Should I wait for Broadwell?

[kennnnnpohhhhh]

Says it all in the tittle. Im planning to get a new build up. Should I wait for Broadwell or just use Haswell?

[NohbdyKnows]

Are you gaming? or what?

[kennnnnpohhhhh]

Mostly gaming

[chicksoup]

if you don't need to upgrade don't and either get a current gen chip for a good price or buy a brand new one...we a sortof between a cycle, but once you start waiting and this or that is announced you are told to wait for AMD's new chips, but intel is the way to go 

[ultimatemythbuster]

Says it all in the tittle. Im planning to get a new build up. Should I wait for Broadwell or just use Haswell?

Haswell isn't really much of an improvement over Ivy Bridge for gaming, so I would wait.

[chicksoup]

what do you plan on playing what are your current specs?

[lufihengr]

It will probably be like a 5-10% performance increase and better power consumption and DDR4, are these important to you? You need to consider also do you need the new build now or will you be able to wait. I say wait, and if you don't like Broadwell, the Haswell platform will drop in price.

[kennnnnpohhhhh]

Im kinda a Nvidia fanboy, so no AMD for me:D

[ultimatemythbuster]

if you don't need to upgrade don't and either get a current gen card for a good price or buy a brand new one...we a sortof between a cycle, but once you start waiting and this or that is announced you are told to wait for AMD's new cards

OP was talking specifically about CPUs.

[kennnnnpohhhhh]

LOL

[KaareKanin]

Isn't Broadwell supposed to be BGA? Meaning no sockets, but CPUs soldered right at the MoBo? 

[chicksoup]

OP was talking specifically about CPUs.

it realized that now,but what I said makes sense in both contexts

[kennnnnpohhhhh]

Thanks for the advice people!! Appreciate it:D

[kennnnnpohhhhh]

it realized that now,but what I said makes sense in both contexts

Well, i get what you are saying

[ultimatemythbuster]

Isn't Broadwell supposed to be BGA? Meaning no sockets, but CPUs soldered right at the MoBo? 

I don't know how I fell about that.  But I guess that's progress, in Intel's view at least.

[chicksoup]

Thanks for the advice people!! Appreciate it:D

one extra tip from me would be not to build a gaming pc during the school times, because it WILL distract you

[kennnnnpohhhhh]

Guess i will just wait for the release of broadwell

[kennnnnpohhhhh]

one extra tip from me would be not to build a gaming pc during the school times, because it WILL distract you

Much needed tip

[KaareKanin]

I don't know how I fell about that.  But I guess that's progress, in Intel's view at least.

 

If Broadwell only brings marginal performance improvements, the move to BGA from LGA might be enough to keep me away

[Godlygamer23]

Broadwell is supposed to be socketed.

[Stonep11]

Says it all in the tittle. Im planning to get a new build up. Should I wait for Broadwell or just use Haswell?

The big draw for Broadwell to me is the DDR4 support BECAUSE (I know you are only asking about CPUs), but the Maxwell Series from Nvidia is focusing on Unified Memory, if that taps into RAM then I would want the best RAM I could get.  This is talking for high, high end gaming though so if you don't care about that, then just get whatever i5 or i7 is cheapest (as long as you have a dedicated GPU already)

[Crowcore]

In the context of Broadwell: Does lower power consumption or lower TDP mean the CPU will run cooler (non-OC) ?

[Eroda]

if you don't need to upgrade don't and either get a current gen chip for a good price or buy a brand new one...we a sortof between a cycle, but once you start waiting and this or that is announced you are told to wait for AMD's new chips, but intel is the way to go 

 

AMD's annoucement on what their new chips is nov 10 its not that far away

[DrainDoc]

Guess i will just wait for the release of broadwell

Q4 2014

[kennnnnpohhhhh]

Q4 2014

Oh then just Haswell