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Sandy-Bridge E Set to release November

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timtheenchantor

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Intel looks to be pushing the release of the Sandy Bridge-E to mid to late November (Nov. 15 - Nov. 27).

According to information coming out of DonanimHaber, Intel is set to release the new Sandy Bridge-E in late November, between the 15th to 27th, which is ahead of the original December date (or the rumored delay of 2012). Motherboards based on Intel's new X79 express chipset should be released shortly before the release of the processors.

Intel will begin the Sandy Bridge-E platform with the release of the Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition 6-core unlocked processor, Core i7-3930K 6-core unlocked processor, and Core i7-3820 4-core processor. The expected prices for the new processors, at release, look to be set at $999 (Core i7-3960X), $583 (Core i7-3930K) and $294 (Core i7-3820).

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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sandy-bridge-e-core-i-x79-express-processor,13387.html
 
Good timing for Intel. People waiting on bulldozer to finally release can just wait one more month for SB-E. I am very happy with my current i7-920, but a few months after SB-E gets released (bug fixes) I will likely upgrade.
 
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So they seem to have dropped the number of ports on the SAS controller from 8 to 4 (thereby dropping the total ports from 14 to 10)
 
What's the deal with lack of USB 3.0 and PCIe 3.0, are we going to see upgrades at any point?
 
Anybody else think its funny that Intel is about to put out its 50th round of processors in the time its taken AMD to put out 1.....and its probably going to be delayed again.
 
MacLeod said:
Anybody else think its funny that Intel is about to put out its 50th round of processors in the time its taken AMD to put out 1.....and its probably going to be delayed again.
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Funny? No.

Disappointing. YES.
 
Great timing, would love to see how this compares with bulldozer on my next upgrade.
 
So, um, what...another motherboard upgrade? You gotta be kidding me...I just bought a Z68.
 
spacing guild said:
So, um, what...another motherboard upgrade? You gotta be kidding me...I just bought a Z68.
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Well socket 1155 is designed to be the "mid range" and 2011 designed to be the "high end/ workstation".

But I think with every generation that goes on, the line between mid range and high end begins to blur. The difference (for things that didn't benefit the hyper threading) between the i7 920 and the i5 750 wasn't all that massive in most situations.
 
spacing guild said:
So, um, what...another motherboard upgrade? You gotta be kidding me...I just bought a Z68.
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You can sell your current motherboard for 75% of what you paid for it if you really think going to lga2011 is enough of an upgrade to warrant >2 times the cost.
 
Still no USB3 still? Come on Intel, seriously, you need to move forward. And I would prefer to see all the SATA ports at 6GB, who cares about 3GB if SATA3 is backwards compatible with SATA2.

And get rid of PCI as well, no point of placing that on a high end socket when nobody is going to use it.
 
thats actually a really old picture, and as you can see it doesn't specify pci-e 2 or 3 on there and other pictures released with this picture have it showing as pci-e 3, and its from dominhaber which just wants hits for their website and happens to put their watermark in places making it hard to read the actual picture. As for us not using the bandwidth of pci-e 2 thats just wrong, i'll go try to find the picture of how it limits a 480.
http://media.bestofmicro.com/S/D/256333/original/image008.png albeit at high resolutions, but still, if i can limit a 480, theres no doubt in my mind that i will eventually matter for 1920x1200 or x1080 which the majority of new monitors have.
 
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John Vuong said:
Still no USB3 still? Come on Intel, seriously, you need to move forward. And I would prefer to see all the SATA ports at 6GB, who cares about 3GB if SATA3 is backwards compatible with SATA2.

And get rid of PCI as well, no point of placing that on a high end socket when nobody is going to use it.
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+1

I don think i will be upgrading if INTEL does not provide USB 3.0 and all SATA 6ports!!

But either ways this the performance of the Intel Core i7 3960x is interesting!
 
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German Muscle said:
Even if Intel motherboards dont have PCI-E v3.0 or USB3.0 the other manufacturers will.
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That isn't the point. People don't care about the Intel motherboards they are referring to the Intel chipsets (which all boards use). We want to chipset to support that stuff. If it doesn't, that means the use of 3rd party chipsets which is not desirable. That's just for USB 3, you won't see PCIe 3.0 on a third party chipset.
 
RamonGTP said:
That isn't the point. People don't care about the Intel motherboards they are referring to the Intel chipsets (which all boards use). We want to chipset to support that stuff. If it doesn't, that means the use of 3rd party chipsets which is not desirable. That's just for USB 3, you won't see PCIe 3.0 on a third party chipset.
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Isnt MSI making a Z68 board with PCI-Express 3.0? I didnt think the Z68 supported PCI-E 3.0 natively.
 
RamonGTP said:
That isn't the point. People don't care about the Intel motherboards they are referring to the Intel chipsets (which all boards use). We want to chipset to support that stuff. If it doesn't, that means the use of 3rd party chipsets which is not desirable. That's just for USB 3, you won't see PCIe 3.0 on a third party chipset.
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Chipset (native) support is far better than 3rd party support.

I'm still baffled why INTEL wont include native support for USB 3.0 or PCIe 3.0
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It's probably because there's only one company that has passed USB 3.0 certification, and it's not Intel.
 
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