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I'm buying a new computer, haven't been keeping up with Intel stuff. Is there any huge differences/issues between Haswell and Sandy Bridge cpus?
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;42410815]I'm buying a new computer, haven't been keeping up with Intel stuff. Is there any huge differences/issues [U][B]between[/B][/U] Haswell and Sandy Bridge cpus?[/QUOTE] Ivy bridge
How much worse is the OCZ Agility 3 compared to the Agility 4? I can't find a place that sells the Agility 4 in the UK yet (Not for less than the 840 Evo or something similar anyway). Or should I go for the Crucial M4? I'll be using this drive as a boot drive so it'll just include my OS and my programs, I dunno what exactly I'll be needing.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;42410815]I'm buying a new computer, haven't been keeping up with Intel stuff. Is there any huge differences/issues between Haswell and Sandy Bridge cpus?[/QUOTE] I'm going to assume you meant Ivy Bridge, the 22nm shrink of Sandy Bridge. All that comes from that is reduced power consumption (both load and idle), but that doesn't really help temps because die size shrank, so the heat density is about the same. Haswell is on the same 22nm process, so all that still applies. For a gaming desktop, there's essentially no difference. Marginally improved IPC, some new instructions no game yet uses, but not much else. Haswell really focused on iGPU performance and low idle power draw. They did a good job there - the Iris Pro isn't good enough to seriously game on, yet, but it's likely to displace mobile GPUs up to the 650M or so. And the idle power savings are tremendous, but that really only helps tablets, maybe laptops. Desktops are essentially static. Really, the biggest difference to gamers is on the chipset side (Haswell is on a new socket, so new chipsets came out). Compared to SB/IB, you get native USB 3.0, more SATA 3.0, and the chipset PCIe 2.0 x16 are now PCIe 3.0. Is it worth upgrading just for that? Not really.
If you have Sandy Bridge you'll be fine until Skylake (which is what I'm holding out for, even though I'm still on a Bloomfield Nehalem, a 920). PCIe 4.0, DDR4 ram, SATA express and some cool other features
No, I mean Haswell. It does seem to be something different than ivy bridge or sandy bridge [quote]Haswell is the codename for a processor microarchitecture developed by Intel as the successor to the Ivy Bridge architecture.[1] It uses the 22 nm process.[2] Intel officially announced CPUs with this microarchitecture on June 4, 2013 at Computex Taipei 2013.[3] With Haswell, Intel introduced a low-power processor designed for convertible or 'hybrid' Ultrabooks, having the Y suffix. Intel demonstrated a working Haswell chip at the 2011 Intel Developer Forum.[4][/quote] I currently have an AMD fx 6100 6 core in my current PC. Cheap processor that's served me pretty well, but I need to upgrade to an SLI-suuporting platform and if I need to buy a new motherboard anyways, I may as well just buy a full new computer. It's about time for an upgrade anyways. The preliminary cpu choices I'm looking at are Intel Core i7 4770K Unlocked Quad Core 3.5GHZ Haswell 8MB or Intel Core i7 3770K Unlocked Quad Core 3.5GHZ Ivy Bridge 8MB (cheaper) [editline]4th October 2013[/editline] For games I don't give a shit since I mostly play TES games and M&B warband However I'll be doing a lot of 3d rendering for blender and maya mental ray on this, some on my CPU and some on my GPUs depending on the scene. Will probably be working with UDK in the near future as well A workstation pc is out of the question though, fucking outrageously expensive.
Honestly get a good deal on the 3770k and a mobo since they're fairly cheap atm. An LGA 2011 build would be more up your alley but you clearly don't want one
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;42412220]No, I mean Haswell. It does seem to be something different than ivy bridge or sandy bridge I currently have an AMD fx 6100 6 core in my current PC. Cheap processor that's served me pretty well, but I need to upgrade to an SLI-suuporting platform and if I need to buy a new motherboard anyways, I may as well just buy a full new computer. It's about time for an upgrade anyways. The preliminary cpu choices I'm looking at are Intel Core i7 4770K Unlocked Quad Core 3.5GHZ Haswell 8MB or Intel Core i7 3770K Unlocked Quad Core 3.5GHZ Ivy Bridge 8MB (cheaper) [editline]4th October 2013[/editline] For games I don't give a shit since I mostly play TES games and M&B warband However I'll be doing a lot of 3d rendering for blender and maya mental ray on this, some on my CPU and some on my GPUs depending on the scene. Will probably be working with UDK in the near future as well A workstation pc is out of the question though, fucking outrageously expensive.[/QUOTE] What I meant was "you mean Ivy Bridge vs Haswell, not Sandry Bridge vs Haswell, right?" Basically, Intel follows a two-year cycle. Every year, it's either a new microarchitecture (uarch), or a new fabrication process. 2006-2007 - Core - new uarch on 65nm 2008 - Penryn - Core shrunk to 45nm 2009 - Nehalem - new uarch on 45nm 2010 - Westmere - Nehalem shrunk to 32nm 2011 - Sandy Bridge - new uarch on 32nm 2012 - Ivy Bridge - Sandy Bridge shrunk to 22nm 2013 - Haswell - new uarch on 22nm 2014 (planned) - Broadwell - Haswell shrunk to 14nm 2015 (planned) - Skylake - new uarch on 14nm This strategy is basically how Intel is winning right now - they're focused heavily on getting to smaller and smaller process nodes, which gives you cheaper, lower-power transistors. Doing it this way, they're never changing too much - AMD often does a new uarch on a new process (easy to mess one of them up), and because they no longer control the factories, they can't push as hard for smaller processes. Intel's basically a generation ahead right now - AMD is still on 32nm, preparing to roll out 28nm chips, while Intel is sampling 14nm processors already. Anyways, for your question, even though the last-gen 3770K is cheaper, it's likely that a comparable motherboard will be more expensive unless you find a retailer trying to get rid of back inventory. Again, this is because of the chipset, not the processor - a mobo with USB 3.0 or a reasonable number of 6Gbps SATA ports is only doing so by having addon chips, which add to the cost. Look at your total cost for everything. I'd also give a thought to future upgrades. A new Intel uarch requires a new socket, and thus new mobo. SB and IB are on the same socket, but Haswell is on a new one. Broadwell is expected to use the same, but no new SB/IB-socket chips will be made. If you think you might want a new CPU next year, go Haswell. As for performance, look at benchmarks. My go-to source for those is Anandtech, and they just did a big CPU roundup. They focused mainly on gaming, but they did have [url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/7189/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-september-2013/5]a POVRay and some video conversion benchmarks[/url] which showed a surprising improvement for Haswell over Ivy Bridge. And for your specific workload, AMD is actually not a bad choice - they focused more on multi-core than IPC, so rendering gets a nice boost compared to games.
Guys anyone know how or why the Drive letters, or contents of said drives would have swapped after re-formatting Win 8 and installing Win 7? Basically I have C:, D:, E:. The contents of D: and E: have completely and seamlessly swapped. It is causing zero problems but I am curious and Google yields no answers.
You can change it back if you want, just type in "Disk management" into start menu and click enter. Then click on a partition you want to change and go to change drive letter and path. No idea why it would switch though
[QUOTE=whatthe;42417416]Guys anyone know how or why the Drive letters, or contents of said drives would have swapped after re-formatting Win 8 and installing Win 7? Basically I have C:, D:, E:. The contents of D: and E: have completely and seamlessly swapped. It is causing zero problems but I am curious and Google yields no answers.[/QUOTE] Did you install the E drive after D? If they're installed while OS is installed they automatically go in order of installation, otherwise it's based on the order they are in the SATA ports afaik.
[B]Software question[/B] What mail client do you guys recommend?
[QUOTE=Moofy;42417663][B]Software question[/B] What mail client do you guys recommend?[/QUOTE] I use Postbox, it costs $10 but I think it's worth it.
[QUOTE=Dorkslayz;42417810]I use Postbox, it costs $10 but I think it's worth it.[/QUOTE] $10 is very cheap, it does come with custom sounds for when receiving mail right? I like a little ping to notify me. :)
Placed an order for a 27" 2560x1440 monitor for my laptop when I'm at home. (This if for hardware (FPGA) programming proposes mostly. I have my doubts how well my GTX670M can game on it if I wanted to). Anything I should know about before I get this thing?
[QUOTE=Moofy;42417842]$10 is very cheap, it does come with custom sounds for when receiving mail right? I like a little ping to notify me. :)[/QUOTE] Yeah, it's pretty good.
[QUOTE=Moofy;42417663][B]Software question[/B] What mail client do you guys recommend?[/QUOTE] I use Thunderbird, some people don't like it but I don't see any problems with it. Sure, it has some extra functionality that maybe a mail client shouldn't have (it supports XMPP), and the project is pretty much frozen. But it doesn't really need changes right now.
[QUOTE=nikomo;42418495]I use Thunderbird, some people don't like it but I don't see any problems with it. Sure, it has some extra functionality that maybe a mail client shouldn't have (it supports XMPP), and the project is pretty much frozen. But it doesn't really need changes right now.[/QUOTE] I used it before, it just seemed quite slow at times. However PostBox is weird, it updates my inbox 20 minutes after I get the actual Email. That's not optimal for me.
Whenever I try to play M&B Warband on my laptop, it shuts off after playing in a battle for a couple minutes. I'm pretty sure it's overheating. I have the graphics set to the lowest possible settings. Is it normal for laptops to run extremely hot like that? I did have to send it back to get the fan replaced so could they have messed something up when installing it? Like not put on thermal paste or something? They did forget to remove a plastic bit between a chip an the heatsink: [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250112&p=42344949&viewfull=1#post42344949[/url] Here are my laptop specs: [QUOTE]Operating System Windows 8 64-bit CPU Intel Core i3 3320M @ 2.60GHz 58 °C Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology RAM 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28) Motherboard LENOVO 6885CTO (CPU Socket - U3E1) 30 °C Graphics ThinkPad Display 1366x768 (1366x768@50Hz) Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Lenovo) Hard Drives 466GB Hitachi HGST HTS725050A7E630 (SATA) 41 °C Optical Drives No optical disk drives detected Audio Conexant 20671 SmartAudio HD[/QUOTE]
Just shut off while playing Defcon. The fan was quiet, I highly doubt it overheated. no automerge?
[QUOTE=Pelf;42425634]Just shut off while playing Defcon. The fan was quite, I highly doubt it overheated. no automerge?[/QUOTE] I have played M&B on a Vista Intel Core 2 laptop before and it was fine running on DX7 mode. The specs of your laptop should run on lowest absolutely fine, sounds like maybe something else is going wrong.
Anyone know of any software that will allow me to sync a folder on my computer with my Galaxy S3?
[QUOTE=SammySung;42428744]Anyone know of any software that will allow me to sync a folder on my computer with my Galaxy S3?[/QUOTE] Dropbox, Google Drive.
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;42428754]Dropbox, Google Drive.[/QUOTE] I don't want to upload/download it all, just a simple sync with the cable.
[QUOTE=SammySung;42428765]I don't want to upload/download it all, just a simple sync with the cable.[/QUOTE] Should be some kind of WiFi transfer app that you can use on Google play, I've never tried any but I know they exist.
[QUOTE=Pelf;42424162]Whenever I try to play M&B Warband on my laptop, it shuts off after playing in a battle for a couple minutes. I'm pretty sure it's overheating. I have the graphics set to the lowest possible settings. Is it normal for laptops to run extremely hot like that? I did have to send it back to get the fan replaced so could they have messed something up when installing it? Like not put on thermal paste or something? They did forget to remove a plastic bit between a chip an the heatsink: [URL]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250112&p=42344949&viewfull=1#post42344949[/URL] Here are my laptop specs:[/QUOTE] Ran a Prime95 test. Temperatures average 88-89C and occasionally maxed at 90C. Laptop didn't shut off at all. Played Portal 1 on low graphics and it ran well without shutting off. Could it just be some conflict with M&B and Defcon?
why is there a teeny bit of input lag with my razer mamba (mice)?
[QUOTE=Angus725;42417919]Placed an order for a 27" 2560x1440 monitor for my laptop when I'm at home. (This if for hardware (FPGA) programming proposes mostly. I have my doubts how well my GTX670M can game on it if I wanted to). Anything I should know about before I get this thing?[/QUOTE] Ugg, screen too large. Need to physically move head to see corners.
Does anyone have recommendations on a new Hard Drive? My 2TB WD Green is failing on me and I need to get a replacement. I'm thinking about getting a WD Red 2TB-4TB. I haven't heard good things about 4TB for reliability sakes.
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;42432965]Does anyone have recommendations on a new Hard Drive? My 2TB WD Green is failing on me and I need to get a replacement. I'm thinking about getting a WD Red 2TB-4TB. I haven't heard good things about 4TB for reliability sakes.[/QUOTE] Red drives are designed for NAS setups. If this is going into normal computer, you want a Blue (baseline) or Black (Performance) class drive. Right now I'm using a 2 TB Barracuda drive: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148834[/url] but if you're set on Western Digital here's what I found: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136792[/url] You really want to stay away from Green or other drives with IntelliPower, since a standard HDD's performance is directly related to how fast it spins.
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