Hello, I have decided that I am going to be buying an Intel i7 Processor this year. However, I do not know what one I want. I know that generally speaking, the Sandy Bridge-E and upcoming Ivy bridge-E are a lot more expensive with the exception of two processors, the i7 3820 and the upcoming i7 4820k.
The main selling points of the LGA 2011 for me are the better upgrade path, the ability to run crossfire on X16 PCIe vs X8, and potentially the higher performance. The problem is that the higher end CPU's are around $600 and $1000 respectively and the motherboards cost more and are usually larger.
As for Haswell I am really liking the lower power consumption and the cheaper price of the motherboards for more features. But I have heard that gamers do not like them because they run hotter and have barely more performance than Ivy Bridge.
I do not really care much for overclocking past 4.2 GHz because I feel it isn't worth the time invested for gaming, and I also generally do not like motherboards that cost so much because they have too many crazy features instead of quality of build. Yes i am planning on doing 7950 crossfire.
The main selling points of the LGA 2011 for me are the better upgrade path, the ability to run crossfire on X16 PCIe vs X8, and potentially the higher performance. The problem is that the higher end CPU's are around $600 and $1000 respectively and the motherboards cost more and are usually larger.
As for Haswell I am really liking the lower power consumption and the cheaper price of the motherboards for more features. But I have heard that gamers do not like them because they run hotter and have barely more performance than Ivy Bridge.
I do not really care much for overclocking past 4.2 GHz because I feel it isn't worth the time invested for gaming, and I also generally do not like motherboards that cost so much because they have too many crazy features instead of quality of build. Yes i am planning on doing 7950 crossfire.