Haswell

[JayJay345]

GUys Is it worth building a Haswell these days? .. is it Future Proof?

[Aytex]

Future proof? Nope, its got a dead upgrade path

Is it worth it? Yea you can find great deals on has well processors. 

[Mi26]

It's only worth when there's a good deal for it n considering that skylake performance only improved by 5-10% 

[zMeul]

what Haswell? there are couple of them 

 

the LGA 1150 ones and the LGA 2011-3 ones

 

• Haswell http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/42174/Haswell#@Desktop
• Haswell refresh - known as Devil's Canyon http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/81246/Devils-Canyon
• Haswell-E http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/79427/Haswell-E

[FakeNSA]

3 minutes ago, zMeul said:

what Haswell? there are couple of them 

 

the LGA 1150 ones and the LGA 2011-3 ones

I thought the LGA 2011-3 was refered to as Haswell-E? Or is that just a convenience thing.

[zMeul]

3 minutes ago, Aelar_Nailo said:

I thought the LGA 2011-3 was refered to as Haswell-E? Or is that just a convenience thing.

still Haswell, just a different kind of

just like Devil's Canyon

[SLAYR]

6 minutes ago, Aelar_Nailo said:

I thought the LGA 2011-3 was refered to as Haswell-E? Or is that just a convenience thing.

It is the same architecture, just based on lga 2011-3

 

30 minutes ago, JayJay345 said:

GUys Is it worth building a Haswell these days? .. is it Future Proof?

No, not with new parts, ddr4 is usually usually cheaper then ddr3 now, and skylake is priced the same as haswell, and nothing is "future proof."

[Paytend01]

10 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

and nothing is "future proof."

I mean.... 6800k with afew titans would last awhile  And omg another person from Illinois lol

[Princess Luna]

27 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

It is the same architecture, just based on lga 2011-3

 

No, not with new parts, ddr4 is usually usually cheaper then ddr3 now, and skylake is priced the same as haswell, and nothing is "future proof."

It depends a lot on "how long future proof" you're going for, build a PC to last 2 years is something, to last 5 years is a total other something. I personally would go with Skylake because it already supports DDR4 RAM, buying DDR3 memory sticks nowadays already feel the complete opposite of "future proof".

[JayJay345]

im going for G3260 .. budget build