- Sep 8, 2011
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There is definitely not a shortage of forums debating the future of and I don't really want to get into that so much outside of a computer upgrade.. I have been building AMD computers since the K7 line. I don't regret most of my choices with AMD. Until recently, they have always been solid price to performance processors. However, after Bulldozer and Piledriver's miserable failure at even being able to put a dent into Intel's enthusiast market, I am done. I am turning my FX system into a fileserver, throwing Linux on it, and loading it with drives for storage.
With that being said, I am in the market of a new board/cpu. Obviously being a gamer mostly, I am interested in making the switch back to Intel after all these years. Let's face it, if you game, you want performance, so you go with Intel. Doing my research into Intel, the two obvious choices are LGA-2011 and LGA-1150. I read enough about the Ivy Bridge-E to know that that is probably where I want to go. However, two things are *really* nagging me about going this route:
1) What really is the future of Ivy Bridge and LGA-2011? Anyone with some serious insight would really be helpful.. I mean, with Haswell out, and talks of Haswell-E coming out (http://www.hitechreview.com/it-products/pc/intel-describes-haswell-e-future-lga-2011-processors/43237/) and the whole X99 chipset.. if I buy into an LGA-2011 board now, will I just have to buy another board to support X99/Haswell-E??? I am assuming the answer to that question is sadly, yes... so if that is the case, why don't I just go with Haswell now, save the money until Haswell-E and X99 chipset is released?? Along these lines, one thing I do is SLI (dual). Haswell and the limited PCI-E lanes means I cannot run my two GTX 770 in 16x (I assume I read this correct regarding Haswell and PCI-E lane restrictions), what kind of performance dip would I see using two higher end video cards in a dual 8x mode??
2) I understand that part one was long, and was riddled with multiple parts to it so I will keep this short.. the other thing nagging me is this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128596
This system board, albeit belongs in the Haswell line, is pretty freaking b.a. That being said, if someone here knows that buying into the Ivy Bridge-E line now, even though the X99 chipset will bring about a brand new architecture for the LGA-2011 socket, what similar system board would you suggest..
I do apologize for this, I know it was long and even though my system hardware knowledge is pretty vast, I have not been an "intel guy" for many, many years and their sockets, chipsets, and processor families are all relatively new to me.. I want to buy into something that is going to give me the performance I want as a game, and won't make me cringe when something better comes out. The worst feeling is dumping a lot of money on computer parts only to have a whole new line of hardware come out that is way better than what you just bought.... we can probably all agree that this is the worst feeling in the world!
With that being said, I am in the market of a new board/cpu. Obviously being a gamer mostly, I am interested in making the switch back to Intel after all these years. Let's face it, if you game, you want performance, so you go with Intel. Doing my research into Intel, the two obvious choices are LGA-2011 and LGA-1150. I read enough about the Ivy Bridge-E to know that that is probably where I want to go. However, two things are *really* nagging me about going this route:
1) What really is the future of Ivy Bridge and LGA-2011? Anyone with some serious insight would really be helpful.. I mean, with Haswell out, and talks of Haswell-E coming out (http://www.hitechreview.com/it-products/pc/intel-describes-haswell-e-future-lga-2011-processors/43237/) and the whole X99 chipset.. if I buy into an LGA-2011 board now, will I just have to buy another board to support X99/Haswell-E??? I am assuming the answer to that question is sadly, yes... so if that is the case, why don't I just go with Haswell now, save the money until Haswell-E and X99 chipset is released?? Along these lines, one thing I do is SLI (dual). Haswell and the limited PCI-E lanes means I cannot run my two GTX 770 in 16x (I assume I read this correct regarding Haswell and PCI-E lane restrictions), what kind of performance dip would I see using two higher end video cards in a dual 8x mode??
2) I understand that part one was long, and was riddled with multiple parts to it so I will keep this short.. the other thing nagging me is this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128596
This system board, albeit belongs in the Haswell line, is pretty freaking b.a. That being said, if someone here knows that buying into the Ivy Bridge-E line now, even though the X99 chipset will bring about a brand new architecture for the LGA-2011 socket, what similar system board would you suggest..
I do apologize for this, I know it was long and even though my system hardware knowledge is pretty vast, I have not been an "intel guy" for many, many years and their sockets, chipsets, and processor families are all relatively new to me.. I want to buy into something that is going to give me the performance I want as a game, and won't make me cringe when something better comes out. The worst feeling is dumping a lot of money on computer parts only to have a whole new line of hardware come out that is way better than what you just bought.... we can probably all agree that this is the worst feeling in the world!
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