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I am upgrading my PC and at the moment I have a 980x Extreme Edition CPU but I am unsure whether to go for the Ivy Bridge-E or the new Haswell. I know the new Haswell-E will be coming out this year but it will be crazy expensive. I currrently do video editing, web development/design and gaming. If I am honest I do more gaming than video editing but I do want to overclock my new system. I just wondered what people's thoughts were on this?

 

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If you have a 980x, stay with it. Haswell-E will be around the same pricing as current Ivy-E.

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Haswell is pretty much better in every way. 

Are you not satisfied with your current performance? If so, 

 

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If not, why upgrade?

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My CPU does perform really good however my mother is the problem at the moment so I thought to replace the board, but due to my CPU being a Gulftown I thought not many new motherboards will support it. Then again I wasn't sure whether to also go with the standard haswell i7, but i might miss the performance when i do, do some video editing.

 

Thanks to everyone for commenting.

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What motherboard problems are you having?

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Wait for haswell-e. Im doing the same. Ive got an i7 950 atm.

Haswell e wont be crazy expensive i think, according to the leaked info there will be 1 six core and 2 8core processors. So u could still get the cheapest haswell-e and have 6 cores.

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my current motherboard is the Rampage III extreme but I am wanting to set up raid 0 and for two other drives raid 1 but my board basically tells me no and to think again haha. plus with the new graphics cards that i want to replace mine with (screens keep flicking and perform has gone down) I don't think it will support them. They are the gtx 780ti. 

 

The haswell-e does look nice. Do you think it will be good for gaming as well? I am both a gamer and video editor so need a CPU that can do a good job with both. Thats the problem Ive had with deciding between the haswell 4770 and ivy bridge-e. 

 

Thanks for all your comments guys =)

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Please don't upgrade yet, you won't notice a difference. I upgraded from i7 950 to 4930k and the difference in gaming just isn't there. Wait for ddr4 then upgrade. You'll be glad you did. Your motherboard will support any graphic card out there. Just buy a nice raid card.

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Yer I was looking into DDR4 it looks amazing RAM to come. Oh I wonder if you guys can settle a debate I have. Some one I was taking to said the Haswell-E will only be good for DDR4 but I said it gives support so you should be able to run both DDR3 and DDR4. What do you guys think, am I completely wrong? 

 

Thanks Itguy for the advice is good to have other people's advice on their own experience. 

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Yer I was looking into DDR4 it looks amazing RAM to come. Oh I wonder if you guys can settle a debate I have. Some one I was taking to said the Haswell-E will only be good for DDR4 but I said it gives support so you should be able to run both DDR3 and DDR4. What do you guys think, am I completely wrong? 

 

Thanks Itguy for the advice is good to have other people's advice on their own experience.

I would imagine that it will be able to run DDR3, but that is 100% guess. I havent done any research whatsoever on x99 Motherboards, so I don't know if they will be supported or not. 

 

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Yer I was looking into DDR4 it looks amazing RAM to come. Oh I wonder if you guys can settle a debate I have. Some one I was taking to said the Haswell-E will only be good for DDR4 but I said it gives support so you should be able to run both DDR3 and DDR4. What do you guys think, am I completely wrong? 

 

Thanks Itguy for the advice is good to have other people's advice on their own experience. 

 

 

I would imagine that it will be able to run DDR3, but that is 100% guess. I havent done any research whatsoever on x99 Motherboards, so I don't know if they will be supported or not. 

 

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I thought I read somewhere that DDR4 will use a new connector and pin-out, if that is the case, backward compatibility with DDR3 is unlikely. 

 

I could be off though, all speculation at this point.

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Yea I think DDR4 will have a different pin layout as Real_Phillbert mentioned. Either way, if you were to upgrade now, then you'd be stuck with a DDR3 motherboard, that won't give you the ability to upgrade to any future processors since this socket won't be used anymore, i think you could compare it to the 1366 socket motherboard which you have right now. I think it would still be beneficial to wait for the new motherboards that support DDR4, the price of DDR4 will be huge at the beginning but at least you have the ability to upgrade your RAM in the future if you desire to do so. And if intel continues their "socket-trend" then they'll probably bring 2 generations of processors to the 2011-3 socket motherboard, Haswell-E and maybe Broadwell. But that's just me guessing :)

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Haswell-E... 8 core 16 threads and DDR4...

 

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Haswell is pretty much better in every way. 

Are you not satisfied with your current performance? If so, 

 

THAT THING^

 

If not, why upgrade?

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