Is it Worth upgrading to Ivy Bridge or wait for Haswell??

[KAZANI]

seriously who cares about their power consumption on a PC ? its like 5-20 dollars more which is friggin CANDY MONEY!

Seriously, you don't have a clue what you're talking about. With an always-on machine (especially an undervolted one) electricity bill reductions amount to considerably more than "candy money". Moreover, benefits extent to fewer air conditioning requirements and lower noise levels.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Seriously, you don't have a clue what you're talking about. With an always-on machine (especially an undervolted one) electricity bill reductions amount to considerably more than "candy money". Moreover, benefits extent to fewer air conditioning requirements and lower noise levels.

I dunno how much you pay in Greece but it's only a few dollars savings per month if I shut my PC down every night or leave it on running seti@home. I tested it.

For me I leave it on.

 

[ShintaiDK]

I dunno how much you pay in Greece but it's only a few dollars savings per month if I shut my PC down every night or leave it on running seti@home. I tested it.

For me I leave it on.

If I ran something like you do, CPU only and 24/7. Assume I didnt play games etc, just SETI. Then it would cost me around 30$ a month.

 

[malikq86]

if your pc is feeling sluggish upgrade now...haswell is basically 1 eyar away...

if not, just wait for when you really need the upgrade. haswell should be much better.

 

[pauldun170]

Haswell is one year + one delay + one rev 1.0 headache on mobos + one limited selection of mainstream boards away.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Haswell is one year + one delay + one rev 1.0 headache on mobos + one limited selection of mainstream boards away.

Just cause intel screwed half the original early adopters to 1155 with busted motherboards doesn't mean me or you will be bending over again anytime soon with a repeat incident,i doubt intel screws things up for sport or laughs as no one wants to fix your broken junk,especially intel in this case.

 

[Paul98]

Is your computer to slow to be able to do certain things you want? Does it just feel kind of slower than you would like?

If it's the first then I would most likely upgrade now, if that upgrade will allow you to do everything you want.

If it's just a little slower than you would like, I would check to see if there are any cheap upgrades like a CPU upgrade that could work on your current motherboard. Sell your old CPU and get the new one that should be able to keep you till haswell.

The other reason I would wait unless you can't do what you want is the graphics cards that just came out didn't give a huge performance boost that they could have. I would hope by the time or around when haswell comes out there is a good performance boost or a rather large price drop on what is out now.

 

[borisvodofsky]

Just cause intel screwed half the original early adopters to 1155 with busted motherboards doesn't mean me or you will be bending over again anytime soon with a repeat incident,i doubt intel screws things up for sport or laughs as no one wants to fix your broken junk,especially intel in this case.

wha?? why am I just hearing about this screw up just now. what happened?

.. I just got z68 month n half ago.

 

[BenchPress]

wha?? why am I just hearing about this screw up just now. what happened?

.. I just got z68 month n half ago.

The first generation P68 chips had SATA 3 support which in rare cases could start failing after a while. Z68 was launched later and was never affected.

 

[Kristijonas]

I'd wait for Haswell. And I do, with my sigs celeron :thumbsup:

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

a lot of times "slow" can be almost completely cured with an SSD.

I know my Macbook Pro from 2008 is far slower than my i7 930 @ 4ghz, but once I threw an SSD in there, you gain so much fluidity from basic tasks that loading Photoshop slower is not gonna really kill me that much.