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- Dec 8, 2008
So, my little brother is looking at getting some new hardware... this gives me a fantastic excuse to upgrade and give him some good stuff all cheap-like. 
My current rig is in my signature; I have a few upgrade paths that I could take..
I'm not sure Ivy Bridge-E is enough of an upgrade to justify the expenditure, but it's still an option.
Haswell vs Haswell E though is a little tougher for me to decide. The biggest difference (outside of the 6/8 core cpus) that I see is DDR4 memory, and price.
My budget is pretty flexible. If the performance is justifiably better, I can work out funds over time to make it work.
I'm wanting to go i7 this time around, rather than i5. Thanks to the new consoles, multithreading is becoming more commonplace in PC gaming, with many new games requiring at least a quad core, and recommending 6-8 cores. I would like to get out ahead of that and build this set up to last for another few years at least. Outside of gaming, I am a developer, and while most of my development does happen at work, I do work on some personal projects from time to time.
With the thought in mind that I'd like to move up to at least a hyperthreaded quadcore, do you all think Haswell-E is enough of an improvement to justify upgrading? More so, I guess is it really worth spending the extra money on the platform given prices on DDR4 and the Haswell-E CPU's?
It just seems like an odd time to be upgrading, given that Broadwell is right around the corner, and Skylake isn't supposed to be far behind that. However, the upgrade bug has bitten me pretty hard now that my brother has mentioned he wants some better stuff... lol. What do you guys think?
My current rig is in my signature; I have a few upgrade paths that I could take..
- Haswell -- i7 4770k + Z97 mobo
- Ivy Bridge-E -- i7 4820k/4930k + X79 mobo
- Haswell-E -- i7 5820k + X99 mobo
- Wait for Broadwell
- Wait for Skylake
I'm not sure Ivy Bridge-E is enough of an upgrade to justify the expenditure, but it's still an option.
Haswell vs Haswell E though is a little tougher for me to decide. The biggest difference (outside of the 6/8 core cpus) that I see is DDR4 memory, and price.
My budget is pretty flexible. If the performance is justifiably better, I can work out funds over time to make it work.
I'm wanting to go i7 this time around, rather than i5. Thanks to the new consoles, multithreading is becoming more commonplace in PC gaming, with many new games requiring at least a quad core, and recommending 6-8 cores. I would like to get out ahead of that and build this set up to last for another few years at least. Outside of gaming, I am a developer, and while most of my development does happen at work, I do work on some personal projects from time to time.
With the thought in mind that I'd like to move up to at least a hyperthreaded quadcore, do you all think Haswell-E is enough of an improvement to justify upgrading? More so, I guess is it really worth spending the extra money on the platform given prices on DDR4 and the Haswell-E CPU's?
It just seems like an odd time to be upgrading, given that Broadwell is right around the corner, and Skylake isn't supposed to be far behind that. However, the upgrade bug has bitten me pretty hard now that my brother has mentioned he wants some better stuff... lol. What do you guys think?