Haswell-E buyers: what are you upgrading from?

[JohnWayne74]

i7 860 for me, has served me well over the last 4 years.

X99 OC Formula for me, 5820k initially and then wait and see what Broadwell-E brings to the table next year.

Single high end GFX plus M.2 hence not wanting to go down the restrictive Z97 path.

Almost forgot, I hate iGPUs and now the only CPU's that intel make without them are the HEDT or XEONs.

Will X99 support support broadwell ?

 

[biostud]

Will X99 support support broadwell ?

Yes.

Looks like I'm going to get the Asrock X99 Extreme4.

 

[Railgun]

My i7 920 has 5 years.
It's still a nice cpu, and with oc still is a nice rig to do any job we can ask from a pc, from playing to run heavy software -

A near ditto on my 970

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Ha! That's interesting! Nehalems have it!

Point is -- I PLAN to build a Haswell-E as early as nine months from now. I don't NEED to do it; I just have . . . an addiction . . . . I can't . . . help . . . myself. But I can put it off for a while. I'm more addicted to watching my Quicken accounts . . . .

 

[Redstorm]

Will X99 support support broadwell ?

Broadwell - No
Broadwell-E - Yes

 

[wtwhizz]

So don't throw rotten vegetables at me and run me out of town, but. . .an E6600.

Getting a SSD for the first time, too.

I expect to pee my pants a little when I see what my new rig can do.

 

[Adamantine]

I'm upgrading from x58. I would have kept rocking the 920, but the springs on my cooler could no longer apply enough pressure so I though it died and bought an L5639/x5650 as a hold over until haswell-e. Certainly took Intel long enough to release it, I've been waiting a really long time for an upgrade.

I'm actually upgrading more for the x99 motherboard than a need for a new cpu.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Looks like alot of X58 boards will be for sale!

Yummy! haha

I'm pretty content with my new-found X58 system. The upgrade to this 32nm Xeon was 2-3 fold. Runs WAAAY cooler. 6c/12t. 4GHz @ 1.23v? Really? my i7 920 had a higher base vcore at 2.66GHz lol

My rig is nearing 6 or 7yrs old. Runs the new UE4 engine really well with Unreal Tournament 4

 

[Dave3000]

I'm upgrading from x58. I would have kept rocking the 920, but the springs on my cooler could no longer apply enough pressure so I though it died and bought an L5639/x5650 as a hold over until haswell-e. Certainly took Intel long enough to release it, I've been waiting a really long time for an upgrade.

I'm actually upgrading more for the x99 motherboard than a need for a new cpu.

When your CPU died, did you experience weird issues with your PC, like file corruption, BSOD, or crashes? I just interested in how a PC behaves when a CPU is near it's death.

 

[Adamantine]

When your CPU died, did you experience weird issues with your PC, like file corruption, BSOD, or crashes? I just interested in how a PC behaves when a CPU is near it's death.

The CPU didn't actually die, it would just go to a thermal shutdown once windows tried to load with a generic blue screen message about running into a hardware error and something about the system stopping to prevent damage.

Not a message about a driver crash or something corrupted.

I figured out the springs were the problem when I went to stock speed with the waterblock and it gave the same message but worked fine with the original stock cooler that was barely good enough for stock speed. The L5639 did the same thing when I got it. I didn't much troubleshooting, I just assumed the 920 was dead cause it was like 5 years old and OC'd/overvolted the entire time.

 

[wtwhizz]

The CPU didn't actually die, it would just go to a thermal shutdown once windows tried to load with a generic blue screen message about running into a hardware error and something about the system stopping to prevent damage.

Not a message about a driver crash or something corrupted.

I figured out the springs were the problem when I went to stock speed with the waterblock and it gave the same message but worked fine with the original stock cooler that was barely good enough for stock speed. The L5639 did the same thing when I got it. I didn't much troubleshooting, I just assumed the 920 was dead cause it was like 5 years old and OC'd/overvolted the entire time.

I'm wondering if I've been having the same problem.

My system will just randomly hang. I can be doing just about anything from web surfing, to watching a video, to playing a game and all of a sudden it will just freeze. No blue screen. No error messages. Just stuck. Sometimes I can boot back in, but often times it won't even post after that.

Only way I've been able to fix it and keep my system going is to take the heatsink off, reapply the thermal paste, and then put the heatsink back on. Starts up every time after I do that.

 

[Homeles]

Topic says it all -- for those of you lucky ones picking up Haswell-E, what platform are you upgrading from?

I'm obviously not your target audience, but I think you'd be interested to hear why I'm not upgrading.

I'm currently using an i5 750. I need to upgrade this rig because I'm seeking to upgrade to SATA3, as my 850 Pro is noticeably held back by the SATA2 ports on my board. CPU performance is fairly good, however I would probably enjoy gaming much more with an up to date CPU.

Lack of money aside, there's a few reasons why Haswell-E is unappealing to me right now. Primarily, it's the cost. Even if I were fairly wealthy, I would be more interested in the 4690K/4790K. RAM is unfortunately very expensive relative to where things were a year ago, and DDR4 worsens the issue (although DDR4 doesn't look too unreasonable). However, I can't justify doling out $100 or whatever for something that will give me next to no benefit.

The higher frequency of the Devil's Canyon processors are also of more use to me, as I simply don't have the workloads that would benefit from more cores at the moment.

I don't need the PCI-e lanes and the ports the E platform offers.

I do see myself being able to leverage an E-series platform in the future, but at the moment, it's just not of any use. I'll be looking into Broadwell-E and Skylake-E, for sure, but Haswell-E just doesn't offer enough benefit for me right now. I have other things I need to prioritize, like multiple monitors, and a better GPU.

 

[groovieknave]

i7-920 stock at launch on a p6t deluxe all the way to 9/6/14... Now 5820k at 4.1ghz huge difference!

 

[YSK]

From i5 2500K in 2011

Now using i7 5820K + MSI X99 Gaming 7 + Corsair LPX 16GB DDR4-2666