Title: Good read on the new Haswell processors Post by: Renegade on June 06, 2013, 03:50:13 PM http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/06/06/might-haswell-upgrade-your-cpu-not-for-your-desktop-rig/
Title: Re: Good read on the new Haswell processors Post by: evildoer on June 06, 2013, 05:50:20 PM Barely any difference at all in pure CPU benchmarks
Features of the chipset are poo poo for gamers as well. Kind of embarrassing really, I wonder if AMD will take this opportunity to gain some ground.. even though they said they were backing off on desktop chips. Title: Re: Good read on the new Haswell processors Post by: Ogre on June 06, 2013, 06:35:48 PM I agree, there is not a substantial increase in performance over the Ivy-bridge. I'll stick with my Sandy-bridge i5 and maybe move up to the i7 2600k eventually.
Title: Re: Good read on the new Haswell processors Post by: Renegade on June 06, 2013, 07:00:59 PM I do not plan to carry them in store at this time. Once my 1155 are gone I might but for now sticking with 1155 as most builds I do here are for gamers.
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