Haswell may not be a big deal as first thought

Might Get the Ivy Bridge-E

BigTabs said:

Might Get the Ivy Bridge-E

That's where im heading in a while Ivy Bridge but that de-lidding situation still has me thinking

Delidding was only for people early on that got IB CPUs that half-ass defective from the get go. The newer IB chips are suppose to be really nice. You don't have to delid anything

IB-E looks and sounds better

IB-E comes at a much higher price tag as well.

If its a great overclocker and cooler im willing to pay

BigTabs said:

If its a great overclocker and cooler im willing to pay

Big tabs i'm sure it will be a lot better going to Ivy Overclocking shouldn't matter to much at that point I mean 4.5 to 4.6 is a great Oc and for Intel doubt you need to crank it up to 4.8 Ghz

Even though we maintain high Oc's were still getting beat out by performance

if i can find that sabertooth board and the cpu for a good price i'll just chuck the ram I already have in there so hopefully I can get away for about 450.00 total upgrade

I'm going to wait and see what people say when its out

IB-E won't even have a cooler with it. The cheapest CPU will be the 4 core 8 thread model at about $320, and there is next to no reason to buy it because it doesn't outperform the 3770K and the motherboards are more expensive. The best CPU for the money will be the mid-range CPU which will run about $540 and will be 6 cores and 12 threads. Most people going with the -Extreme line go with this processor. The high end CPU will be around $1000 and will perform marginally better than the ~$500 CPU.

Here is what is leaked so far, and this is probably accurate as they are coming out next month.



Also, with almost double the TDP, IB-E will require a much better cooler when you start overclocking. A single radiator system just won't cut it.