Keep my current oc'd 3770k or jump to 4770k?

[Beavermatic]

Kind of interested in the new Haswell... But not sure if it's offering a greater performance than my current IB i7 3770k...

My current specs...

I7 3770k @ 4.5ghz on h100 cooler
Intel dz77ga70k extreme board
(2) EVGA GTX titans in sli
32gb corsair ddr3 vengeance ram
Os partition on a Samsung 830 ssd
Couple different terabyte drives for data and games
PC power & cooling 1000w psu

I can't seem to find any retail water coolers for the new 1150 socket Haswell for over clocking.. And I hear it's not too great for ocing anyway. Also not sure if I should wait to see if any 6 core or 8 cores come out. I've done too many quad core upgrades since the original q series core 2s.

Would it be worth the upgrade? Or should I just wait in hopes of one with more cores.. I primarily do gaming and 3d modeling in zbrush.

 

[Face2Face]

It's going to be a lot of money for a little gain in performance. I would wait....

I believe gaming wise a 3770K @ 4.5Ghz would equal a 4770K @ 4.2Ghz-4.3Ghz

 

[Beavermatic]

I believe gaming wise a 3770K @ 4.5Ghz would equal a 4770K @ 4.2Ghz-4.3Ghz

Hmmm that's pretty negligible upgrade... If even noticeable. Heard alot of hype on the Haswell.. Is the performance difference that minimal?

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

It's pretty safe to assume an average IPC increase of 8% over IVB.
As far as clocks, this is what I've gotten so far :

All chips from Microcenter with the same batch # (L307B239, which is all they seem to have).
All the chips below were OCed with Speedstep disabled, fixed / non-adaptive Vcore, automatic/default voltages (except Vcore), DDR3 1866, 3.9GHz uncore and 100 - 101MHz BCLK.
Voltages reported are values under IBT load. No memtest86+ errors. Considered stable if it makes it through 100 passes of IBT (will follow up with 24 hour Prime95 runs later).

Chip 1 : 4.55GHz 1.24V (CPU-Z), 1.247V (measured)
Chip 2 : 4.55GHz 1.241V (CPU-Z), 1.249V (measured)
Chip 3 : 4.6GHz 1.25V (CPU-Z), 1.256V (measured)
Chip 4 : 4.35GHz 1.242V (CPU-Z), 1.253V (measured)

 

[Gikaseixas]

i'd keep that 3770k for a bit more. Wait until Intel releases a newer step (might clock higher with less voltage)

 

[Kenmitch]

It's pretty safe to assume an average IPC increase of 8% over IVB.
As far as clocks, this is what I've gotten so far :

All chips from Microcenter with the same batch # (L307B239, which is all they seem to have).
All the chips below were OCed with Speedstep disabled, fixed / non-adaptive Vcore, automatic/default voltages (except Vcore), DDR3 1866, 3.9GHz uncore and 100 - 101MHz BCLK.
Voltages reported are values under IBT load. No memtest86+ errors. Considered stable if it makes it through 100 passes of IBT (will follow up with 24 hour Prime95 runs later).

Chip 1 : 4.55GHz 1.24V (CPU-Z), 1.247V (measured)
Chip 2 : 4.55GHz 1.241V (CPU-Z), 1.249V (measured)
Chip 3 : 4.6GHz 1.25V (CPU-Z), 1.256V (measured)
Chip 4 : 4.35GHz 1.242V (CPU-Z), 1.253V (measured)

Do they get smokey hot just like the IB's?

 

[LagunaX]

They get hotter.
No point upgrading unless you do a lot of video encoding - that's where the main gain is at.
You could overclock your current chip a little more if you delid it.

 

[Beavermatic]

Nah... Just zbrush and some games. Think I'll just stick with my ivy bridge until maybe a later stepping or broadwell.

I've been googling away and it has no gain in desktop stuff when running and against oc'd some sandy and ivy bridges... Looks like gain in mobile power consumption and that's about it.

Makes me wonder why they even bothered with the release.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Do they get smokey hot just like the IB's?

Oh yeah. Antec 920 + IC Diamond => 83-86C under IBT.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

How many FLOPS are you pulling at 4.5?

 

[xeledon20005]

seems like im sticking with my 3770k as well, really haven't had a problem with it so no reason to upgrade seeing i would need a new mother board.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

That's a negligible 'upgrade'