nolabeast Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 I'm thinking about building a gaming desktop. However, I don't want to buy a Z87 motherboard, and then I won't be able to upgrade to the next Intel Broadwell CPU. For gaming purposes, would I see a performance boost with broadwell. My understanding is that the bottleneck for gaming is typically at GPU, so that's why there isn't much difference between i7 and i5 for gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khenglish Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 As an EE major doing research on future processes, I recommend that you do not wait for broadwell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevertrj Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 as for my experience of how the future will pan out, new technologies don't always work out 100% when they are released it's only after a few revisions do they get all the kinks out, you could build a great gaming PC with one of the current core i7's have it overclocked to 4.0GHz, any questions on what to build feel free to pm me for my input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMC Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 And you have an idea if Clevo Pxxsm will be compatible with Maxwell GPUs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awlmfgskar Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Waiting for Broadwell is not nessesary, the CPU is absolutely not so important for a gaming PC. Hashwell-E, Hashwell, and Ivy Bridge have enough power for all games! Use the money for a better GPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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