Haswell Reviews

[flopper]

Haswell is a huge disappointment for me, i don't want to upgrade my rock solid 2500k@4.7ghz for a 4770k that may not reach the same speed without delidding and/or watercooling. I remember someone saying that we would not be disappointed when it came to OCing and haswell. I might pick up a 3770k at microcenter if the price is right and even that will need delidding unless i get a golden chip.

4.6ghz sandy to 4.6ghz Haswell.
However I run watercooling and done so for years.
no temp issues.
I would say for an entusiast its not as good as one would want.
I was due for an upgrade since I was sitting with a 2.5 year old motherboard anyhow.

[nossy23]

I'm pretty pissed I have the 'upgrade' from an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 with 2600K CPU to a Haswell setup, as my motherboard is dying It's like throwing away money. What's a normal overclock we can expect these days for the I7 4770K with good aircooling? 4.3Ghz?

[onewingedangel]

I'm pretty pissed I have the 'upgrade' from an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 with 2600K CPU to a Haswell setup, as my motherboard is dying It's like throwing away money. What's a normal overclock we can expect these days for the I7 4770K with good aircooling? 4.3Ghz?

Or you can just replace your motherboard and pocket the savings.

[nossy23]

Or you can just replace your motherboard and pocket the savings.

Sure, but that's just the one good thing Haswell has going for it: there are some really nice motherboards for it. Plus, and I admit it's a low probability, it's might also be the CPU that is defective.

[lutjens]

I think you guys are going to love the next Xtreme Edition

Francois

Given what I've seen so far on the next EE, which looks like the i7-4960x...There's very little for enthusiasts to "love" about this CPU. Another Xeon reject with very little performance improvement over Sandy Bridge-E (other than power consumption). I think servers will benefit most from Ivy Bridge-EP and that the desktop E CPU exists only to provide an outlet for Intel to recover some $$$ from the plentiful amount of defective Xeon dies from the considerable number of wafers being run to satisfy EP demand for 8-12 cores CPUs.

Call me when Intel decides to produce a real Extreme Edition instead of another watered-down reject...I won't be upgrading until Intel produces something truly Extreme...