Thread: Haswell, Buy or Wait?

3930K is what I gots!

Originally Posted by Nuckle

I really wish you would put your beast up against this game. It is shocking to be honest. Krom gained 5fps after adding a second 680.


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Maybe I will get it this week. I am not a fan of the ARMA series, personally, but I would like to see how it runs.

Originally Posted by WileECyte

All of the 'E' series parts are premium price parts... Ivy Bridge 'E' hasn't even officially launched yet. It was announced for Sept 2013. A couple of TPGers have Sandy Bridge E parts... HeavyG and Kanati are two I know have them.. You can sometimes get a deal on them (which is what happened with Heavy) but they are a premium price part, and typically aren't worth the premium to a gamer.

Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E 3.5GHz (4.0GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 150W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73970X - Newegg.com
Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E 3.3GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73960X - Newegg.com

The one 'bargain'

Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73930K - Newegg.com

This is true. If Flame wouldn't have hooked me up, I would still have the 2600K. Those are still great CPUs.

I have a 3770k and am VERY happy

I've got my 2600k as well and haven't given too much thought to upgrading my CPU just yet... But a 50% increase in thread count would be nice...

Perhaps I will upgrade sooner than later

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Originally Posted by salty99

I've got my 2600k as well and haven't given too much thought to upgrading my CPU just yet... But a 50% increase in thread count would be nice...

Perhaps I will upgrade sooner than later

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Threads only matter if you video cap, export, or deal with CGI software. Games only take advantage of a maximum of 4 threads on average from what I know. So unless you do more than just games on your PC it's really not going to matter all that much.

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That's part of the reason I haven't upgraded yet. Gaming and software development and some minor graphic design right now; but I will be doing a lot of 3d modeling and CGI rendering in about a year. I'll definitely make use of those extra threads

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More and more games are taking advantage of multi-threading. BF3, for example, will take advantage of every core/thread you have available. I read somewhere that BF3 has upwards of 40 threads running at one time, which should be able to be processed by a modern quad core. Having more cores/threads just means it will handle the game much easier, and allow your system to have reserve resources to run other applications in the background.

The Metro games are also very resource hungry and gobble up threads. It isn't uncommon to see these games taking more advantage of modern systems if they can. Since most modern games are console ports, there really hasn't been much need for heavily multi-threaded games.

Originally Posted by HeavyG

More and more games are taking advantage of multi-threading. BF3, for example, will take advantage of every core/thread you have available. I read somewhere that BF3 has upwards of 40 threads running at one time, which should be able to be processed by a modern quad core. Having more cores/threads just means it will handle the game much easier, and allow your system to have reserve resources to run other applications in the background.

The Metro games are also very resource hungry and gobble up threads. It isn't uncommon to see these games taking more advantage of modern systems if they can. Since most modern games are console ports, there really hasn't been much need for heavily multi-threaded games.

I suspect the newer games from here on will take advantage of at the least 8 cores/threads since the new consoles themselves are 8 core machines but anymore than that will be very few and far between just like today.

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Yeah, the game changes big time now that Sony & Microsoft have x86 based console systems.