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have ivy mobo, buy ivy or new mobo + haswell?

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July 17, 2014 12:02:17 PM

Hello. I started saving for a PC a while a go (hence ivy mobo) and then had other things I needed to spend money on :( . I have so far bought the mobo, case and PSU and want to know whether it is worth buying a new mobo (was around £50-60) or to just stick with ivy bridge. The CPU will either be a xeon e3 1230v2 or 1230v3 depending on motherboard choice. This will be a silence optimised digital audio workstation + gaming, in case its relevent. Thanks.

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July 17, 2014 12:04:38 PM

Ivy Bridge and Haswell both use 1150 (or 2011) pin CPUs. It may be best to wait and buy all your components together and make sure you get compatible stuff right at the time you're going to buy.
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July 17, 2014 12:07:53 PM

Thanks for the reply but Ivy bridge = lga1155 and haswell = lga1150.
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July 17, 2014 12:12:11 PM

Darn.. sorry. It's been such a long time. I forgot. :) 

Still, save your money, don't buy individual components until you can buy all.
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July 17, 2014 12:28:01 PM

Since you already have the ivy bridge mobo, and the performance difference between the 2 isn't that great, it makes the most sense to me to buy the v2 chip, and save the cost of another motherboard, plus the higher cost of the v3.
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