Haswell build

[Bradtech519]

Anyone planning on upgrading? I've thought about getting an I5 or going down the FX8320 AMD route. Currently running a phenom II x4 965 which is still a good chip halfway into 2013.

 

[sangyup81]

you could always OC the 965BE if you haven't yet

also, AVX might be a consideration in the future so you'd definitely want an i5 over the 8320 in that case since the AMD implementation of AVX isn't great

 

[Bradtech519]

Thanks for the info. Looking into AVX right now. Looks like I'm finding info on primegrid already supporting it. Some coders on the seti@home forums doing some development on it also. I know Intel has strong IPC but wasn't sure if an I5 would offset the extra four cores the FX 8320/8350 offers.

you could always OC the 965BE if you haven't yet

also, AVX might be a consideration in the future so you'd definitely want an i5 over the 8320 in that case since the AMD implementation of AVX isn't great

 

[VirtualLarry]

Thanks for the info. Looking into AVX right now. Looks like I'm finding info on primegrid already supporting it. Some coders on the seti@home forums doing some development on it also. I know Intel has strong IPC but wasn't sure if an I5 would offset the extra four cores the FX 8320/8350 offers.

Most DC projects use floating-point, I think. The AMD FX CPUs have "cores", but they are really speaking of integer core pipeline. They are made of modules, and each module shares an FPU core. So really, AMD's "8 core" CPUs are really "4 core" when it comes to floating-point. So the Intel's can be comparable in performance, for less power usage.

 

[Bradtech519]

Thanks I am looking into some used 2nd gen I7s. 2600k.

Most DC projects use floating-point, I think. The AMD FX CPUs have "cores", but they are really speaking of integer core pipeline. They are made of modules, and each module shares an FPU core. So really, AMD's "8 core" CPUs are really "4 core" when it comes to floating-point. So the Intel's can be comparable in performance, for less power usage.