Intel Sandy Bridge - Why you should wait one month for a new PC!
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[QUOTE=Badal;27185887]Interesting tidbit from the Hardware Canucks review:
Based on a third-party's extensive testing of 100 retail D2 stepping processors, this is how Sandy Bridge is shaping up on the overclocking front:
* Approximately 50% of CPUs can go up to 4.4~4.5 GHz
* Approximately 40% of CPUs can go up to 4.6~4.7 GHz
* Approximately 10% of CPUs can go up to 4.8~5 GHz (50+ multipliers are about 2% of this group)
[editline]3rd January 2011[/editline]
The individual quality of your particular chip is going to decide what multiplier you can get.[/QUOTE]
huh.
So I guess I probably won't be getting my 5GHz, but oh well, I was too optimistic
I can be content with 4.5 GHz
Holy shit. As far as I'm concerned, this looks like this could piss on my E6300 and then set it on fire in a large pyrotechnics display. Does anyone know what the Australian price could be for the i5 2500K and the i7 2600K?
Probably around $330AUD for the i7 2600K
:siren: Sandy Bridge is the biggest disappointment of the year :siren:
[url]http://semiaccurate.com/2011/01/02/sandy-bridge-biggest-disapointment-year/[/url]
:downs:
Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit.
It looks like the i7 sandy bridge's aren't faring nearly as well as the i5s.
I wonder what the mobile CPUs will be like. Should've waited to get my new laptop!!!!!!
[editline]4th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=acds;27190720]:siren: Sandy Bridge is the biggest disappointment of the year :siren:
[url]http://semiaccurate.com/2011/01/02/sandy-bridge-biggest-disapointment-year/[/url]
:downs:[/QUOTE]
Wow. Half the review they are reviewing the integrated graphics card and ignoring the CPU.
[QUOTE=acds;27190720]:siren: Sandy Bridge is the biggest disappointment of the year :siren:
[URL]http://semiaccurate.com/2011/01/02/sandy-bridge-biggest-disapointment-year/[/URL]
:downs:[/QUOTE]
Oh god at the end, he's going "bwaa there's no binary crap I can just run, I have to compile from source bwaa, I'm too stupid to type ./configure, make and sudo make install bwaa".
I would like to see if the AMD Bulldozer can stand against Sandy Bridge.
[QUOTE=reapaninja;27181244]holy shit, people are getting decent overclocks with [I]that[/I]?[/QUOTE]
Holy fucking shit.
Why yet another new socket. Why.
[QUOTE=Strikebango;27192437]I would like to see if the AMD Bulldozer can stand against Sandy Bridge.[/QUOTE]
If you can hit 4 GHz on a small stock cooler like that...
I don't know how AMD will issue it's rebuttal.
Seriously there is some goddamn mysterious voodoo that Intel did on SB.
[editline]4th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Clavus;27193467]Why yet another new socket. Why.[/QUOTE]
Because this one is FUCKING AWESOME
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;27193497]Because this one is FUCKING AWESOME[/QUOTE]
The previous ones were awesome too, what's your point.
[QUOTE=Clavus;27193467]Why yet another new socket. Why.[/QUOTE]
Because evidently they are needed.
Sandy Bridge frightens me, because it's the beginning of the end for processors. Moore's law can't go on forever chaps, processors will reach that fabled 8nm mark and then, well, they might be nine times faster and nine times more power efficient than now, but hey, there on in, electron tunnelling means you can't make smaller working transistors. So you'd better all get your thinking caps on for solutions, because if Moore's law can be held true until it can no longer be held true, we've got, say, six years to come up with an answer. So, if you're sixteen and don't know what to study at university, or eighteen and studying physics or electronic engineering, please, for the sake of god and the future of computing, specialise in solid state physics.
[editline]4th January 2011[/editline]
I am not an intel recruitment rep.
[QUOTE=acds;27190720]:siren: Sandy Bridge is the biggest disappointment of the year :siren:
[url]http://semiaccurate.com/2011/01/02/sandy-bridge-biggest-disapointment-year/[/url]
:downs:[/QUOTE]
[quote]by Charlie Demerjian[/quote]
and then I stopped reading
Shouldn't these massive overclocks be taken with a grain of salt? I mean, these are review models so the binning is probably quite high right?
[QUOTE=ChristopherB;27198111]Shouldn't these massive overclocks be taken with a grain of salt? I mean, these are review models so the binning is probably quite high right?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Badal;27185887]Interesting tidbit from the Hardware Canucks review:
Based on a third-party's extensive testing of 100 retail D2 stepping processors, this is how Sandy Bridge is shaping up on the overclocking front:
* Approximately 50% of CPUs can go up to 4.4~4.5 GHz
* Approximately 40% of CPUs can go up to 4.6~4.7 GHz
* Approximately 10% of CPUs can go up to 4.8~5 GHz (50+ multipliers are about 2% of this group)
[editline]3rd January 2011[/editline]
The individual quality of your particular chip is going to decide what multiplier you can get.[/QUOTE]
Being able to simply go to 4.4 is incredible on air, from a low clock.
[QUOTE=Badal;27185887]Interesting tidbit from the Hardware Canucks review:
Based on a third-party's extensive testing of 100 retail D2 stepping processors, this is how Sandy Bridge is shaping up on the overclocking front:
* Approximately 50% of CPUs can go up to 4.4~4.5 GHz
* Approximately 40% of CPUs can go up to 4.6~4.7 GHz
* Approximately 10% of CPUs can go up to 4.8~5 GHz (50+ multipliers are about 2% of this group)
[editline]3rd January 2011[/editline]
The individual quality of your particular chip is going to decide what multiplier you can get.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit.
[editline]4th January 2011[/editline]
I don't like how they've simplified overclocking to the point of just moving one thing up until it's unstable and then stepping it down a couple of notches. I enjoyed taking hours to get the perfect settings for my Q9400. I guess those days are gone now, though.
[QUOTE=Flubadoo;27191335]Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit.
It looks like the i7 sandy bridge's aren't faring nearly as well as the i5s.
I wonder what the mobile CPUs will be like. Should've waited to get my new laptop!!!!!!
[editline]4th January 2011[/editline]
Wow. Half the review they are reviewing the integrated graphics card and ignoring the CPU.[/QUOTE]
Well, to be fair to that article the MAIN improvement of SB was supposed to be the huge improvement in integrated graphics. For the first time, the integrated GPU was supposed to make entry level videocards obsolete.
CPU performance upgrades are a given when a new CPU line comes out. It's only news when Intel or AMD bring out a new CPU line that doesn't have improved performance.
[QUOTE=RiotashumaV2;27179435]Wow, now my fucking 955 feels like a Pentium 2...[/QUOTE]
Seems like I'm going to buy a Pentium 2 after the 9.
I wonder who is going to be the first person to start selling these.
[QUOTE=Badal;27198653][/QUOTE]
Those are from a batch of CPUs ASUS has. It may not represent what we see in stores.
Holy shit. One of these babies to replace my i5 750 or a new set of peripherals...
Really need a mouse and keyboard... But then again. Dose specs. Dat price. I might sell my 750 to an unknowing individual and buy one of these :P
[QUOTE=MightyHaku;27207913]Holy shit. One of these babies to replace my i5 750 or a new set of peripherals...
Really need a mouse and keyboard... But then again. Dose specs. Dat price. I might sell my 750 to an unknowing individual and buy one of these :P[/QUOTE]
The i5 750 is still amazing. Why would you waste time and money on upgrading? People who upgrade for every generation of parts are idiots.
[QUOTE=dArKnEsS_2;27208124]The i5 750 is still amazing. Why would you waste time and money on upgrading? People who upgrade for every generation of parts are idiots.[/QUOTE]
Or people who aren't poor as fuck
hey, if he nets in an illiterate, he can get quite a lot of money off selling his i5 750 + mobo
[QUOTE=Jaehead;27208967]hey, if he nets in an illiterate, he can get quite a lot of money off selling his i5 750 + mobo[/QUOTE]
Yeah, this. Its a beast of a mobo, ASUS Mazimus III Formula. Its just such a shame Intel screwed people who bought lower end S1156 mobos and processors just a short while before announcement/release of these.
[QUOTE=PelPix123;27175976][url]http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1934536/intels-sandy-bridge-sucks-hollywood-drm[/url]
Was this posted yet?[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't worry about it - HDCP tried to do something like this, and it got cracked
Can't wait for these processors. I've saved my christmas money and I am going to build a new PC with Sandy Bridge when its out. Probably going for an i7, maybe an i5.
AMD releasing anything to compete?
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