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Join Date: 2010-05-10 Member: 71700Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2010-05-10 Member: 71700Members, Reinforced - Shadow
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Sandy bridges will be kind of outdated and dropped in price but they are still nearly as strong as the Ivys.
Just saying...
I recommend getting lga1156
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I sincerely doubt that, maybe in six month the prices will drop. But knowing Intel, the Ivy Bridge cores will be introduced at higher prices vs the Sandy Bridge.
Besides isn't not like Sandy bridge is going to be outdated. They are beastly CPU's, the Ivy Bridge is just a small upgrade in terms of sizing it down even further (35nm to 22nm) This will produce less heat due to lower power consumption and my guess is, it will give about 5% more overclocking potential
Currently the i7-2600k and the i5-2500k are the best ones out there (price/performance/OC potential). Their Ivy counterparts the i7-3770K and the i5-3570K, will most likely be higher priced. And at stock speeds they will not give you a lot of performance gain, both are only a measly +100Mhz vs their Sandy Bridge counterpart, nothing to write home about :P
Also they are going to be released on the LGA 1155 socket, like the second gen i3, i5 and i7 (Sandy Bridge). The LGA 1156 socket is actually an older socket for the first gen i3, i5 and i7 (Lynnfield and Clarkdale). The 1555 is it's successor and there is no backwards compatibility between LGA 1555 and LGA 1556 :)
Sorry I confused the sockets...
BUT: as far is I am informed Intel "promised"/<a href="http://chinese.vr-zone.com/13390/intel-ivy-bridge-come-early-03312012/" target="_blank">announced </a>to price their new CPUs the same as the <a href="http://ark.intel.com/products/52214/Intel-Core-i7-2600K-Processor-%288M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz%29" target="_blank">current </a>generation. So Ivys would just replace the Sandys. Of course what I said above (recommending Sandy) isn't a secret knowledge - the retailers also knowit - and the demand for Sandys may be as high after Ivy release as it is now so the price could indeed stay the same and the Ivys would be just more expensive.
I'm not sure if the "announced" price is official or still a rumor though.
I miss the good old Athlon(XP) and Barton days...
get something like that.
its so worth it.
OC your proc (they are all designed to these days anyways) and reap the massive fps rewards!
also dont forget ram and 64 bit.
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get something like that.
its so worth it.
OC your proc (they are all designed to these days anyways) and reap the massive fps rewards!
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Or you could go with a Thermalright Silver Arrow or Noctua DH-14, if you want to keep on air. I'm running a 2500k at 4.5GHz with the silverarrow. The only downside is that these air coolers are huge, so you need to check RAM clearances and case spacing before you get one.
End i3 right now)
So back on topic. Anyone have one they want to sell? Haha make some money before the 3xxx cores come out