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Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge-E Availability Thread

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Newegg has Ivy Bridge-E in stock.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007671%20600217725%20600458197&IsNodeId=1&name=Ivy%20Bridge-E

I ordered a Intel Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E.:D
Order Summary
Sales Order Number: 139700 (RushOrder)
Sales Order Date: 9/9/2013 11:09:07 PM
Shipping Method: Newegg 3Day

1 x ($1049.99) Intel Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E 3.6GHz (Turbo 4GH

Subtotal: $1049.99

Tax: $0.00

Shipping and Handling: $0.00

Rush Order: $2.99

Total Amount: $1052.98

Rampage IV Extreme BIOS 4403 Support Intel IVB-E series CPU.
http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=Rampage%20IV%20Extreme&p=1&s=42&os=30&hashedid=r7FZemJak3vMbWHg
 
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I'm gonna wait and see how the 4820ks fare before upgrading my 3820
 
Ugh. I want a 4930 but I need a motherboard too. I wonder when the new Asus boards will show up.
 
Will older boards boot with IB-E or do you have to have a SB-E chip handy to update the BIOS?
 
DeathFromBelow said:
Will older boards boot with IB-E or do you have to have a SB-E chip handy to update the BIOS?
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I asked the same question Asus tech support, while ago when I thought I'd grab a cheap P9X79 PRO board from sale, but they were no sales and I'd probably get gold black colored version anyway.
They send this as a reply.
After further checking with the relative department, the 41XX bios versions on our website can boot up the i7-4820K, but won't support all function of this cpu.
But the formal bios supporting this cpu will be released on our website, maybe in one month.

Best Regards,
Carter
ASUS Product Support Team
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BIOS revision is printed on MB, in case you need to know the BIOS revision that was shipped with MB. Thus it looks you can boot any 4xxx BIOS without much problem and do BIOS upgrade without Sandy-E.
In addition, some Asus boards support BIOS upgrade without CPU and RAM installed on board, thus BIOS upgrade on high end Asus boards should be relatively trivial.
 
Waiting on some new motherboards, before pulling the trigger on a 4930k.
 
Raghar said:
I asked the same question Asus tech support, while ago when I thought I'd grab a cheap P9X79 PRO board from sale, but they were no sales and I'd probably get gold black colored version anyway.
They send this as a reply.

BIOS revision is printed on MB, in case you need to know the BIOS revision that was shipped with MB. Thus it looks you can boot any 4xxx BIOS without much problem and do BIOS upgrade without Sandy-E.
In addition, some Asus boards support BIOS upgrade without CPU and RAM installed on board, thus BIOS upgrade on high end Asus boards should be relatively trivial.
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Thanks.

Decisions, decisions... I guess I might as well just wait a few days for the new boards to show up. The black PCB on the X79-Deluxe looks nice, though I'm not too keen on the gold heatsinks.
 
Amazon has no stock on the 4820's or the 4930k's, says 2 to 4 weeks. I believe there are a few 4960's left on Amazon.

Picked up a 4930k from Newegg. Thought about the 4960x, but then I remembered I needed more disk space so I grabbed an 840 pro instead
 
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I paid $399 in store for the 3930k in Cambridge MA about a year and a half ago-

Does anyone know if MC still has the in store deal on intel chips? (I called to confirm the availability of Ivy-E in stock today)
 
AthlonXP said:
Looks like Microcenter has them for sale now as well.
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Yup. It's on sale for $549.99, at my local mc in houston. Hopefully there will be some new mobo's to pick from this week.

Edit: The $50 off mc motherboard bundles are active with ivy-e.
 
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Bought my 4930k from the egg, would of preferred Amazon but says 2-4 weeks shipping :/

"Ship date 09/10/2013
Estimated delivery 09/11/2013"

<3
 
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You guys are lucky in Canada we are being fleeced with modest 50 to 200 bucks surcharge. I think its bad deal since all you get is very little return over 3960x and 3930K since they don't overclock better than previous.
 
Night_Hawk-19 said:
You guys are lucky in Canada we are being fleeced with modest 50 to 200 bucks surcharge. I think its bad deal since all you get is very little return over 3960x and 3930K since they don't overclock better than previous.
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SB-E could go to 5GHz, but I don't think a lot of people were pushing them that far for day-to-day use, ~4.6 GHz is more realistic. At 4.5 GHz Ivy Bridge E offers equal performance while using less power/running cooler.

It would be silly to upgrade from Sandy Bridge E to Ivy Bridge E, but buying new I don't think it makes much sense to buy the old chips unless you get a good discount. Prices seem to have actually spiked on the SB-E parts over the past week, I know they went up on Amazon.
 
Is there a problem pairing a 4930k with the Asus p9x79 pro? The website shows support with the latest bios, but I'm not sure if features are left out...
 
deasnutz said:
Is there a problem pairing a 4930k with the Asus p9x79 pro? The website shows support with the latest bios, but I'm not sure if features are left out...
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So long as your BIOS is the latest one from Asus, mine is 4403 for the Rampage IV, then you should be fine. I don't believe you'll lose any features as Ivy-E doesn't really add anything over SB-E except for a better memory controller, lower power draw, and valid pci 3.0 support.
 
Shogon said:
So long as your BIOS is the latest one from Asus, mine is 4403 for the Rampage IV, then you should be fine. I don't believe you'll lose any features as Ivy-E doesn't really add anything over SB-E except for a better memory controller, lower power draw, and valid pci 3.0 support.
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We're you able to boot into the bios to flash it with a ivy-b CPU?

Also, does 49**k boxed ship with fan/heatsink?
 
deasnutz said:
We're you able to boot into the bios to flash it with a ivy-b CPU?

Also, does 49**k boxed ship with fan/heatsink?
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Well yes, thing is though I have a 3820 in my Rampage 4 and I bought that many months ago. From previous experiences (running a E5620/w3680 in a X58 Classified) if the board didn't have a capable bios to support the CPU it wouldn't boot (also revision number in my case). At this point though I would hope all the boards were updated so they can suppoort Ivy-E right away.

Far as the heatsink, it's weird because look at the product page.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116939

"Cooling Device Heatsink and Fan included"
 
Gonna wait a bit. I jumped on when C1 of last one was out only to have a bug in VT-D and had to go to C2. No offer of replacement. This time I will wait a few months till reaches $999.99 price point.
 
Night_Hawk-19 said:
Gonna wait a bit. I jumped on when C1 of last one was out only to have a bug in VT-D and had to go to C2. No offer of replacement. This time I will wait a few months till reaches $999.99 price point.
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The VT-D bug was found a month or so before the original SB-E chips/X79 launched and Intel made it clear that the initial chips did not support it...
 
Firepac said:
Damn can't decide to get that or this
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The ASUS board seems to have more features (WiFi, two more SATA 6 GB/s ports). It's also ATX rather than E-ATX. It seems kinda hard to justify $50 more for the EVGA, $350 is already pushing the limit of what I'd be willing to pay for a motherboard.

Is it just me or have motherboard prices inflated drastically in the last couple years? I don't remember seeing $400-500 boards until recently. I had an ASUS Rampage Formula back in the socket 775 days and IIRC I spent around $300 on it.
 
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