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Started by sebastian869 | | 3 answers
Does it make sense to go ahead with a modern build or wait for x99 Haswell-E and the new CPUs?
Haswell-E
Basically was looking to get an i7-4790k and an asus MAXIMUS VII HERO or ASRock Z97 Extreme6 LGA 1150
and an ASUS DirectCU II GTX780TI-DC2OC-3GD5 G-SYNC 8-16GB(Plan with the GPU is wait then when priced drop buy another and would love it if i can put 2 into 2x16 3.0 which u cant do with the 1150) Then out of the blue I see Asrock saying stuff about x99 and mentions Haswell-e will have faster CPU. Plus it seems every feature is stealing lanes like SATA or m2. etc and another benefit is more CPU Core and ddr4,seems like it’s a good buy was wondering what you guys think.
http://wccftech.com/gigabyte-shows-x99-gaming-g1-wifi-m...
http://wccftech.com/intel-haswelle-core-i7-5960x-core-i...
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August 23, 2014 9:13:15 AM

I also Agree with Viking, the 800 series GPU's are going to be amazing go look at the 750 and 750ti reviews toms did, these are 800 series GPU's just without the lithography change but has the Maxwell architecture. That article made me giddy at the results they got
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August 16, 2014 6:21:37 AM

You could wait. Idk what your budget is gonna be, but If your into Nvidia, I'd wait till the 8 series to buy a GPU, If your wanting a Intel, just put it off for a while and see what happens, AMD isn't really ready to come out with a new CPU yet, other then APU's, And I don't care for APU's much right now.
August 10, 2014 4:58:04 PM

There are several factors that you have to think of.
1. There has not been much of a difference between gen 2,3,&4 lga 1150,1155 CPU's Except later ones have a few more instruction sets,
2. Running a GPU at PCIE 3.0 X8 makes no difference than if you were to run it at X16 - i can say this from Experience
3. DDR4 will be a worthy upgrade but there is no telling if DDR4 will be released at the same time as the motherboards capable of using it
4. The Extra cores of lga 2011 will almost be of no use to you unless you are doing more than gaming, as of now few games can make use of more than 4 cores, however if you are doing video rendering and content creation than you will want the extra cores.

so in the end its all up to you, if you build one now u'll have it sooner but if you wait you may get better performance, however if the trend stays the same you will see no major difference.

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