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Upgrade from i7 920 to Haswell or wait for Broadwell?

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Yea I would say you probably will experience bottlenecking to some extent. I would either wait for the new processor line or upgrade to haswell and then wait a while before upgrading.

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I have an i7 920 clocked @ 3.8GHz and a GTX 560 Ti on 1080p and I'm  wondering if I should upgrade to Haswell/700 series, or wait until Broadwell/Maxwell. If I should upgrade to say, a 780, could that be bottle necked by my CPU? I also have a pair of 8GB 1600 DDR3 modules right next to me that I got on sale, and I am thinking of returning it before June 9th. Will DDR3 work on Broadwell, do you think I should keep the RAM? I'm debating whether or not I should upgrade with all the fuss about Haswell being a flop. OR Should I just keep my current build and wait until Broadwell/Maxwell?
 
i7 920 @ 3.8GHz
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it would probably bottelneck but you cant probably keep your current cpu until next gen if you dont want to spend the money now

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The memory will work @ 1600MHZ even when cpu is overclocked. Any near future video card will not be bottlenecked by 4770K and even 4670K. And I mean post HD 9000. 

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Yea I would say you probably will experience bottlenecking to some extent. I would either wait for the new processor line or upgrade to haswell and then wait a while before upgrading.

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The memory will work @ 1600MHZ even when cpu is overclocked. Any near future video card will not be bottlenecked by 4770K and even 4670K. And I mean post HD 9000. 

I meant, will the DDR3 memory work on Broadwell? Or is that not known yet? I'm just wondering if I should keep the memory or return it today.

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I meant, will the DDR3 memory work on Broadwell? Or is that not known yet? I'm just wondering if I should keep the memory or return it today.

Nobody knows. I hope it won't work on Broadwell! :D

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Yea I would say you probably will experience bottlenecking to some extent. I would either wait for the new processor line or upgrade to haswell and then wait a while before upgrading.

I think I might wait, and suffer with all these new games coming out. All I've heard about Haswell was that it ain't too great of a tock/upgrade, but this memory I bought about a month ago is holding me back. I just don't want to make a bad choice in returning an awesome deal of 16GB for $80.
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Yea, I'm feeling the same way towards haswell. i have a sandy bridge 2500k. I'll probably wait till broadwell or skylake honestly. More likely when DDR4 comes out. I feel like with the processors out now they are lasting a lot longer then the past.

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Yea, I'm feeling the same way towards haswell. i have a sandy bridge 2500k. I'll probably wait till broadwell or skylake honestly. More likely when DDR4 comes out. I feel like with the processors out now they are lasting a lot longer then the past.

Same, I have no urge to upgrade from my 2700K, it can run any game I want and I can always overclock if I need more power. 

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well getting a 780 cant be too bad of an idea, im sure the bottleneck isnt that much..... and then wait for a platform upgrade when u can

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Yea, I'm feeling the same way towards haswell. i have a sandy bridge 2500k. I'll probably wait till broadwell or skylake honestly. More likely when DDR4 comes out. I feel like with the processors out now they are lasting a lot longer then the past.

 

I reckon I'm going to wait to skylake, happy enough with my 2500k and still have a bit of overclocking headroom.

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