[OC3D Poll] Will you be upgrading to Haswell?

Shall you be upgrading to Haswell?

  • Yes, straight away!

    Votes: 42 17.3%

  • No, I'll stick with what i've got.

    Votes: 109 44.9%

  • I'll likely wait for the prices to come down later in the year, then upgrade my system.

    Votes: 31 12.8%

  • I want to wait until the price lists have been released before I make any real decision.

    Votes: 28 11.5%

  • I honestly don't have a clue.

    Votes: 33 13.6%
  • Total voters
    243
the reservations on moving for me are just not enough power difference to move
the needle into gut wrenching betterment. until the benches come in, and toc amount
of difference is there (30% better).. I don't see another side-ways move is in the
cards for me.
 
I'm starting to have second thoughts about up(side)grading now. After seeing the All AMD build thread and looking more closely at the performance of the 8350 vs 3570k and even the 3770k, i'm thinking of just grabbing one to mix things up till next year when Broadwell and the new FX CPUs are out.

It's not going to cost me much at all to switch to an 8350, not as much as it would to go Haswell anyway.
 
SieB said:
I'm starting to have second thoughts about up(side)grading now. After seeing the All AMD build thread and looking more closely at the performance of the 8350 vs 3570k and even the 3770k, i'm thinking of just grabbing one to mix things up till next year when Broadwell and the new FX CPUs are out.

It's not going to cost me much at all to switch to an 8350, not as much as it would to go Haswell anyway.
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IMO your 2500k right now is a better CPU than the 8350. I was thinking about getting an 8320 but only if MSI screw me over with my RMA.

You gotta fight that itch man seriously :)
 
I just want new toys to play with :lol:

Not sure what to do, i'll just have to wait and see. Gonna delay my Haswell plans and see what happens I think.
 
What happened to your board? I had the g43, Such a shyt board. The thing would cycle 3 times before actually booting because the board would struggle to detect the ram. Biggest pain was not having the SLI option and not being allowed to manually change the voltages. If it wasn't for that board I'd probably have a GTX 680 right now..
 
Haswell is going to be a 20% improvement over Sandy Bridge, for me that doesn't justify the cost.

If it was still on the 1155 socket then maybe I would go for it but considering it's looking like £170 for the 4670k +£100 at least for a motherboard I really can't rationalise spending that amount for the performance increase.

If I had that money it'd either go on a new case + XSPC Raystorm kit or another 7870 Tahiti LE for Xfire.
 
SieB said:
I just want new toys to play with :lol:

Not sure what to do, i'll just have to wait and see. Gonna delay my Haswell plans and see what happens I think.
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Yeah me too dude I've had my Xeon for a whole year now :lol:

I had a dream last night that I got it to 4.3ghz. Not going to happen but I'll settle for 4ghz :lol:
 
I said earlier if I had the money I'd go for it, but that was not totally serious. Actually I'd probably just get a great video card for my current system and make the whole think wet, cpu and gpu, not just the CPU.

The local Pottawatomie Indians opened a new casino 10 minutes away from me, I should take $20.00 and play the quarter slots. :)
 
I'm still on an old i3 530 so an upgrade is definitely overdue imo.

Prices for Ivy Bridge went up after launch, not down, so I think I will dive in straight away. Unless the reviews are awful of course.
 
Willzzz said:
I'm still on an old i3 530 so an upgrade is definitely overdue imo.

Prices for Ivy Bridge went up after launch, not down, so I think I will dive in straight away. Unless the reviews are awful of course.
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It will skyrocket after the first month.

3770k price chart below

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I jumped on the ivy-bridge train so no real point to upgrade to haswell. Ivy-Bridge E is most likely my next chip, or maybe FX steamroller if by some miracle they release it this side of xmas. More cores +ps4 will be good times :D
 
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