April 30, 201313 yr Thanks. I'd read something similar to that too but it's all a bit unknown at the moment. I told myself I wouldn't upgrade until gtx880 but we'll see. It's such an unknown but I'm almost tempted to sell my 680 now just to maximise the return I can get on it but not sure because I don't know what availability of gtx 780 will be like at release here in Australia. -Anthony Young- "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." - Leonardo da Vinci
April 30, 201313 yr the GTX780 will be around a 30% improvement over the GTX680. Anthony, Oh oh! Sounds to me like you will have a tough time not scratching that itch! Kind regards,
April 30, 201313 yr Your telling me! Haha One hurdle at a time though. Lol In the meantime looking forward to Haswell and any other release news leading into Computex. -Anthony Young- "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." - Leonardo da Vinci
April 30, 201313 yr I still don't think going from an i7 2600k to a Haswell is a worthwhile upgrade, I'll be skipping another generation. Cheers, Andy.
April 30, 201313 yr You may be right. It may not be a huge leap but its going to be quicker none the less. I like to have 2 PC's in the house, so rather than buying a Z77 motherboard now for my second build I think it makes more sense to just wait the month or 2 to buy Haswell. It will only be a difference of $100 AUD give or take so makes sense to me. Plus I like shiny new things. If I wasn't in the process of buying/building I'm not sure id bother going Haswell either. -Anthony Young- "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." - Leonardo da Vinci
April 30, 201313 yr Author Here is a link to an article about overclocking Haswell. The informtion in the article was released by Intel at IDF 2013 Beijing. http://hwbot.org/news/9347_intel_haswell_overclocking_fully_disclosed_theory_for_core_i7_4770k/ This is looking pretty good so far!
April 30, 201313 yr The possibility of going from a 4.5 Ghz overclock on my 3770K to something north of 5 Ghz and a 5-10% IPC improvement to boot definitely has my attention. I'll wait and see for now.
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