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Keep in mind the cost includes the cost of the waterblocks for the GPU and board.

Still not worth it.

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My current rig has and is serving me well.

I have an ASUS Sabertooth board and an FX-8350 OC'ed to 4.9gHz, 2 7950's and fully watercooled loop (CPU, GPU's, Chipset and Mosfets)

I have been toying with the idea of switching to Haswell

The rig I have been looking into building is:

i5 4670K

ASUS Z-87 PRO

ASUS Direct CUII GTX 770

 

Total cost for the switch is around £750 so is it worth switching or should I just stick with my AMD rig?

And please no 'Which is Better' debates I just need a simple and straight yes or no answer and some info to prove it if needed.

 

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No!

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No, not worth it. A jump from sandy to haswell isnt worth it and neither is a 8350 to haswell.

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Only reason you should go for Haswell is if your CPU is several generations older and you're building a new rig from scratch. The cost isn't worth the yearly upgrade.

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dont do it...also why go from two 7950's to 770?

 

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Don't switch altho you are suffering from poor FX performance in games and you are severly bottlenecking those 7950 in crossfire.

 

But i dont think it's worth it to switch now. Wait for Intel's Skylake at least (2015)...

 

 

Or gather money and make a jump to Haswell Extreme eight-core sixteen threads processor in 2014 (or so) - it should cost around 600$ for processor and 300$ for motherboard and some additional money for DDR4 RAM. xD

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No real reason I just thought it was time for a change I have to money to do it so and if I find that it wasn't worth it I can use the parts in a build for someone else and recoupe my money (sounds bad but some people jump at the chance for a deal haha)

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even viruz_hun understands that this is stupid

Either that or he just jumps on the bandwagon with everyone else to get an extra post. Let's keep it real though, the actual question here is: are xeon CPUs good for gaming?

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I couldn't justify myself wasting money on an extreme edition CPU because I wouldn't realistically gain anything from it as a lot of the games I play don't tax my FX-8350 and I am playing games like Battlefield and Crysis 3 maxed out with no problems.

The only reason I started this thread was to see whether or not it would be worth switching to Haswell with a GTX770.

I only use my PC for gaming nothing else bar the odd film so no point in the 'Extreme' edition CPU's

 

Don't switch altho you are suffering from poor FX performance in games and you are severly bottlenecking those 7950 in crossfire.

 

But i dont think it's worth it to switch now. Wait for Intel's Skylake at least (2015)...

 

 

Or gather money and make a jump to Haswell Extreme eight-core sixteen threads processor in 2014 (or so) - it should cost around 600$ for processor and 300$ for motherboard and some additional money for DDR4 RAM. xD

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Yes stick with it your perfectly fine. The next big jump in performance and technology you should be watching out for is haswell-e.

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My current rig has and is serving me well.

I have an ASUS Sabertooth board and an FX-8350 OC'ed to 4.9gHz, 2 7950's and fully watercooled loop (CPU, GPU's, Chipset and Mosfets)

I have been toying with the idea of switching to Haswell

The rig I have been looking into building is:

i5 4670K

ASUS Z-87 PRO

ASUS Direct CUII GTX 770

 

Total cost for the switch is around £750 so is it worth switching or should I just stick with my AMD rig?

And please no 'Which is Better' debates I just need a simple and straight yes or no answer and some info to prove it if needed.

 

Cheers Guys.

one word if you switch, FANBOY.

That's the only reason someone would waste cash on a switch like this.

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Definitely not an Intel fan boy man I have never owned a desktop that has had an Intel CPU in it ever since I knew anything about computers. I have built PC's with Intel CPU's and OC'ed them but never owned one.

So I think after the responses I have gotten from this thread am going to stick with my AMD rig and just get a new motherboard probably an ROG board and then get one of the new HD9000 series GPU's.

Thanks to everyone who has posted :)

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