How Many Very Early Adopters?

[crashtech]

You have a point, there. I might need to learn what cost as no object feels like before truly acting the part, my practical side won't be overcome so easily.

 

[Bubba77]

Ill be picking up one day one as long as its available. Im coming from a i7 960 and ive been waiting a while to build.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I'd have to see some pretty impressive benchmarks for gaming to even consider. I'm still jammin a kick ass i7 920

How many cycles do we have left until Mooars law?!?!

 

[OBLAMA2009]

i remember buyng pentium 3 early on and it had lots of bugs. it would freeze and you couldnt turn it off with the power button you would have to use the switch on the power supply. totally not worth the early adoption

 

[HURRIC4NE]

i guess it depends on people's incomes, and the ammount of upgrade they're willing to do. it will probably the same for everyone with hard times. and same for everyone with mula. so i guess its more of a social financial change.

 

[MisterMac]

If either missus allows it - or i can sneak a purchase in - i have everything on launchday.

What's the the fun in new hardware 6 months\year later?

 

[Red Squirrel]

New cpus usually mean new cpu socket which means new motherboard, so I usually don't adopt unless I'm due for an upgrade and planing to build a whole new system. The prices also go down by then. :biggrin:

 

[Cerb]

Never pre-order, but then it just depends on need. I mean, I'm not going to get an older CPU, because the new one might have bugs. So, if a new one came out, that'll be it. But, I'm also not going to go buy it because it's new. I'm going to buy it because I have a use for it.

The exception, however, is Linux boxes. It's always better to be a little behind the latest and greatest, to not have to deal with hardware teething issues in the kernel.

If cost were no object, I'd go with Xeon E5 series all the way, equipped with more RAM than I know what to do with, VMs included, using a custom passive water cooling setup, and a single case fan for mobo/GPU components. Cost really needs to remain an object .

 

[jones377]

I'd buy it on release day, after reading reviews, if I can find the right motherboard and there isn't severe price gouging. Otherwise I'll wait a week or two. Been waiting a LONG time for this

 

[Piroko]

I tend to hold onto my old hardware for as long as possible (still on a Phenom 2) but when I buy new, I tend to get the latest stuff after the early adopter price hike has settled, so, probably 1-6 months.

 

[Fx1]

I need a new PC because my i7 950 is a dog and runs at stock due to instability. The mobo has more bugs than a [redacted] and i cant wait to ebay the lot.

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[R0H1T]

i have more infractions on this forum than Linsay Lohan has court appearances

But wait isn't that a good thing, you don't have to go to court :biggrin:

 

[skipsneeky2]

Last big thing i got in early on was a 6990 when they first came out,one set of drivers and i remember being pretty miserable attempting to get it stable as well as get the performance i paid for.

Just decided after a fresh format and still nothing but issues just to return it and go for a gtx580,then a thermaltake psu took out the rig that had the gtx580 lol .

 

[fleshconsumed]

I don't need latest and greatest, certainly not on release day, and since I have multiple desktops at home I cannot splurge. I'm slowly upgrading my computers, so my current plan is to wait until black friday to get haswell. I have both Fry's and Microcenter within half an hour driving distance from me, at least one of them will have a haswell bundle around black friday for cheap. Plus if I wait until black friday I won't have to deal with the sleep bug in haswell.

 

[A5]

I'll be building a Haswell system some time in June, but that isn't my normal pattern. My current desktop is an i7-920.

 

[Arkaign]

I may get a Haswell notebook, but for desktop it looks like a sidegrade for me at best.

 

[FalseChristian]

I've got an i5 2500K at 4.5GHz. I think I'm good for quite awhile now.

 

[crashtech]

Wow, I thought there would be more of a consensus, but the distribution is so even! The second option is not what I would have guessed to have the fewest votes. It seems those inclined to get something early are not prone to hesitate!

 

[TY-1]

I've been planning to build a new rig for quite awhile now, but I will probably wait until at least July or August to make sure most of the bugs are ironed out and properly select the key components after they have been thoroughly reviewed.

 

[gevorg]

It depends. For SSDs, I wait at least 1 year after release before buying. For CPUs, within a first month or so. Though, got burned by the Sandy Bridge bug, and never by any SSDs that I had.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

With Ivy i bought on launch day, but then again the boards had been out for a while and were somewhat mature. With haswell i will wait a few weeks to see if anything huge is broken in any of the vendors offerings

 

[piasabird]

Takes me like a year to get extra money for a PC. So I kind of just started an expendable money fund. It is like a Christmas saving plan for Computers. This is separate and on top of retirement savings.

Dont Smoke
Dont Drink Alcohol
Just buy computers

Last computer was a Q68 MB with a 2500k CPU.

I think Haswell will be lacking in any kind of improvement. I feel it should have DDR4. I cant see buying a new socket motherboard and then needing a new motherboard because Intel releases a chipset/CPU with DDR4 capability. I think this is what will happen.

DDR4 is coming!
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Haswell-E-DDR4-Ivy-Bridge,22022.html

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

On the desktop, my i7 920 is still doing fine, and I'm not convinced I'll see any qualitative improvement going to a Haswell CPU.

On the mobile side, I might be getting a laptop within the next year or so, so maybe a Haswell ultrabook?

 

[A5]

Takes me like a year to get extra money for a PC. So I kind of just started an expendable money fund. It is like a Christmas saving plan for Computers. This is separate and on top of retirement savings.

Dont Smoke
Dont Drink Alcohol
Just buy computers

Last computer was a Q68 MB with a 2500k CPU.

I think Haswell will be lacking in any kind of improvement. I feel it should have DDR4. I cant see buying a new socket motherboard and then needing a new motherboard because Intel releases a chipset/CPU with DDR4 capability. I think this is what will happen.

DDR4 is coming!
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Haswell-E-DDR4-Ivy-Bridge,22022.html

Haswell-E probably won't be out until the end of 2014. I wouldn't expect the mainstream desktops to have it before 2015.

 

[gipper53]

Can't say I've ever built a machine based on when a new CPU or GPU was going to be released. I've always built them when I felt an upgrade was in order and I had the money. So usually the cycle goes: 1. get the upgrade itch. 2. Start saving money. 3. Buy system when I save enough.

I built an IB system a couple of months ago knowing Haswell was around the corner. If Haswell was promising huge gains I might have waited, but for the 10-15% everyone is saying it was not worth holding out. Probably won't even think about another upgrade until 2017