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sandy bridge

lehmann, you have a dry cleaning bill headed your way.
 
Naw he just needs to go home and change.

Spot the Justin Timberlake cameo.
 
Oh wow........

Do you guys know if these upcoming Sandy Bridges will be compatible with the current LGA1156 motherboards that some of you are running Lynnfields on?
 
If there's a SB SR-2 (SR-3?) that houses 2 of them and can still hit 5.2ghz per core, THEN I'll crap my pants. Until then I'm still smiling fondly at my 24 cores @ 3.6. :)
Dunno about you guys, but I'd rather have the cores than the mhz. ;)
Impressive, nonetheless.
 
tjmagneto said:
You're catching on...
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As both a stockholder(very small one) and a consumer, it does upset me that AMD is unable to put up enough of a challenge right now to force Intel from doing this type of crap. I am starting to think it is just wishful thinking, but I do hope Intel gets bitch-slapped into Oblivion when Bulldozer comes out.
 
amdgamer said:
<snip> ......but I do hope Intel gets bitch-slapped into Oblivion when Bulldozer comes out.
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Ha!

I'd like that... but not very probable. I used to enjoy the fact that they kept each other {mostly} honest and competitive.
 
amdgamer said:
Oh, I thought that was a typo on their part. Wow, Intel sucks...........
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The technology differences between the Sandy Bridge platform and the LGA1156 platform are pretty considerable. Even if they kept the socket, they wouldn't have been compatible. This way, they at least avoid the confusion that would ensue if some LGA1156 boards were only compatible with Nehalem chips and some only with Sandy Bridge.
 
The Q9550 was the second Intel chip I owned.
The first being a 486 DX 66.
AMD was the only CPU I would buy, because of the Intel/AMD agreement that Intel broke.
But now AMD is playing catchup in a canoe!
I too hope that the Bulldozer is a competitive CPU.
 
was that why intel had to pay AMD a billion dollars. think it was that much? i too am rooting for bulldozer as compition is great for the consumer.
 
Zero82z said:
Which agreement was that?
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Memory is fuzzy, but I tell you what I remember.

Intel and AMD worked together to build the 386 processor. Early 1990's.
Intel completed the project and started selling the 386 processors and didn't stare the final results with AMD.
AMD finally finished the project, but it was too late.
Intel had made there mark as the top CPU in the industry.
Since then AMD chips have always been behind.
Until the Athlon came out and AMD surged ahead.
Intel then went a different direction with the CoreDuo's and the rest is history.

It's like Microsoft stealing O/S ideas from Apple.
Make billions and pay millions in patient infringements. GOOD BUSINESS!!!!
 
I loved my AMD 386/DX-40 -- one of my favorite CPUs of all time.
 
Zero82z said:
The technology differences between the Sandy Bridge platform and the LGA1156 platform are pretty considerable. Even if they kept the socket, they wouldn't have been compatible. This way, they at least avoid the confusion that would ensue if some LGA1156 boards were only compatible with Nehalem chips and some only with Sandy Bridge.
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Extremely different architecture. Make no mistake, this is a totally new CPU. Backwards compatibility would have been impossible.
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SBx4-1.jpg


2x SB octo-core (16T) running cinebench
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zero2dash said:
If there's a SB SR-2 (SR-3?) that houses 2 of them and can still hit 5.2ghz per core, THEN I'll crap my pants. Until then I'm still smiling fondly at my 24 cores @ 3.6. :)
Dunno about you guys, but I'd rather have the cores than the mhz. ;)
Impressive, nonetheless.
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you will want to wait for LGA-2011.. theres no reason for anyone to release/buy a dual socket LGA-1155 since the sandy bridge xeons will be lga-2011 with quad channel DDR3. but those wont be out til middle of next year so expect another year and a half after that for an SR-2 like board. but i wouldnt hold my breath on it since the brains of the SR-2 dont work for EVGA anymore.

@firas wheres the rest of the link? picture means nothing without a link. theres been fakes screen caps of the bulldozer since 2009 and we all know AMD never had a bulldozer core tapped out let alone ES models in 2009. so it wouldnt be that hard to slap in dual xeon quads and go, "hey look at me i have 2 sandy bridges running cinbench11.5!!!" since theres nothing in the image that says its a sandy bridge. dont want to say your a liar but im holding a bucket of salt without a link here.. linky linky dangit before my head explodes!!! :D
 
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firas said:
that&#8217;s all what the guy at XS mentioned. but I found the source
http://forum.coolaler.com/showthread.php?t=251959
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thanks. looks interesting but not all that much faster @ 3.4ghz and he didnt show any benchmarks with it at 5ghz.. besides superPI which only shows its 2 1/2 seconds faster with a 1.6ghz overclock.. i can gain almost 2 seconds just going from 3 to 3.6ghz. so the actually scaling makes me wonder. still wouldnt take it with the dual channel memory though.

thing that amazes me though is hes not even running 1v to get that overclock..
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
thing that amazes me though is hes not even running 1v to get that overclock..
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ouch
less than a volt means more amps to get the same wattage. Motherboards power systems have to increase in capability that much more to efficiently step 12 volts down to less than 1. They are challenged in that area already so our PSU are going to have to produce that many more amps to get it done with Sandy.
 
nwrtarget said:
They are challenged in that area already so our PSU are going to have to produce that many more amps to get it done with Sandy.
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No. CPU power is provided by the +12V rail. It doesn't matter what voltage the CPU uses; the PSU will still have to supply the same amount of current for a given amount of power consumption. The only difference is the amount of current the motherboard's voltage regulation circuitry will have to handle.
 
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