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Haswell Pricing

Same situation for me Q9550 is still going strong, but my urge to upgrade was so high I had a near miss because I bought a Q3820 system. Luckily a friend is buying the parts from me.

Haswell will change things for sure, my OC isn't holding up and stability has been an issue. One way or another ill be upgrading this year, only thing is I hate to pay for integrated GPU that I'm not going to use - even if it is cheaper.
 
c3k said:
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Yeah, my q6600 is going to be put down at the same time. :)

I am not totally sold on Haswell, though. The 4770K vs. 4770 debate is still open, for me. I don't know if I'll gain enough of an overclock to make the cost worthwhile. Plus, the 'K' versions of the SB/IB have a few processes nerfed. (Sorry, I forget which low-level things they are, or even if I'd notice them!)

Games, some bluray ripping to my home server, and that's about it. (Nothing else even remotely approaching enough of a load to force an upgrade from a 3.2ghz q6600.)

Gotta see what they got when they release them...

Ken
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"K" models have vt-d and tsx removed. Probably wouldn't notice them.

Relativist said:
Same situation for me Q9550 is still going strong, but my urge to upgrade was so high I had a near miss because I bought a Q3820 system. Luckily a friend is buying the parts from me.

Haswell will change things for sure, my OC isn't holding up and stability has been an issue. One way or another ill be upgrading this year, only thing is I hate to pay for integrated GPU that I'm not going to use - even if it is cheaper.
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I'll be upgrading from a Q9550 as well. Which model Haswell remains to be seen though. Depends on availability, when Microcenter starts their deals, and if I can get friends or family to buy for me since I don't live near one.
 
Thing about Q9550 is it has SSE 4 which the Q6600 didn't, giving it more life for gaming. But time is no friend to heavy overclocking, it's time to retire this PC to something else, like dedicated computing.
 
Also have a q9550 and I am itching to build a new system. If I get Haswell, will I be able to upgrade once more with the same mobo/socket? Confused a bit from my short research, some say yes some say no.
 
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Depends primarily if Broadwell will absolutely require DDR4 or not I think, or if it will come with the option of running DDR3/4.
 
yeah i think im finally going to upgrade :) i should see some big improvements over this x2 6400 :)
 
Nauseous said:
yeah i think im finally going to upgrade :) i should see some big improvements over this x2 6400 :)
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Exactly what I was running before my 3770K. The 6400+ was one hell of a great processor, but damn what a bottleneck to my 570. You will be amazed at the difference. :)
 
When should we expect a robust product information release? I've been hearing mid-April. Currently trying to hold out until then, but really dependent on pricing. If a 3570k equivalent + board is going to be super expensive, I'll probably just order a 3570k and a mid range Z77 and ride it out since performance gains aren't going to be anything too crazy (or so we shall see).
 
kidstechno said:
When should we expect a robust product information release? I've been hearing mid-April. Currently trying to hold out until then, but really dependent on pricing. If a 3570k equivalent + board is going to be super expensive, I'll probably just order a 3570k and a mid range Z77 and ride it out since performance gains aren't going to be anything too crazy (or so we shall see).
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The pricing will fall right in line with how everything was priced when IB was released last year.

i5K = $240-275
i7K = $340-375

Z87 MoBo's = $130+
 
kidstechno said:
When should we expect a robust product information release? I've been hearing mid-April. Currently trying to hold out until then, but really dependent on pricing. If a 3570k equivalent + board is going to be super expensive, I'll probably just order a 3570k and a mid range Z77 and ride it out since performance gains aren't going to be anything too crazy (or so we shall see).
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When? Hopefully in 6 days when IDF starts on the 10th.
 
As things shape up for Haswell, I'm starting to lean towards a 3770K system instead. Based on early previews (Tomshardware) and speculation, Haswell will only be 10-15% faster and most of the improvements will be on the iGPU side of things. The only thing that I like about Haswell is that it will natively support SATA 6.0 on all the ports (excluding the Marvell ones).

BUT, when you start to look at the prices of everything that will come out, it's starting to look pretty expensive (Intel, go figure). So my thinking is that when Haswell is finally out and on the market, the prices of the 3770K will be lower and everything related to them will be lower, whether it's at Microcenter or here on the forums. So most likely I'll be saving a ton of money and only losing that 10-15%.

IF Haswell can run comfortably at 5.0ghz overclock 24/7, then I'd have to rethink everything, but this is my current plan moving forward :)
 
Give me that damn 4770K, GIMME. This main PC need to move off Nehalem, I'm frequently using my Ivy i5 lounge room machine more out of low CPU load but fast execution time envy (e.g. SLI management ;) ).
 
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