IB for socket 1155 this spring?

[DooKey]

Signs are pointing to a spring release of IB for socket 1155. I'm really hoping for a hexacore IB for around $500. Anyone else holding out for these over the SB-E?

IB hexes should rock for DC. Not to mention how well they will game.

 

[silicide]

I'm either holding out for IBE or switching over to something g34-based for my next build. SNB-E isn't bad, but I'm not too impressed.

 

[86 5.0L]

I'm either holding out for IBE or switching over to something g34-based for my next build. SNB-E isn't bad, but I'm not too impressed.

this

 

[Zink]

There won't be any 1155 IB cpus with more than 4 cores. There will be 2011 IB-E cpus with 6 or 8 cores but it's up to AMD to get Intel to bring the price down from $600. SB-E is really the 8 core Xeon with 2 cores disabled so maybe we can find some $500 8 core ES Xeons to OC. I wonder how 16 x 4.5Ghz cores with quad channel memory would run on an SR-3.

 

[jebo_4jc]

I can answer that: like sex

 

[Patriot]

There won't be any 1155 IB cpus with more than 4 cores. There will be 2011 IB-E cpus with 6 or 8 cores but it's up to AMD to get Intel to bring the price down from $600. SB-E is really the 8 core Xeon with 2 cores disabled so maybe we can find some $500 8 core ES Xeons to OC. I wonder how 16 x 4.5Ghz cores with quad channel memory would run on an SR-3.

I can answer that: like sex

but it gets better... Asus has declared it will make a SR-3 killer...

 

[Filter]

but it gets better... Asus has declared it will make a SR-3 killer...

i say bring it on

 

[cactus]

With the power draw the new EE chip is drawing, dual OC'd 8 core chips are going to be one good space heater.

 

[Kendrak]

I find it funny how well the current 4P systems have held up with all this stuff flying at them.

Keep in mind, no 16 threads, no play in the -bigadv playground. So a basic (1366/G34) 2p system is a very nice option still.

 

[Activate: AMD]

but it gets better... Asus has declared it will make a SR-3 killer...

pfft, they don't have the cajones to do it

 

[Zink]

I find it funny how well the current 4P systems have held up with all this stuff flying at them.

It's pretty amazing how little power they draw for the performance you get. Heavily overclocked 8 core SB-E cpus probably draw close to 400W each.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

There won't be any 1155 IB cpus with more than 4 cores. There will be 2011 IB-E cpus with 6 or 8 cores but it's up to AMD to get Intel to bring the price down from $600. SB-E is really the 8 core Xeon with 2 cores disabled so maybe we can find some $500 8 core ES Xeons to OC. I wonder how 16 x 4.5Ghz cores with quad channel memory would run on an SR-3.

i don't think theres anything AMD could actually release to bring the price down. the name recognition intel has over AMD alone allows them to keep the prices at the level they are now. the only way intel would possibly consider dropping prices is if sales were hurting and honestly SB-E/IB-E sales don't mean crap to intel. what intel cares about is LGA-1155 sales because volume sales are where the real money is.

 

[TYoda]

i don't think theres anything AMD could actually release to bring the price down. the name recognition intel has over AMD alone allows them to keep the prices at the level they are now. the only way intel would possibly consider dropping prices is if sales were hurting and honestly SB-E/IB-E sales don't mean crap to intel. what intel cares about is LGA-1155 sales because volume sales are where the real money is.

Yeah, thats about the tall and short of it. The only way Intel would care is if AMD actually had a product that could compete with SB-E/IB-E and they don't/won't its looking like. Heck, who knows what will happen over at AMD with this botched bulldozer launch...

 

[Nathan_P]

I find it funny how well the current 4P systems have held up with all this stuff flying at them.

Keep in mind, no 16 threads, no play in the -bigadv playground. So a basic (1366/G34) 2p system is a very nice option still.

Kendrak, I just posted this at FF, i've C&P as i know some of us don't like it over there, deadline contractions will need to be managed carefully whether we have 16 or 24 threads:-

Halving the current deadlines is going to exclude an awful lot of hardware that fits the bill.

Here is some basic and quick math

Current deadlines are 4 days, 5 days and 5.6 days for 6900/1, 6903 and 6904 respectively.
Halving them gives 2 days, 2.5 days and 2.8 days respectively.
TPF need to be lower than 28 minutes, 36 minutes and 40m15s respectively for QRB to apply

Now my fast 24 thread machine has the following TPF

13m50s for 6900/6901 Fine no problems
28m29s for 6903 Cutting it close
41m20s for 6904 Misses the deadline

Now this machine has 2 x5670 xeon processors running @2.93Ghz + turbo under linux for max performance. This is not exactly what anyone can possibly call slow. To exclude such a machine from 6904 does not bode well for many other bigadv folders running dual socket machines, as there are more than a few (including me) who have slower hex cores in their machines (e.g L5640). It would also exclude almost all 16 thread machines from 6903/4.

So reduce the deadlines by all means, that is what has been decided - however PG need to be cautious as to how far they can go.

 

[CEpeep]

it's up to AMD to get Intel to bring the price down from $600

Don't wait up.

 

[jebo_4jc]

Now this machine has 2 x5670 xeon processors running @2.93Ghz + turbo under linux for max performance. This is not exactly what anyone can possibly call slow. To exclude such a machine from 6904 does not bode well for many other bigadv folders running dual socket machines, as there are more than a few (including me) who have slower hex cores in their machines (e.g L5640). It would also exclude almost all 16 thread machines from 6903/4.

So reduce the deadlines by all means, that is what has been decided - however PG need to be cautious as to how far they can go.

Perhaps bigbeta 6903 and 6904 are being reserved for only the uber fast machines. 4P and overclocked 2P only.

 

[nwrtarget]

Cutting the deadlines makes much sense for bigadv.
It gets them the units that they want done fast, done fast.
If the machine who gets it can't get it done it gets reassigned sooner instead of later.

And to Nathan's point if they do cut them in half I will pretty much be out of the bigadv business with rare exception.