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Worth Waiting?

Sandmod

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I am almost ready to purchase the components for my new build, but I'm torn between waiting for haswell and going with ivybridge.

My build is to be able to run OS X, so I'm thinking ivybridge is tried and tested (much less of a headache), and that haswell is going to be a graphics boost rather than cpu boost.

Should i go with the ivy or wait for the has?
 
With Haswell just around the corner you may as well wait and see how it performs. You're probably looking at a similar jump in performance that we saw IB make over SB. So not a lot but still an improvement. More importantly is how well Haswell might overclock.
 
i read that article yesterday, and thought about it as like you say its not far round the corner.

but as you say haswell wont be officially supported by OS X for at least another half a year after release. Do you think there will be a noticeable jump?

Im currently on a i7 27" iMac (2009), great computer for almost everything but as the GPU is ageing... its starting not as great as it once was. So I'm heading for the unlocked 3570K or the haswell version of it.

The worrying thing with haswell is the very little coverage. ivybridge was hyped up but nothing much about haswell
 
alex_123_fra said:
Or go X79. That is what I did and couldn't be happier. Went from 2500k system to 3930k. Also a clear upgrade path with Ivy-E.
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Unless the evil corporation decide on the golf course that Ivy-E will require an alternative chipset (X99).

This is what is stopping me buy the exact same rig that you have now!
 
lnoton said:
Unless the evil corporation decide on the golf course that Ivy-E will require an alternative chipset (X99).

This is what is stopping me buy the exact same rig that you have now!
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Haha, we have almost identical laptops too. Mine is an R1 with a 2860QM. Thinking of upgrading the 6990s to 680Ms in SLI.

In terms of X79, I had exactly the same dilemma but a very reliable birdie told me that Ivy-E is definitely on the same chipset so you are safe with X79 ;).
 
alex_123_fra said:
Haha, we have almost identical laptops too. Mine is an R1 with a 2860QM. Thinking of upgrading the 6990s to 680Ms in SLI.

In terms of X79, I had exactly the same dilemma but a very reliable birdie told me that Ivy-E is definitely on the same chipset so you are safe with X79 ;).
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Impeccable taste sir!

I don't really use my laptop for gaming, just work. Pretty pleased with the 6990s though. Best option at the time, there were lots of problems with the 580s. Cost a pretty penny to upgrade the gpus, no?

I've all week off and am so tempted to upgrade my desktop as a project. But held off!
 
lnoton said:
Impeccable taste sir!

I don't really use my laptop for gaming, just work. Pretty pleased with the 6990s though. Best option at the time, there were lots of problems with the 580s. Cost a pretty penny to upgrade the gpus, no?

I've all week off and am so tempted to upgrade my desktop as a project. But held off!
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Thanks, you too! Wow, some work laptop. I use if for some work but nothing intensive. Mainly gaming when travelling and it is fantastic. 680m upgrade would be around £1k+ depending on whether you sell the 6990s but the performance benefits are huge. Essentially double the GPU power. If you throw a 2920xm in there too, there really is no need to upgrade the laptop for another 5+ years (3DMark11 scores of around 13-15k with that sort of system).

You know you want to re: desktop upgrade. You will not regret it. X79 has been a joy to work with for me so far. So powerful too. My i5 2500k system was great but things are just so much smoother now. Particularly you notice the minimum frame rates in say wow when raiding or BF3 big maps are much higher.
 
interesting ^.^

think ive set my heart on the following though;

KFA2 GeForce GTX 660TI EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (VTX4-25SAT3-256G) Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)
Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

think the graphics card will be significant alone lol, here is a comparison with my current hardware... my GPU is the Mobile version of the HD4850

http://www.hwcompare.com/13233/geforce-gtx-660-ti-vs-radeon-hd-4850-512mb/
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-860-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3570K#performance
 
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