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Worth it to wait for IB?

pxc said:
No, he is correct. :p From the Intel slides that have been coming out since 2006:

65nm
Presler - Tick
Conroe - Tock

45nm
Penryn - Tick
Nehalem - Tock

32nm
Westmere - Tick
Sandy Bridge - Tock

http://www.overclockers.com.au/articles/726776/ticktockmodel.jpg

22nm
Ivy Bridge - Tick
Haswell - Tock

http://www.diit.cz/data/images/43524.jpg

and the future:
14nm
Broadwell - Tick
Skylake - Tock

10nm
Skymont - Tick (~2016)
??? - Tock

It's just an arbitrary notation anyways. Ticks are a new process and tocks are a new microarchitecture. It does emphasize that a new uarch has a lower risk since it's on an existing process.
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Tick is a new microarchitecture and Tock is a die shrink. The 2nd generation of Intel® Core™ processor like the Intel Core i5-2500K has a new microarchitecture.
 
IntelEnthusiast said:
Tick is a new microarchitecture and Tock is a die shrink. The 2nd generation of Intel® Core™ processor like the Intel Core i5-2500K has a new microarchitecture.
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Palm-face collision imminent.

If you didn't want to read the words you quoted, the matter is settled in Intel's own slides from the past 5+ years. Two slides covering tick-tock from P4 Presler (tick, a shrink) to Haswell (tock, a new uarch after SNB) are linked in what you quoted.

Again: "tick" is a new process (shrink), "tock" is a new uarch. That's not according to me, it's according to Intel itself which defined it that way in the tick-tock cadence.

edit: thanks RamonGTP. I still expect to see a disagreement since that doesn't match the notion a couple of people embrace. ;)
 
Ok guys I am sorry my mistake I had it backwards. I had always referred to a new microarchitecture as a “Tick” to start the advancement out. While the “Tock” would have been the die shrink which is would have followed on. In reality the “Tick, Tock” business plan came out when we released a die shrink and that became the starting point.
 
Also just in time for IB:
Intel has recently notified its partners that the company will fully release its Thunderbolt technology in April of 2012 with several first-tier PC players already preparing to launch Thunderbolt-supported motherboards, notebooks and desktop PCs, according to sources from PC players
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pxc said:
Palm-face collision imminent.

If you didn't want to read the words you quoted, the matter is settled in Intel's own slides from the past 5+ years. Two slides covering tick-tock from P4 Presler (tick, a shrink) to Haswell (tock, a new uarch after SNB) are linked in what you quoted.

Again: "tick" is a new process (shrink), "tock" is a new uarch. That's not according to me, it's according to Intel itself which defined it that way in the tick-tock cadence.

edit: thanks RamonGTP. I still expect to see a disagreement since that doesn't match the notion a couple of people embrace. ;)
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End of the day, IB is just a refresh
 
How fast is your current computer ?

If you have acceptable performance (overclocked socket 775 or AMD quad) I'd wait.

If you are running some dual core or sempren/celeron upgrade - you lose minimal benefits (pci-ex 3.0 is gimmick, so is native support for usb3) and probably like 10-15% performance due to lower overclocking but you get at least 4 months of good performance.
 
The tick is always better than the preceding tock. It's the forthcoming tock that's the game-changer.
 
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