Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
For someone building a new PC,if price is right, 4770K is the best you can buy. But for someone who already own SB or IB I doubt this would be a good upgrade. You have to sell your board and CPU ,buy a new combo, and for what? 3-8% IPC improvement with similar OC margin? Seems like a waste of money to me(unless someone doesn't care much for money and wants absolute best). Until AVX2/FMA3 workloads become normal IB at the same clock would be pretty much indistinguishable in legacy workloads from Haswell.
the return performance is less with every generation it seems.
time to upgrade from my 2 year and counting 2500k though.