IVY BRIDGE NOW or HASWELL (8 months later)
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I am Trying to Build a new system and I have picked all of my parts. Yesterday I found out about Intel's new socket that comes out march/june 2013 and now I am wanting to wait for the new socket and not buy IVY Bridge. For the mean I am trying to build an AMD machine that will only cost 200 dollars of parts that I'm not going to use on HASWELL(A8-3870k, 4GB ddr3, $50 motherboard). Im not going to be doing hardcore gaming yet, just doing stuff for school. HASWELL IS A NEW SOCKET and USES DDR4 MEMORY. I assume that Haswell will perform better that IVY BRIDGE. I just want the better bang for my money. SO, SHOULD I BUY IVY BRIDGE AND SKIP HASWELL AND SAVE $200 on not building a temporary PC, or wait and GET HASWELL AND MAYBE WASTE $200 on a temporary PC? I say maybe because I can use the AMD system for other stuff... (AND I know I can buy now and sell the parts later but people might not buy the old parts (EBAY SUCKS because they limit how many you can sell). THANKS FOR THE HELP!
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If I remember correctly only the server CPU versions of Haswell will use DDR4. I don't believe DDR4 is expected to be used by Intel consumer level (you & me) CPUs until they release Skylake in 2015. Haswell will use DDR3 RAM.
The performance improvement of Haswell over Ivy Bridge is unknown. Some think 10% (reasonable), others are guessing 25% (I want what they are smoking). For me to "waste" $200 on an interim PC the performance will have to be at least 20% better... at least.
Most games are limited by the graphic card rather than the CPU unless the CPU is so slow that it bottlenecks the graphics card. I assume you have a real old or weak PC right now so I recommend that you simply go ahead and build your PC around Ivy Bridge.
Personally, I am waiting for Haswell or perhaps Broadwell in 2014. My Q9450 still provides me with adequate performance despite being over 4 years old.
The performance improvement of Haswell over Ivy Bridge is unknown. Some think 10% (reasonable), others are guessing 25% (I want what they are smoking). For me to "waste" $200 on an interim PC the performance will have to be at least 20% better... at least.
Most games are limited by the graphic card rather than the CPU unless the CPU is so slow that it bottlenecks the graphics card. I assume you have a real old or weak PC right now so I recommend that you simply go ahead and build your PC around Ivy Bridge.
Personally, I am waiting for Haswell or perhaps Broadwell in 2014. My Q9450 still provides me with adequate performance despite being over 4 years old.
there is absolutely no reason to wait eight months. there is even less of a reason to buy an interim rig.
get the best your budget can afford and it will be fine for quite sometime. it eight months; if it was two months then maybe. but there still can be a substantial delay before haswell is released.
get the best your budget can afford and it will be fine for quite sometime. it eight months; if it was two months then maybe. but there still can be a substantial delay before haswell is released.
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