News Seasonic confirms list of Haswell compatible power supplies

Seasonic has joined in confirming which of its power supplies are going to be Haswell compatible.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2013/05/14/seasonic-confirms-list-of-haswell-compatibl/1

 

Haswell... nah.. not much point in replacing the 2500K yet.. maybe next gen!

 

I've only just replaced my core 2 quad q6850 extreme processor so, I don't think I can justify another new one just yet

 

Have to ask

I have a core i7 950. It seems that more recent processors are only really incrementally faster, unless I do something like get a hex core CPU (and then I could just get a hex i7).

So what would I get by upgrading?

 

Power efficiency (84W TDP vs 130W), native support for SATA 6Gbps/USB 3.0/PCIe 3.0, UEFI support and the fast booting goodness it brings as well as performance improvements and far more overclockability.

Not really an absolute must-have for Nehalem owners but definitely for Core 2 owners. You'll probably want to upgrade when Skylake rolls around though

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For gaming? Almost nothing. Only in severe edge cases (e.g. Civ V) will you notice any improvement in framerates (I haven't seen a CPU showdown using frame timing, but I suspect that is so GPU dependent it'd be a wash).

For other tasks? A bit of an improvement to a massive improvement. Specifically, encoding video and rendering images. If you don't do either of these, you needn't bother upgrading, but if you do encode video (and I mean properly with x264 and a decent CRF, quicksync may be fast but the picture quality is shite) you will see improvements from upgrading.

 

one of the reasons I upgraded my core 2 proc, was I wanted to start playing with the new hyper-v stuff, only newer procs have the required virtualisation technologies.