[diy.pconline.com.cn] Intel Core i5 4670k first test

[samuel]

So yeah, fx 8320 and 7950 still beasts for the price. Waiting for some price cutdown! :D

[KingPC]

Then it will be an even greater performance increase. Congrats on having a Core 2 duo! I have some P4's in some machines still.Well i was goign to wait until haswel

Yeah i knew i was going to upgrade to Haswell regardless of the performance increase. I'll take a free 10% increased performance any day!

[Fonil]

Going from lynnfield to haswell anyone have relative perfomrance numbers, dont understand why this is so hard to track. 

[silencerbob]

Indeed.. I'm very keen for a haswell i7-4770k in a month or 2.

[TechFan@ic]

Actually, Haswell will be a welcome upgrade for me from Bloomfield, as well as the move from 1366 and X58 to 1150 and Z87. I haven't wasted any time waiting. Your snide remarks aren't appreciated. I suggest actually contributing something to the conversation instead of trolling and upping your post count. If anyone has been paying attention to anything over the past four or five months they would know to not expect a significant raw performance gain from Ivy Bridge to Haswell. 

No need to be aggressive, it was obviously a light-hearted joke.

 

i still have a core 2 duo..

Me too !

[MasterJV]

AMD still holds it grounds in a couple of benchmarks, quite impressive.

[Facety]

If this is true when its officially released then the ~10% bump was as I expected, its the power consumption what impresses me the most though.

Personally I'm waiting on the Z87 mobo's for their new features or else I would've just grabbed Z77 from now.

[MichalCZE97]

If this is true when its officially released then the ~10% bump was as I expected, its the power consumption what impresses me the most though.

Personally I'm waiting on the Z87 mobo's for their new features or else I would've just grabbed Z77 from now.

Z87 board will have more SATA III 6Gb/s ports at least. That's a nice improvement. Although I don't know who would use so many drives and why, but it's still nice.

[Facety]

Z87 board will have more SATA III 6Gb/s ports at least. That's a nice improvement. Although I don't know who would use so many drives and why, but it's still nice.

 

I'm planning on running 4 500GB SSDs in RAID soon so those extra ports would be great

[CobaltMK33]

I'm planning on running 4 500GB SSDs in RAID soon so those extra ports would be great

Humor me, what do you need 2 terabytes of close to 2 GB/s (assuming you go 0) for? This is a serious question.

[Facety]

Humor me, what do you need 2 terabytes of close to 2 GB/s (assuming you go 0) for? This is a serious question.

 

For studying, I need a power house not only for gaming and recording but able to handle all the Virtual Machines and simulations I want.

[Scia]

Was kinda predictable that this was going to happen. Yaaaay new socket, same old CPU, and said to be hard to overclock since the VRM is integrated.

[ixi_your_face]

Yeah just thought I'd bring some humor here!

 

On a more serious note, it looks like our speculations are true and Haswell only brings about a 10% performance increase, obviously not worth the upgrade unless you are still using the first generation i3/i5/i7 CPUs.

First gen i7 user reporting in :(

[Broseephus]

It doesn't matter what he means or what you think he means, it matters what he said. Saying that Haswell doesn't offer a significant performance increase over Ivy Bridge is a completely fair and true statement. That is not what he said and what he said is not true or fair. 

 

What I was trying to imply was that people who were waiting for Haswell to upgrade instead of upgrading to IVY wasted a lot of time waiting for a product that isn't really overly superior. When I upgraded from phenom ii 955 to Ivy last summer there were people telling me I should save my money and wait for Haswell. Looking back I'd much rather have had Ivy for the past year than get what minimal performance/energy boost Haswell is giving over Ivy.

 

 

Why does everyone on this forum take everything as a personal attack? Life's a lot more enjoyable if you don't go around the internet getting your jimmies rustled all the time.