Buying a new CPU - Ivy Bridge or Haswell?

[m_austin]

Hi,

I was thinking of building a new PC, and I was wondering if it's worth buying Haswell or just getting an Ivy Bridge CPU and saving some money? There doesn't seem to be a lot of advantages for Haswell apart from battery life in laptops etc?

Thanks

 

[bubbleradish]

Haswell! It improves your performance and soon, most motherboards and other hardware are optimised for haswell.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Ivy isn't much cheaper than Haswell any more.

Haswell's only a few percent faster, but when they cost the same you might as well go for newer. You also get a few more USB3.0 ports and all SATA 6Gb/s.

 

[vmN]

Depends on how you look at it.

For certain task the improved architecture will be much more than a few percent faster.

I would go with haswell, as their improved architecture will be noticeable in the future.

 

[m_austin]

Ok great, thanks guys