I was planning on building a PC by the end of the year. It would include an intel extreme edition processor, and whatever rendition of the GTX Titan is available (the ultra?) in hydro copper form. A month or two after I buy the parts I was planning on picking up a second gpu for multi monitor gaming if I felt I needed it. Of course if I bought all this, I couldn't make a similar rig in at least two or three years. I looked at the haswell-e platform, and it looks very good. It could support up to 8 cores and store 20mb of shared cache along with ddr4. I'm not too sure what lga 2011-3 would be like, but my guess is that with the release of Haswell some new technology (sata 4?) would be released, with plenty of awesome motherboards supporting it. The original motherboard I was planning on buying was the asrock exreme11, which really is amazing. I hope they continue to make something like that with haswell-e. By the time haswell e releases, Nvidia's Maxwell architecture will also increase, only adding to all the great benefits. My only problem is: would it be worth the wait? My pc isn't really that great (it was an oem from dell) but I bought a gtx 570 2 years after I bought the god forsaken thing. It can carry me as far as gaming and daily tasks go, but I plan on drafting/CADing, modding, programming, etc. I know you don't need a super computer for these, but as a said a triple monitor display needs the brawn to do it. The end of this year would mark the 4th year I had my pc, and when they say H2 of 2014 I'm not sure if that means in the summer or winter. Anyone's opinion on this?
TL;DR: I was planning on building a pc by the end of the year. my pc is meh now, not sure if should wait for haswell-e or not.
TL;DR: I was planning on building a pc by the end of the year. my pc is meh now, not sure if should wait for haswell-e or not.