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If you’re a desktop gamer looking for more processing grunt and some hefty overclocking prowess from this new architecture, however, you’re probably going to be rather disappointed.
Haswell is all about power-saving and improved integrated graphics. In other words, the 4th Generation Core architecture is built for mobile computing
in general, ever so slightly quicker compared with the existing Ivy Bridge chips. But not in any meaningful way for gamers
From Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge the overclocking performance dropped, and in the transition to the Haswell architecture that performance has dropped again. There also seems to be far greater variance between chips too. I’ve spoken with various system integrators and they were all struggling to figure out where to position their overclocked Haswell rigs
We’re looking at around 200MHz lower clocks than the equivalent overclocked Ivy Bridge chips, even using decent water-cooling CPU blocks
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/06/0 ... r-your-desktop-rig/
