i5 4460 or wait for broadwell

[stomp53]

Title says it all. Will there be any big performance increase?

 

[chenw]

There hasn't been much performance increase in CPU power from the last few intel generations, so there isn't a lot to gain from waiting for broadwell, which is still months away.

 

[TechyInAZ]

It depends, if you have an old system your upgrading then don't wait, but if you have a sandy or ivy bridge cpu already then you can wait.

 

[stomp53]

It depends, if you have an old system your upgrading then don't wait, but if you have a sandy or ivy bridge cpu already then you can wait.

I have ASUS H81M-C /1150, will it work with 5 generation cpus ?

 

[synphul]

It's not even clear if there will be a broadwell for the 1150, the only broadwell for desktops may be for the 2011 and for the haswell-e (i7's) as broadwell-e. I5's may skip to skylake which is a new socket. Seems between intel's bumpy 19nm die shrink issues and multitudes of speculation, no one knows what's going on. What matters is what exists, not what might. I wouldn't hold my breath on 5th gen i5's or i7's, since broadwell got pushed back to skylake's release date and skylake is still getting released (intel wanted to skip broadwell all together) it may go straight to 6th gen on a new socket/chipset.

 

[chenw]

CPU is not like GPU where waiting for a new gen or even new model can mean night and day for the money spent, the growth of CPU power has been slow for the past several generations.

Even if Skylake suddenly doubles in performance compared to Haswell (unlikely to happen, but for the sake of argument), not many games are actually bottlenecked by CPU, hence the improvements you will get going to the hypothetical skylake is still going to be minimal.

I'd say, if you are going to upgrade your CPU, now is as good as any.