Haswell or Ivy bridge
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jamesriley94
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What do you use the PC for?
jamesriley94
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I love how certain people class overclocking as a use of the PC 
I'd personally go for a 3770k and Z77 motherboard now. They'll keep a relatively good resale value if you do chose to upgrade again for Haswell.
You'll be disappointed though if Haswell isn't great and you've waited that long to build a rig with it. At least if you buy now and it turns out to be good you can still upgrade, or chose not to if it's bad.
Nobody can really answer your question though, as release could be delayed, and no one knows any benchmarks yet...
I'd personally go for a 3770k and Z77 motherboard now. They'll keep a relatively good resale value if you do chose to upgrade again for Haswell.
You'll be disappointed though if Haswell isn't great and you've waited that long to build a rig with it. At least if you buy now and it turns out to be good you can still upgrade, or chose not to if it's bad.
Nobody can really answer your question though, as release could be delayed, and no one knows any benchmarks yet...
Master&Puppet
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I would think that haswell is going to be delayed given the competition at the moment. I would if I were Intel. Q3-4 2014 likely I would think - it will partly depend on how quickly intel want to release for the mobile market.
In any case - the focus will be on power consumption and performance per Watt, not raw performance. I'd expect to slightly slightly better performance than IB but much lower TDP. I'd upgrade now
In any case - the focus will be on power consumption and performance per Watt, not raw performance. I'd expect to slightly slightly better performance than IB but much lower TDP. I'd upgrade now
MacLeod
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Normally my rule is to never wait cause they're will always be something newer, better and cheaper coming out right around the corner. But in this instance, I say wait.
Haswell is supposed to start production late on Q4 of 2012 which is right about now and be out for retail around Q2 of 2013. That's not that long a wait.
Now the main reason I say wait is the rumor that just sprung up that the next generation, Broadwell, wont be available to buy separately and will only be available soldered to the motherboard. Desktop CPU's for that generation will be stepped up Haswell procs which likely means they'll still work on Haswell socket motherboards and that means you can keep your Haswell rig a generation longer. Drop one of the refreshed Haswell chips in your rig in 2014 and you've got a lot more life without have to swap in a whole new mobo and OS and all that.
Now all that said, it ultimately comes down to what you're running now. If you're on a AM2 dual core then you might as well jump now but if you've got something solid like a i7-920 or even Core 2 Quad, then it might be worth it to stick it out a little longer at least until we get a little more info on those Boradwell rumors.
Haswell is supposed to start production late on Q4 of 2012 which is right about now and be out for retail around Q2 of 2013. That's not that long a wait.
Now the main reason I say wait is the rumor that just sprung up that the next generation, Broadwell, wont be available to buy separately and will only be available soldered to the motherboard. Desktop CPU's for that generation will be stepped up Haswell procs which likely means they'll still work on Haswell socket motherboards and that means you can keep your Haswell rig a generation longer. Drop one of the refreshed Haswell chips in your rig in 2014 and you've got a lot more life without have to swap in a whole new mobo and OS and all that.
Now all that said, it ultimately comes down to what you're running now. If you're on a AM2 dual core then you might as well jump now but if you've got something solid like a i7-920 or even Core 2 Quad, then it might be worth it to stick it out a little longer at least until we get a little more info on those Boradwell rumors.
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