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Hey,
So I think it's about time to upgrade from the X58 platform. I love my current setup, but it's starting to show its age.
I'd mainly be upgrading for new features like USB 3.0 and SATA 3.
I was looking at a 4770K, but my only concern was that I remember reading about some USB 3 bug that was present in first revisions of Haswell, not sure if that was ever fixed.
How much of an increase in cpu performance is Haswell clock for clock over bloomfield?
Also, I might SLI my 670s with a recent price drop here in teh UK bringing new 670s to ~ 300 USD.
Any recommendations on motherboards? I have always been a fan of ASUS, but I recently helped my friend build an Ivybridge rig and Gigabyte seems to have some quality boards.
Price isn't really an issue but I won't have a need for a Rampage or some crazy overclocking record board.
As for ram, what's standard these days 8gb, 16gb? I've always liked corsair and g.skill ram
Also, are there any new coolers out there that are substantially better than my H100? I think it might be kicking the bucket as cpu temps are almost 10C higher than what they used to be. Might just need a cleaning or reapplying the TIM.
Or am I just better off waiting for the next platform?
Thanks for any help.
So I think it's about time to upgrade from the X58 platform. I love my current setup, but it's starting to show its age.
I'd mainly be upgrading for new features like USB 3.0 and SATA 3.
I was looking at a 4770K, but my only concern was that I remember reading about some USB 3 bug that was present in first revisions of Haswell, not sure if that was ever fixed.
How much of an increase in cpu performance is Haswell clock for clock over bloomfield?
Also, I might SLI my 670s with a recent price drop here in teh UK bringing new 670s to ~ 300 USD.
Any recommendations on motherboards? I have always been a fan of ASUS, but I recently helped my friend build an Ivybridge rig and Gigabyte seems to have some quality boards.
Price isn't really an issue but I won't have a need for a Rampage or some crazy overclocking record board.
As for ram, what's standard these days 8gb, 16gb? I've always liked corsair and g.skill ram
Also, are there any new coolers out there that are substantially better than my H100? I think it might be kicking the bucket as cpu temps are almost 10C higher than what they used to be. Might just need a cleaning or reapplying the TIM.
Or am I just better off waiting for the next platform?
Thanks for any help.