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According to TechARP's anonymous sources, Intel will launch its new Ivy Bridge desktop processors this Friday with the actual release date coming April 29th.
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I'm interested to see if this is true. I've been holding off on upgrading my Core 2 Quad Q9550 for Ivy Bridge. Up until very recently I've not seen any reason to upgrade, but with games like Skyrim and SWTOR, I have been CPU bottlenecked so it's time to move on.
I'm sure I'd be quite happy with the i5-3570's performance (I have an i5-2500 development machine at work that feels really quick), but I wonder if one of the i7s would be worth the extra cost just to remain usable for longer. The Q9550 has been "good enough" for a lot longer than any previous generation of CPU I've owned, and I'd be willing to pay extra if I could get an Ivy Bridge CPU that would remain usable for 4 years.
I can't see them limiting the GPU side a lot between the i5-3570 & i5-3570K like that chart shows. Considering current Sandy Bridge parts use the HD Graphics 3000 naming scheme, having the multiplier-locked version with "HD Graphics 2500" seems out of place.
I hadn't though about it that way until I read your post, but damn my q9650 has been with me a while now. I also skipped sandybridge and have been waiting on ivybridge for about the past 6 months or so now that it's finally starting to show its age in new games. Personally I'll be after an i7-3770k.
OK, thanks. I would just go with non K for less money and up the frequency. I don't do massive OC anyway because there is not much to be gained from it.
and up the frequency.
Unfortunately, doesn't really work that way anymore. Can only get around 6% by raising the base clock. "FSB" overclocking died with Nehalem/Westmere.
wake me up when we get cpus with 16 cores or 10 ghz that intel promised aeons ago to be feasible by now.
I believe like SB (sandy bridge) the frequency will be pretty much locked or limited to not much more than the stock setting.
Yea, what happened to Moore's law?
TBH, I don't see that table as being anywhere near accurate, but I would love to be proven wrong. There is no flagship $1000 proc for review sites to ogle (Even SB-E got that, natch) and the pricing scheme is too compressed. I'm calling BS until I see them on the market at those prices.
Yea, what happened to Moore's law?
So the stock speeds have finally caught up with my overclocked i860. Not bad for a 2 year old $200 Microcenter CPU.
The 3770K + a new motherboard is still a little pricey for the 20%-30% best case overclock (on air) improvement I'd see.
I thought we were getting more PCIe lanes though
I'm still sporting woodcrest in my main rig... looking forward to some Ivy.
I thought we were getting more PCIe lanes though
wake me up when we get cpus with 16 cores or 10 ghz that intel promised aeons ago to be feasible by now.
Actually it looks like IB users may get the option of 133 MHz BCLK.
Are you sure your not confusing this with the 100MHz/133MHz option for the RAM divider?
fwiw, an ivybridge at 4GHz would likely outperform a 12+GHz pentium 4 so...
When the P4 came out, the P3 actually outperformed it when clocked at the same speed. Intel wanted to beat AMD in the speed race. AMD got to 1ghz first, hopefully they will find their way back on top someday. I been using AMD since their K6 series, had an intel 486dx2 before that. Now I'm looking at replacing my Phenom II 940BE with a i7-3930k.Yet you'd think that such a statement wouldn't need to be made, as I was certain everyone would have figured that out 10 years ago with the athlon CPUs.That being, clock rate does not directly equate to CPU power.
I've got an i7 SB and I just don't see the point of this as an upgrade? Where the hell are my 6-core CPUS with HT? I want to see 12 threads in my task manager before I upgrade. 4 cores seems so ancient to me now.
I've got an i7 SB and I just don't see the point of this as an upgrade? Where the hell are my 6-core CPUS with HT? I want to see 12 threads in my task manager before I upgrade. 4 cores seems so ancient to me now.