Building a Gaming PC, is this good?

TwoCables said:

kbrady1979 said:

No, the new Haswell chips will run about 5-10% better than Ivy Bridge, clock for clock. That is to say the 3570k and 4670k, running at exactly the same frequency, will have about a 5-10% difference in benchmarks.

Also, I heard they should be easier to OC Paul, but I'd not seen anybody with a retail chip trying yet. I made my mind up when I built this rig that I'm not upgrading until there is new technology out....DDR4, SATA Express or better.

I think we are getting things twisted and complicated lol. If I were building a system right now, I would go with the Intel i5-3570K.......I've read that the new chips OC even better than the early ones.

Yeah, and I think that Haswell is going to see a similar improvement. That's what I am seeing some experts predicting anyway...

We won't have to wait much longer to see if the predictions were right, Haswell was released today and is in stock at most etailers. I could order one today for Tuesday delivery, but I won't.

I don't know if we have gone off topic or not here really seeing as the OP want's to Overclock, I guess it's a good idea for him to get the full picture on both Ivy and Haswell.

Paul.

kbrady1979 said:

Cough, cough, guinea pig, cough, cough

No way mate lol.

CommandoBob said:

I am not essentially wanting to overclock, all I'd care about is the performance of both CPUs when pushing them to their limits. Hope you'll undestand. :)

All I can go by is the review I read so far.

Based on that, if you only wanted to overclock Ivy or Haswell to 4.2ghz then Haswell will be faster and won't be too hot. If you want to go much higher then right now Ivy looks like the better option.

The good news is you don't need to buy for a month, by then there will be numerous reviews, benchmarks and user reviews on forums etc to give the full picture of what Haswell is like to overclock with.

paulpicks21 said:

kbrady1979 said:

Cough, cough, guinea pig, cough, cough

No way mate lol.

It would be easier for Kelly to test as he doesn't have to remove a video card when swapping out the motherboard

Dude said:

paulpicks21 said:

kbrady1979 said:

Cough, cough, guinea pig, cough, cough

No way mate lol.

It would be easier for Kelly to test as he doesn't have to remove a video card when swapping out the motherboard

Good point