Ivy Bridge E v.s. Haswell-DT

[Arachnotronic]

Are you upgrading your PC this coming refresh cycle? If so, which of these two are you going to go with? IVB-E or Haswell-DT?

 

[Phynaz]

No upgrade for me yet.

 

[Arachnotronic]

What're you running, Phynaz?

 

[tweakboy]

Heck ya, Im gonna buy the 550 dollar 6 core one.

Its a slap on upgrade,, easy does it.... and call it a life.

 

[cytg111]

haswell with (likely) higher clocks and OC potential .. throw in TSX and those 4 cores may well perform as 5 ... throw in the modest IPC increase, throw in AVX2 .. I think it will be a nobrainer, outside of 24/7 video work i believe haswell will have it beat.

 

[Arachnotronic]

For me, I'm thinking Ivy Bridge E...if it overclocks well, anyway.

 

[frozentundra123456]

For me, I'm thinking Ivy Bridge E...if it overclocks well, anyway.

Why do you think Ivy E will be a good overclocker when the normal chip was not as easy to OC as Sandy. Do you think they will change the TIM, or whatever it is?

 

[frozentundra123456]

haswell with (likely) higher clocks and OC potential .. throw in TSX and those 4 cores may well perform as 5 ... throw in the modest IPC increase, throw in AVX2 .. I think it will be a nobrainer, outside of 24/7 video work i believe haswell will have it beat.

Arent the clocks for Haswell known to be very close to Ivy? Overclocking could be a different story, who knows.

Edit: to answer the poll-- none of them. I will just keep what I have, an i5 SB. Good enough for me.

 

[Charles Kozierok]

I'm on a now-4.5-year-old Nehalem chip and was going to build a Haswell box this year, but I'm not seeing much so far that would justify the expense. IB-E doesn't really tempt me so far either.

 

[Tuna-Fish]

haswell with (likely) higher clocks and OC potential .. throw in TSX and those 4 cores may well perform as 5 ... throw in the modest IPC increase, throw in AVX2 .. I think it will be a nobrainer, outside of 24/7 video work i believe haswell will have it beat.

Based on the model specs released so far, with HSW you can have OC or TSX. The k models ship with TSX disabled.

Also, while I'm really hyped about TSX, do realize that it typically takes years for new instruction sets to gain any real use. TSX is even tougher than that, because it requires changes to programming models instead of just recompilation. TSX should only be of interest to programmers and server admins for now.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

haswell with (likely) higher clocks and OC potential .. throw in TSX and those 4 cores may well perform as 5 ... throw in the modest IPC increase, throw in AVX2 .. I think it will be a nobrainer, outside of 24/7 video work i believe haswell will have it beat.

Unfortunately, IINM, no TSX on the K models. :|

 

[blackened23]

Hexa core is still worthless in most applications. Since Haswell will have a 10-15% single threaded performance advantage over IVB-E with better overclocking, i'll likely go haswell.

 

[podspi]

I didn't vote, but probably Haswell. I'll still wait for the release instead of pre-ordering though. No reason to pre-order, I live near a Microcenter

I'm still hoping AMD performs a miracle with Steamroller, but I'm adopting a believe it when I see it attitude to that.

 

[james1701]

I'm on the fence. I will keep rocking the 980X unless Haswell pulls a rabbit out of the hat and shows me something interesting.

 

[moonbogg]

I voted Ivy-E since I already got X79, but if Haswell OCs really well and would be a good gamer, then i'll actually go that route. If they both put me to sleep, then i'll keep what I got. Its not like i'm suffering.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

After BD/IB I hope we don't have anyone hyping Haswell pre-release :hmm:

It's either Haswell for me or used 1155.

 

[Phynaz]

what're you running, phynaz?

i7 870 is my primary desktop.
Kid has a 3570K.

The rest of our machines are all laptops. I could actually call my laptop my main machine.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I'm on the fence. I will keep rocking the 980X unless Haswell pulls a rabbit out of the hat and shows me something interesting.

I'm really glad that I snagged that 990X for cheap on CL. Flipped it on eBay and will put the profits towards either a SB-E/IVB-E or HW-DT setup

 

[CHADBOGA]

As I have a i5 3570 overclocked to 4.0Ghz, I will skip the Haswell Generation and see what Skylake brings. :awe:

 

[lakedude]

I know the microarchitecture changes tend to yield bigger jumps in performance but I'm a fan of the die shrink. For some reason the process change just gets me all excited, especially this last one when they went to the 3D "FinFet".

The i7-3770s is more than good enough to last me at least until Broadwell or Skylake.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Haswell-DT for me. IB goes to my better half. family member takes the old i7 860 for free, and last non MiniITX is out of the home

 

[Borealis7]

Haswell-DT. come June it's "Intel, shut up and take my money!" time.

I got me an inside man on the Haswell dealio. strangely though, the people working on the chip itself don't get it for free on release, but rather a year later or something like that.

anyway he says they are going to be a gem for overclockers, which i hope translates to "no more TIM under the hood".

 

[roror]

I'm on an E8500 with gtx 260. It still runs fine. I've got the upgrade itch bad but I've held off. I've never bought any cpu at release so I'm hoping there won't be any major problems besides the sleep bug.

 

[loccothan]

SteamRoller 12 or 16 cores ! on 1100FX chipset for ME !!!!!

 

[cytg111]

Based on the model specs released so far, with HSW you can have OC or TSX. The k models ship with TSX disabled.

Also, while I'm really hyped about TSX, do realize that it typically takes years for new instruction sets to gain any real use. TSX is even tougher than that, because it requires changes to programming models instead of just recompilation. TSX should only be of interest to programmers and server admins for now.

Argh .. forgot that, no TSX for the K models .. sucks.
I would like to play around with TSX though .. And I imaginge those niche products that really do scale well with core count will be the first to get support(tsx/avx2).