Hello! I was wondering if anyone might know or be able to speculate if it might be worth waiting 6 months or more for the Haswell series? Or, should I just buy a 3370K? Well I'm at it, how far non de lidded on an H100 do you think I could get that 3770K? :Praying: :Confused:

Haswell will apparently be 10% faster per clock than Ivy Bridge.

Haswell will apparently be 10% faster per clock than Ivy Bridge.

 

Beyond clock-for-clock performance of 10% improvement there is some educated speculation Haswell will be more overclocking-friendly (as evidenced by enhanced access to specific overclocking controls) perhaps from an improvement in how the chip exchanges heat w/ its integrated heat spreader. If this is the case, then Haswell's 'net' improvement could be significantly more both relative to its cooling requirements and perhaps absolutely. All of this still of course remains to be validated. I guess if you are in dire need for an upgrade you may want to pick up IB. I am quite happy waiting for Haswell as I find FSX quite enjoyable/useable on my 4y/o hardware. I want to be duly wowed by my next upgrade, and I'm always puzzled when people pick up new machines and find they report performance not that different from mine. I will go to Haswell, water-cooling perhaps, a 512Gb SATA III SSD, etc. I'm just hoping my current rig makes it until Haswell debuts and is validated.

Well I'm at it, how far non de lidded on an H100 do you think I could get that 3770K?

 

I got about 4.9Ghz with my stock 3770K, a Corsair H100 and my P8Z77-V Deluxe.

Temps under Intel Burn Test @ the maximum were about 87*C, 100% stable.

Not bad, but I did knock her down to 4.7 for daily usage.

Now while flying the NGX in heavy areas e.g EGLL, with everything maxed out (except AI), I get a solid 25FPS. This is WITH GEX, UTX, REX, AS2012, and UK2000 Scenery.