I'm really waiting for these cards to appear. They might be a worthy upgrade to my HD 6870.
Any word on where they are arriving? I've read March, but still no news.
Right now, I'm running my HD 6870 with 1015mhz on the core and 1172mhz on the memory.
This is done with the Voltage slider maxed out, at 1.3v
Is there anyway to override this? I'd like to try a little more voltage to see where and how far this GPU goes.
I'm sure most of you are familiar with GPU-Z, but if you are not, take a look:
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
The thing is, until now I'm fairly sure there was no way to check memory usage on AMD GPUs, but possible on most recent NV GPUs, unless I'm missing something.
I just installed...
NOTE: Not sure if already posted, so if it has, I apologize.
Link
The extremely good piece of news, is that it is actually running on a P67 motherboard! :D:D
So the previous articles were indeed correct: Ivy is 100% compatible with Cougar Point Chipsets (P67, H67 and Z68).
Awesome!
UPDATE: After further research, it seems Ivy Bridge IS IN FACT compatible with Cougar Point Chipsets (P67 and H67, and even possibly Z68).
So, a couple of months ago, we had a source stating that IB CPUs would in fact work with P67 and H67 chipsets with a simple BIOS update.
But now...
I upgraded from a Q9550 and P5Q Pro to an i7 2600k and a P8P67 EVO, and I was wondering if it can last a few years down the road for future games.
For example, I was quite happy with my Q9550 @ 3.8ghz, and I know it could still last at least 2 years as a good gaming CPU.
I sold my LGA 775...