Haswell vs. Devil's Canyon

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Hello all,

So right now I have the Haswell 4670k and unfortunately, it's not the best chip and I only got it to like 4.2 ghz stable. Is it worth switching to the 4690k (Devil's Canyon), or is there not much of a difference when it comes to overclocking because I heard the thermals are better. 

Thanks,

gmasstaa

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If it doesn't cost to much for an upgrade by trade in or selling yours and getting a new Mobo and CPU it might...

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if you have the cash in your pocket, doesn't sound bad. My 4670K is completely stable at 4.5 Ghz so I don't have a problem with it. the 4690K is suppose to overclock much better (better thermal paste and power delivery, plus more power efficient)

It really comes down to you. Is your 4670K bottlenecking your system? or is it functioning fine at 4.2 Ghz? if your current chip is powerful enough, then there is no reason to upgrade.

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its worth it if you are still Running a ivy bridge or sandy bridge Processor. but if you are running haswell which you just stated you are. than its just a waste because you aren't going to see a noticeable improvement. also do you think its worth spending a couple hundred dollars for extra megahertz on your CPU?

if you are running z87 than don't do it. save your money and wait for broadwell.

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There's no point really, what games do you play mate? Even the worst optimized ones work just fine on a 3ghz i5.

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I see you have a fancy OCing motherboard. Then try to sell your 4670k as high as possible and get the 4690K instead.

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So what exactly is broadwell? I'm getting confused between that and Devils Canyon

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Broadwell is Intels next upcoming architecture (only smaller architecture updates).

It is like from sandy bridge to ivy bridge. Only a die shrink, with a few architecture updates.

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upgrading from haswell 1.0 to devils canyon is totaly pointless. the performance diffrence is probably not even noticable.

if you want to upgrade, everything earlier then skylake is pointless.

Unless you like to trow your money in the sea.

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where does skylake fit into all this?

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The future mate

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indeed skylake will be netxt gen intel cpu´s on socket 1151. and "probably" ddr4

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z87 supports devil's canyon with the latest bios.

Performance is obviously not that noticable but if he already invested in an OC board and had bad luck with his 4670k then devil's canyon would be a considerable upgrade, potentially a ghz faster.

So for an OCer selling with a good price to buy this isn't a very bad idea

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z87 supports devil's canyon with the latest bios.

That would be nice.

Edit: yes its confirmed but only for Asus boards?

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/intel_devil%E2%80%99s_canyon_can_be_used_on_the_z87_motherboard_chipset.html

Anyway, in my opinnion, its still trowing money in the sea for "op"

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DDR4 will launch on the X99 platform from Intel. Which will come before Skylake so I'd imagine that will likely have it!

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2016 will be the interessting year. DDR4 skylake, maybe new AMD FX cpu´s..

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I agree, I am highly looking forward to Skylake based on some of the stuff that Intel have hinted at about it we might finally get out of the Sandy Bridge based saga we've been sitting in for the past 3, coming up on 4, generations.

Wikipedia has a little list of the nice rumors surrounding Skylake (several even have sources attached)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)

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Really fast DDR4 would be great for the APUs of the future.

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well im still very happy with my FX8350, and if amd does not come with anything new for AMD FX in 2016, i may concider to switch to skylake, or the skylake succesor. depending on how far the gaming market is optimized then.

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Mostly Battlefield