Insula Gilliganis
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Who gives a fuck what Tom says?
Perhaps Mrs Tom and Tom's kids?? But certainly none of us here.. unless we are related to Tom and/or are in his will!
Intel tells its partners that they can expect around 20 percent performance increase from Sandy Bridge, which is roughly the same gain that Sandy Bridge had over Nehalem based CPUs.
Ivy Bridge is expected to offer a 20 percent overall performance boost over comparable Sandy Bridge CPUs on the processing side.
The top 4C/8T model (the i7-3700K) will have a 77W TDP, down from the 95W TDP of the 2500K and 2600K. 22nm Quad-cores with TDPs of as low as 45W will also be available.
Seems like the prudent thing to do is wait another 4-5 months and pick up an Ivy Bridge CPU. That 20% performance boost plus hopefully higher overclocking ability than Sandy Bridge should erase much of the 3960X's dominance in multi-threaded applications.. and for a lot less $.