more bandwidth to be unlocked yet.
Not sure what to make of this lot. A 760 @4Ghz beats a 4670k at stock and does'nt get left too far behind. I guess it's a graphics benchmark more than anything though.
Basically if you do lots of image editing, multi threading etc, Haswell will be a big upgrade. Gaming i am not so sure due to not being able to bench any cpu limited games. The i5 760 once overclocked is still a very good cpu which just goes to show that it was such a value bang for buck cpu when launched. I only paid £124 for mine and that was the fastest i5 cpu at the time. Now the i5 4670k is £190+ at most retailers although there are deals to be had if you are patient and look around enough.
Anyway i hope this will help some of you in making your minds up about what to do.
