nice! thanks for the info
I just played a little BF3 with my new 7950 and the 1055t overclocked to 4.2 GHz, runs at a solid 60 FPS on ultra. I should be good for a while except for the occasional game here and there.
Yeah, wait for Haswell if you haven't bought anything yet.
Leaked info says that Intel is saying:
1. At least a 10% improvement per equal clockspeed vs Ivy. Hopefully that's conservative as it's a major redesign. Hoping for 20-30%.
2. Higher overclock ceiling. So hopefully easy 5 GHz.
Together we're looking at a total improvement of 20-50%. Not as good as Westmere to Sandy, but I'll take it.
Will it keep up with next gen ports? Absolutely. Intel's core speed is unrivaled. There may be ports that have issues because they're designed for 6-8 tiny cores, but we almost always figure out how to modify settings to workaround these issues.
Personally I think my 2013 PC is going to be Haswell + a single high end GPU, and I'll replace the GPU on a 1.5 year basis. Crossfire/SLI only works 1/3 of the time it seems.