Will my h105 cooler work with haswell-e?

[dispositional]

Okay so I have a corsair H105 closed loop water cooler. it works great with my i5-4670k but I am thinking about upgrading to the new haswell-e processors when they arrive. I am just wondering if my h105 will be compatible with the LGA 2011-3. It does come with mounting brackets for LGA 2011 but I'm not sure if the -3 version will be laid out differently.

 

[dovah-chan]

I'm pretty sure that it'll be compatible. It's still using the same overall socket but it seems to be just a different revision. Intel and AMD have both taken great strives in order to maintain maximum compatibility with most coolers.

Plus if it turns out it isn't, I would head on over to Corsair customer service and request that you receive a mounting bracket for it since their engineers are probably already cooking one up if it is any different. Corsair is a good company and as long as you have your lot code (which is located on your radiator I believe) you're in good hands.

What are you wanting to upgrade for anyway? I've found nothing my 4670K isn't capable of gaming-wise. Only reason I can see 2011 as a valid platform is for workstation-style loads.

 

[dispositional]

Ya I figured corsair was a good company, why I went with them in the first place. I guess you are right it wouldn't be that difficult for them to just release a new mounting bracket if it was any different.

Gaming wise I am running 3x 60hz 1080p monitors using a nvidia GTX 780 which is not quite satisfieing me at the moment. I am considering getting a second 780 to give me more horse power once the 880 comes out and (hopefully) the 780 will drop down in price. I am a little concerned about having enough lanes of PCI express (my current motherboard supports 8x and 8x of PCI express 3.0 and I'm not sure if that is going to create a bottleneck or not).

Gaming is more of a secondary need for my computer though. I mostly use it for programming and Stuff like that. I just have been doing a little research and have found out that Intel's next upgrade will just be a die shrink and no new architecture is going to be released until skylake. This just makes me think that broadwell will not be that much of an improvement over my current haswell CPU. And that what is going to give me the processing power before skylake is going to be the Haswell-E platform. Also Intel has been going pretty slow on their whole tick tock process so it might be a while before skylake arrives. Even at that I am not sure if intel's processors are going to have that much of an increase in their next generations. I read that Haswell only had a 10% increase over the previous generation and that Haswell-E is supposedly going to have a 33%-50% performance increase over Haswell. I do have a decent 4670k though, I am able to reach 4.4ghz at 1.212v at a relatively low temperature and I am able to reach 4.7ghz I just have not found a stable voltage yet. I don't know I have been considering if it would really be worth. There also is the possiblity that the haswell E might not overclock that well and that I would have been better off in the first place to just stay where I am at.

I don't know what do you think?

 

[dovah-chan]

Lately with my fps in every game I've played I've found no reason to upgrade to a newer platform. I find its all about your purpose and what games you like to play.