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RabidSnail

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So I am planning on building a few computers for some friends soon, And i am faced with the issue of waiting for the Haswell processor. Everything that i am reading on it placed it coming out early june, with the major improvements being significantly less power consumption and better integrated graphics. being desktops for design school, they need a high end graphics card anyway, so the graphics isnt an issue, and being desktops, power consumption isnt an issue.

So would it be better to wait until Haswell comes out and try to grab an Ivy Bridge for cheaper, or just buy the Haswell since im sure there will be some improved performance?
 
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Games isnt the Issue for me, We do a lot of 3d modeling and Rendering. I also have a first gen i7 and it works great for almost everything except those few days that i am hard at work :p Im really just wondering what the performance increase is going to be vs the cost decrease for the soon to be outdated Ivy Bridge
 
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Here are two benchmarks related to what you plan on doing...

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The i7-4770k has about a 7.5% edge over the i7-3770k in Blender and about a 6.1% advantage when looking a 3D Max. The performance difference is relatively small. However, for large and complex project that performance difference may be worth waiting for.

For example, if you are working on a 3D Max project that takes 24 hours to render using the i7-3770k, then based on the above benchmark, doing it on an i7-4770k will take about 22 hours and 10 minutes.


Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-4770k-haswell-performance,3461.html
 
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well as far as i know you actually need cpu power for 3d editing operations. the thing in here is you may need more threads/core instead pure core frequency since pro applications doesnt really appreciate pure speed instead they require parallel operations.

so...

ivy bridge and haswell will have the same operation frequencies and same number of cores/threads but early benchmarks show that eventhough both chips looks similar haswell works 10-15% more efficient and faster.
the things is, thats my personal opinion by the way, since the core/thread/frequency will be the same i dont think it will significantly effect your 3d-pro applications while operating.

as you may also know that computer industry these days are fooling around games and benchmarks are also threaded the same way. if your purposes are for professional only, throw the cash on ivy bridge when haswell comes out.

peace. :)
 
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haswell cpu are 8-13% better than the ivy bridge
if u can wait till june u might wanna check the release price of haswell and then decide accordingly
although intel has done a good job in the releasing prices of their cpu's before
 
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