I have recently have been thinking of moving to Haswell for my upgrade. Previously I was just pricing things out before my purchase and was pretty set on an older ivy bridge more specifically the I5-3570k.
I did post some of my previous concerns with Haswell on here earlier and got this answer that got me thinking:
" I don’t think there’s any compelling reason to move from an Ivy Bridge or even a Sandy Bridge based system to a Haswell system– there simply isn’t enough performance and feature differential to justify it. On the other hand, if you’re building a new rig from scratch, there’s little point in investing in end-of-life platforms, so going Haswell/Z87 makes sense."
What got me thinking was I'm moving from an AMD quad core system several years old, actually closer to 5-7 years old. Either way you look at it, I'm upgrading. But like what was qouted above I really don't want to invest into a " end of life platform"
I know the performance increase from Ivy bridge to Haswell is minimal but do you think its worth grabbing a Ivy bridge CPU rather than a newer slightly better CPU? Price is also a minimal increase but that's no much of a concern as the difference is maybe 40$ or so. I would rather get more life now and possibly pay less later especially if the newer CPU's use the same socket.
I did post some of my previous concerns with Haswell on here earlier and got this answer that got me thinking:
" I don’t think there’s any compelling reason to move from an Ivy Bridge or even a Sandy Bridge based system to a Haswell system– there simply isn’t enough performance and feature differential to justify it. On the other hand, if you’re building a new rig from scratch, there’s little point in investing in end-of-life platforms, so going Haswell/Z87 makes sense."
What got me thinking was I'm moving from an AMD quad core system several years old, actually closer to 5-7 years old. Either way you look at it, I'm upgrading. But like what was qouted above I really don't want to invest into a " end of life platform"
I know the performance increase from Ivy bridge to Haswell is minimal but do you think its worth grabbing a Ivy bridge CPU rather than a newer slightly better CPU? Price is also a minimal increase but that's no much of a concern as the difference is maybe 40$ or so. I would rather get more life now and possibly pay less later especially if the newer CPU's use the same socket.
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