cageymaru
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I saw a review over at anandtech and it looks like Haswell is somewhat of a disappointment more or less.
I'm holding out for Haswell, my QX6850 is starting to feel it. My 7870 is not hitting more than like 80% usage.
He's referring to the Chinese review linked in forums. Who knows if its accurate. If it is, not all bad, looks like they oc'ed it to 5ghz on less volts than stock 3770k. IPC looks like the typical 5-7%.
Not going to happen before 3rd juneYeah who knows how accurate indeed.
I am patiently waiting for reputable sites to release their reviews.
Maybe soon???
I'm seeing sub 50% at times in some games on my 7870, with an overclocked Q6600. It's been a good run but it's definitely time.
I have one of the older 120hz viewsonic monitors so 1680x1050 doesn't help either.
My point is that very, very few people (including people here) will ever notice the extra CPU power and memory bandwidth over the mainstream setup, except in synthetic benchmarks and video processing. Even most of you who will quote me and tell me to go hang out at casualcomputerforum in reality won't even notice the difference. Yes for those who want to run 72 Geforce Titans it matters. Yes perhaps to those looking to use RAID cards and SLI or other complex setups like that. But for 99% of us we could just pay a bunch less money for the mainstream setup - and stop kidding yourselves that you need the top-level motherboards with every single feature - and the money we save could be used to buy a new mainstream platform the next year or the year after, and by then 2011 will be dead.
If you need the extra stuff, fine. If you don't need it and don't mind spending extra money anyway, fine. But a cost effective decision for the rest of us it is not.
The inference we can draw right now is that while OS reservation hasn't been locked down, developers have access to at least six of the eight cores of the PS4's CPU.
What are you guys planning to do with your i7-920s? Seems like a lot of 920 owners including myself plan to make the leap to Haswell. I have to admit, having owned nearly everything from the 8086 on up, I have never had a PC stand the test of time as long as Nehalem. I'm not sure what to do with it; it's the first time my 4-year-old computer doesn't feel 4 years old.
So investing in a 6+ core system isn't going to be a waste.
Meh, I don't agree with the correlation. I'd still much rather have (and am 99.9% sure the average user will be better off with) 4 significantly faster cores than 6 slower ones.
Indeed. I would never "upgrade" to an Extreme-type CPU if it doesn't win single core performance. Single core speed is still far too important in far too many things.
When more games start using 4+ cores (which will be sooner than later) you will be wishing you had a 6 core+ system.
Wishful thinking. By that time, most people would have upgraded to faster, better hardware.
Not going to happen before 3rd june
Looks like the biggest improvements were on the igpu. Everywhere else, meh.
that is true clock for clock. but how high can that thing oc? if it can hit 5.2+ on air? that would be great.
Coming from a Q6600 (yes I'm still using that), would there be much of a difference between the i7-3770 or the Haswell equivalent? My main CPU use is rendering, with Maya 2014.
I know those benchmarks are iffy, but the fact that it shows World of Warcraft as actually running slower on the 4770K has me a bit worried.
World of Warcraft uses mainly one CPU core, with a few auxiliary tasks taking place on additional cores. Total CPU usage on a quad-core CPU (no-HT) almost never exceeds 50%. It is incredibly IPC sensitive for those first two cores. Why the hell would it actually perform slower on haswell?
Coming from a Q6600 (yes I'm still using that), would there be much of a difference between the i7-3770 or the Haswell equivalent? My main CPU use is rendering, with Maya 2014.
Ugh. I'm on a 920 and convinced myself last year that after the disappointing Ivy Bridge launch to wait for Haswell to upgrade. I really want to upgrade, but at this point it seems to be like throwing good money after the bathwater.
Ugh. I'm on a 920 and convinced myself last year that after the disappointing Ivy Bridge launch to wait for Haswell to upgrade. I really want to upgrade, but at this point it seems to be like throwing good money after the bathwater.
I don't know... 920 to Haswell is quite a big jump in performance and quite a big drop in power consumption.
It's a decent jump in performance yes, but how can I justify buying haswell over Ivy/sandy if some games I will get slightly less performance? I know it's too early to say but those wow benchmarks are hard to swallow if true. As far as power consumption heh I could care less.