Intel Sandy Bridge - Why you should wait one month for a new PC!
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Great, more things to add to Project Horizon.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;27243971]Great, more things to add to Project Horizon.[/QUOTE]
Project Horizon was about a base on the moon I thought, what does that have to do with this?
[QUOTE=Badal;27262127]Project Horizon was about a base on the moon I thought, what does that have to do with this?[/QUOTE]
It's also the codename of a game I'm developing, which is essentially "pokemon, except replace the furry critters with computers". While working on it, I compiled a detailed database of pretty much every PC processor ever made, from the 8088 to the i7. And, now, I have added the Sandy Bridge lineup to the database.
So I'm stumped. Get this or wait for Bulldozer?
There hasn't been much news at all about bulldozers, so it's up to you
[QUOTE=PyroCF;27262491]So I'm stumped. Get this or wait for Bulldozer?[/QUOTE]
It usually pays to wait, but Bulldozer isn't coming for a while.
Intel Sandy Bridge - Why would you want DRM in your CPU? Because it can reach 4.5GHz on air.
To be honest, even though the speeds are amazing, I'll stick with a manufacturer that doesn't want to fuck its customers over with DRM.
The DRM on these CPUs are not half as intrusive as people make it out to be.
[QUOTE=nikomo;27264176]Intel Sandy Bridge - Why would you want DRM in your CPU? Because it can reach 4.5GHz on air.
To be honest, even though the speeds are amazing, I'll stick with a manufacturer that doesn't want to fuck its customers over with DRM.[/QUOTE]
For the last fucking time, it is not DRM in the traditional sense.
Thanks to Ama-zake for this info:
Intel Insider is a service that enables consumers to enjoy premium Hollywood feature films streamed to their PC in high quality 1080P high definition. Currently this service does not exist because the movie studios are concerned about protecting their content, and making sure that it cannot be stolen or used illegally. So Intel created Intel insider, an extra layer of content protection. Think of it as an armoured truck carrying the movie from the Internet to your display, it keeps the data safe from pirates, but still lets you enjoy your legally acquired movie in the best possible quality. This technology is built into the new Intel chips and will become even more important once wireless display technology like Intel’s WiDi become more popular, as it would prevent pirates from stealing movies remotely just by snooping the airwaves. WiDi enables you to wirelessly beam video to your big screen TV easily and in HD.
[url]http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2011/01/intel_insider_-_what_is_it_no.php[/url]
[QUOTE=nikomo;27264176]Intel Sandy Bridge - Why would you want DRM in your CPU? Because it can reach 4.5GHz on air.
To be honest, even though the speeds are amazing, I'll stick with a manufacturer that doesn't want to fuck its customers over with DRM.[/QUOTE]
Going by the results of DRM thus far, it will be broken. It's only a matter of time.
Emphasis on this from the Intel article:
"There have been stories describing Intel Insider as a ‘DRM’ technology. DRM means ‘Digital Rights Management’ and is used to control the use of digital media by controlling access, and preventing the ability to copy media such as movies. This means that if you pay only a rental fee, your service provider decides when and for how long you will be able to view your movie. Or if you buy a film it will let you keep and view it forever, but not copy it and share it with your friends, or burn it onto a DVD, mass produce it and sell it on the streets. DRM is a piece of software, not hardware.
Now there are opponents and proponents of DRM, and I am not going to get into a discussion about the pros and cons of DRM in this blog; but I will say that Intel Insider is NOT a DRM technology."
It's not that it'll be used for secure content or that it will be broken.
I just can't trust a company that's willing to shaft their customers by having something like this on the chip.
How the fuck is it not DRM if Hollywood can control who can and cannot access the content?
also if it's that important to you, Sandy Bridge can't stop you from downloading pirated movies/games etc.
I mean, if what Intel is doing is what Ubisoft tried to do last year, then I can understand, but seriously, if Intel didn't tell you about this, you wouldn't even know that it was there in the first place.
[QUOTE=nikomo;27265169]It's not that it'll be used for secure content or that it will be broken.
I just can't trust a company that's willing to shaft their customers by having something like this on the chip.
How the fuck is it not DRM if Hollywood can control who can and cannot access the content?[/QUOTE]
If by "shafting consumers" you mean "allowing a new way to stream high definition movies" then yes. It is really not all that different from HDCP.
[QUOTE=nikomo;27265169]It's not that it'll be used for secure content or that it will be broken.
I just can't trust a company that's willing to shaft their customers by having something like this on the chip.
How the fuck is it not DRM if Hollywood can control who can and cannot access the content?[/QUOTE]
Because it's totally "shafting" the customers who do things legally, right? Sounds to me like someone has a dirty habit.
It seems people forget they cannot trust big companies.
Something like this can be used for other purposes than the one it was used for.
Something like this already happened before, nothing big happened, basically nobody knows about it, and it got cracked
the only reason why people know about this is because Intel publicized it a lot more
For the record, AMD has had "DRM" embedded on their chips since 2007, although it's the same case of it not really being DRM you should be freaking out about.
[url]http://www.infoworld.com/t/hardware/content-in-lockdown-199[/url]
I need to consider moving to ARM, x86 and x86-64 seems to be a tad too restricted to me.
[QUOTE=nikomo;27268355]I need to consider moving to ARM, x86 and x86-64 seems to be a tad too restricted to me.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, about that. ARM has been doing that since 2006 as well.
[url]http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/12042.php[/url]
PowerPC?
PS3 just got fucked and can run Linux.
[QUOTE=nikomo;27268869]PowerPC?
PS3 just got fucked and can run Linux.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure SPARC is still DRM-free. And there's always m68k.
Are there any benchmarks for the i3?
[editline]8th January 2011[/editline]
Woah, damn, the i3 performs better than the i5-750 in games! YES!
They're sending me a Sandy Bridge i7 for review soon, I love Intel's PR guys now.
[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;27274883]They're sending me a Sandy Bridge i7 for review soon, I love Intel's PR guys now.[/QUOTE]
Keep it and steal it.
[QUOTE=Flubadoo;27274918]Keep it and steal it.[/QUOTE]
Ummm, I assume they'll let me keep a processor just like AMD has. No one would request a processor that has been used by a reviewer in benchmarking and everything.
SHOULD we be seeing the CPU's and motherboards on let's say Newegg exactly on the 9th? Or does anyone know if it's going to take any extra time. Anxious to get the overall price with a motherboard.
[QUOTE=static829;27293390]SHOULD we be seeing the CPU's and motherboards on let's say Newegg exactly on the 9th? Or does anyone know if it's going to take any extra time. Anxious to get the overall price with a motherboard.[/QUOTE]
Unless it's a paper launch, yes we should.
I hate paper launches so much.
1 hour to go.
2 hours for me, I'm not going to be getting one anytime soon though. :saddowns:
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