kinda disappointed here. stuck with 1155 board and no new processor, only the first ivy bridge.:( thats one thing I hated about intel. always changing sockets.

kinda disappointed here. stuck with 1155 board and no new processor, only the first ivy bridge.:( thats one thing I hated about intel. always changing sockets.

Then we have to buy their new MBs aswell. 😉

Nice, I'll go after the 4930K

I've been umming and ahhing about whether to get an i7-4770K now or wait for a 6-core CPU later, especially as I wanted feel like I actually upgrading since I already had a quad-core 8-threaded i7-920. In the end, I decided to buy the i7-4770K, simply because as a gamer, there is little or no advantage to owning anything more than a quad-core at the moment. Most games don't even utilise four cores effectively, nevermind six and the review benchmarks focus on video compression and other non-gaming stuff like that which tend to highlight how fast they really are. Games tend to be pretty much the same as for a quad-core based on what I've seen so it seems silly to spend more for something that might not be used for three or four years, if at all. Although the next-gen consoles, which usually drive the hardware specs up for PC games, are using 8-core CPUs, they're clocked at a measly 1.6 GHz and architecturally the PC and next-gen Xbox One and PS4 are much closer than ever before meaning lousy ports that required double or triple the specs of the consoles to run decently should become a thing of the past. As such, I cannot imagine that 6-core CPUs will really prove to be useful at all for PC gaming, certainly not in the immediate future anyway (the next three years). By the time they do then I'll likely be looking at a new PC build anyway.

I'm going to get the 4930K. The reason I bought my RIVE mobo was in anticipation of the IB-E release.

Nice cpu's but not a worthy upgrade for me.thx for the news.

still only 6 core mean im going no where near them, would of thought that we would be at alot higher core count by now. I wonder if they will come with the heat spreader problems

Is there really any point upgrading from my i7-920?

Is there really any point upgrading from my i7-920?

Imo yes there is, not least if you care about minimum framerate in demanding titles, and we know there's gonna be many of those appearing and we already have some now, (crysis 3, tomb raider for ex.)

Is there really any point upgrading from my i7-920?

Yes there is. And now would be a good time considering we have Haswell,IB-E etc. on the way.

I think I'll end up buying one of these, either the 4820K or if I'm feeling spendy the 4930K. I'm expecting review of all of them, Hilbert 😀

still only 6 core mean im going no where near them, would of thought that we would be at alot higher core count by now. I wonder if they will come with the heat spreader problems

Core count does NOT determine CPU performance.

Is there really any point upgrading from my i7-920?

Absolutely not! I have all the generations but Haswell (i7 920/i7 875k/ i7 2700k/ i7 3770k) in my personal tests in gaming there is almost no difference at all, 1-3 frames at best (especially when I have the 920 clocked at 4ghz.

but can it play crysis @ 4096x2304 😀 ???

Core count does NOT determine CPU performance.

LOL of course it does, if it didn't matter we'd still be using single core processors....but the software needs to be written properly. Ever heard of multi-threading or parallel processing? BF3 would run better with an i7 if HT is turned on...for example.

Yep, mat_queue_mode -1 or 0 in CS GO (from valve) is the multicore support command. Watch your fps pretty much drop from 250 to 125-150'ish by simply turning off multicore support. Tbh the amount of CPU power we already have is tremendous, applications are simply not using it properly enough yet. Though Valve said that extra cores always became more usefull in steps of 3 or 4 extra cores, 1 extra core didn't do that much (dualcore vs quad).

Absolutely not! I have all the generations but Haswell (i7 920/i7 875k/ i7 2700k/ i7 3770k) in my personal tests in gaming there is almost no difference at all, 1-3 frames at best (especially when I have the 920 clocked at 4ghz.

This is what I was wondering, seeing as I have one monitor @ 1920x1200 I didn't feel the upgrade would be worth it for near same performance. Replacing my 2 x 460s might be more sensible though!!

This is what I was wondering, seeing as I have one monitor @ 1920x1200 I didn't feel the upgrade would be worth it for near same performance. Replacing my 2 x 460s might be more sensible though!!

With two 460's (I had the same thing until three weeks ago) there's absolutely no point in changing your cpu+mobo. New gpu? Sure 😉

Absolutely not! I have all the generations but Haswell (i7 920/i7 875k/ i7 2700k/ i7 3770k) in my personal tests in gaming there is almost no difference at all, 1-3 frames at best (especially when I have the 920 clocked at 4ghz.

If you're saying a 3770K is no better than a 920,then you're smoking something very very good. Not only gaming,but ANYTHING will perform much better with the 3770K compared to the i7 920. IMHO.

I've had 920/2720QM/2760QM/3930K/3720QM/3770K/3930K 3930K wins every time.