Haswell Pricing

Tropheus

Aria in the UK have pricing up for pre ordering Haswell Processors and have reduced prices on Ivy Bridge.

Looks like it's definitely worth waiting a couple of weeks to order Ivy Bridge processors as the prices are coming down.

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Processors/Intel+CPUs

BloodBath

I like how they are charging €12 more for this when 100% of the processors would do 4.4ghz anyway.

Easy way to make a buck I guess. Just a bit low grade.

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Processors/Intel+CPUs/Core+i5+-+Socket+1150+Haswell/Intel+Core+i5-4670K+3.40GHz+%40+4.40GHz+%28Haswell%29+Socket+LGA1150+Overclocked+Processor+-+OEM+?productId=55902

Gumbi

Yeah, that's pretty cheeky. Even someone pretty tech-savvy night miss that trick. They probably don't even test them (knowing, as Bloodbath said, that they will ALL hit 4.4 anyway)!

..Brian..

It's not even OC'd. They are just saying they were able to reach 4.4GHZ. So all paying for is them to say "we could do it, can't guarantee you will though!"

**We cannot guarantee the user will achieve this Overclock as it's down to the individual to know how to Overclock professionally.

frozenfrozen

That's a bit of a sketchy stipulation at the end
"**We cannot guarantee the user will achieve this Overclock as it's down to the individual to know how to Overclock professionally." they could overclock "professionally" and put them all under dry ice and hit 5Ghz+ and sell them for 100 quid more and trick people into thinking they could do that at home... I suppose they could do it at home in winter in ireland

deceit

When are these being released and will there be itx boards released at the same time? I might pick up a 4770k and an itx board if there out soon

marco_polo

frozenfrozen wrote: »

That's a bit of a sketchy stipulation at the end
"**We cannot guarantee the user will achieve this Overclock as it's down to the individual to know how to Overclock professionally." they could overclock "professionally" and put them all under dry ice and hit 5Ghz+ and sell them for 100 quid more and trick people into thinking they could do that at home... I suppose they could do it at home in winter in ireland

Winter!, you could still probably do it in early May this year.

frozenfrozen

marco_polo wrote: »

Winter!, you could still probably do it in early May this year.

**Warning winter may refer to 51 weeks of the year in the irish climate**

cherryghost

i5's look to be in good shape pricewise

Serephucus

It'll all depend on how well these can OC, really. They're basically the same as Ivy in performance per clock, so for me it will depend on motherboard chipset features, and temp/volt requirements for given overclocks.

Ichirau

New to the whole PC building and was wondering which CPU would be best to get. The i5-3570k or the haswell i5-4670? They're around the same price. Not going to be overclocking if that makes a difference, and i was thinking since the haswell will be the newer model it might make my pc more future proof but i could be wrong.

Gumbi

Ichirau wrote: »

New to the whole PC building and was wondering which CPU would be best to get. The i5-3570k or the haswell i5-4670? They're around the same price. Not going to be overclocking if that makes a difference, and i was thinking since the haswell will be the newer model it might make my pc more future proof but i could be wrong.

You wouldn't get either if you weren't overclocking.

It all depends on your needs, budget, and other specs too (no point in buying an imbalanced system ie having poor components as then a top of the line CPU).

Ichirau

Gumbi wrote: »

You wouldn't get either if you weren't overclocking.

It all depends on your needs, budget, and other specs too (no point in buying an imbalanced system ie having poor components as then a top of the line CPU).

I'll be using it for mainly gaming. The prices are quite similar it wont effect my budget. The only other components i know so far i'll be getting is 8gb ram and a gtx 660ti.

So would the specs of the 4670k be an upgrade on the 3570k?

Gumbi

Ichirau wrote: »

I'll be using it for mainly gaming. The prices are quite similar it wont effect my budget. The only other components i know so far i'll be getting is 8gb ram and a gtx 660ti.

So would the specs of the 4670k be an upgrade on the 3570k?

Why don't you make a post and file out the questions in the sticky and we can help you out properly? A 7950 @ 1100mhz (this would be if you overclocked it - with GPUs it's done through software, really easy and quite safe) will beat a 660ti handily in pretty much every game with current drivers. It's around the same price too (some models are even cheaper currently).

You should definitely overclock if getting those chips. No point in getting them otherwise. For a new system a 4670k would probably be a bit better (more efficient, very slightly faster), albeit more expensive. We can't really know until it's released the ins and outs of its OCing capabilities.