I'm in the midst of researching for a new build and have a lot of questions. I haven't followed the tech as closely as I'd like to have for a few years.
My decision to build now or wait will be based on the new tech coming out and when it's coming out. I want to put together a higher end gaming rig and am worried about buying too soon and missing out on big performance gains.
The current Haswell i7 chips, the 4770 and 4790 right? Will the new chips coming out this year be much of an increase in performance there? One big thing that I'm hearing "wait for this to come out" for is Intel's 8 core chip. Now going from a current i7 to that 8 core chip, with a new board and DDR4 RAM will be a significant gain in performance but at what cost? Won't that chip be around $1000 when it comes out? What I don't want to happen is sink a couple of grand into a new system and then 2 months later it be significantly behind in performance. I understand that's the way of the tech world but I want to avoid losing out on a huge gain.
Essentially my question is, should I wait? For how long, and how much of a performance gain will be available in what amount of time? I'm still running an 775 socket system and am eager to upgrade, but don't want to miss out on huge gains in performance.
Thanks.
My decision to build now or wait will be based on the new tech coming out and when it's coming out. I want to put together a higher end gaming rig and am worried about buying too soon and missing out on big performance gains.
The current Haswell i7 chips, the 4770 and 4790 right? Will the new chips coming out this year be much of an increase in performance there? One big thing that I'm hearing "wait for this to come out" for is Intel's 8 core chip. Now going from a current i7 to that 8 core chip, with a new board and DDR4 RAM will be a significant gain in performance but at what cost? Won't that chip be around $1000 when it comes out? What I don't want to happen is sink a couple of grand into a new system and then 2 months later it be significantly behind in performance. I understand that's the way of the tech world but I want to avoid losing out on a huge gain.
Essentially my question is, should I wait? For how long, and how much of a performance gain will be available in what amount of time? I'm still running an 775 socket system and am eager to upgrade, but don't want to miss out on huge gains in performance.
Thanks.
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