Intel CPU Discussions Thread.
Straight_Man
Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
Looks like Ivy Bridge is almost around the corner, Newegg is aggressively selling off Socket 1155 LGA Sandy Bridge CPUs and motherboards (just starting to cut them deeper). Wild guess as to release?? Given Newegg's move and other info, 2nd Quarter (thanks Thrax, see next post) this year for release.
I titled this thread loosely deliberately. It's for ongoing stuff from Intel, particularly CPUs and motherboards. Anyone with Ivy Bridge knowledge is welcome to post here about it to start things off.
John.
I titled this thread loosely deliberately. It's for ongoing stuff from Intel, particularly CPUs and motherboards. Anyone with Ivy Bridge knowledge is welcome to post here about it to start things off.
John.
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//EDIT: New mobos based on the Intel Z77 chipset are coming, though. USB 3 and PCIe 3.
Maximum PC, Tom's Hardware, and X-bit Labs info.
Newegg 2500K Link
2600Ks are $324.95.
Newegg 2600K Link
First-gen i7 series are 45 nm fab process. They have smaller L3 Cache and consume more power than the i7 Sandy Bridge E's do. I think they do not hyper-thread, the Second-gen ones DO Hyper-thread.
Ivy Bridge is 22nm.
Ivy Bridge will be a socket 1155 part (like Sandy Bridge), but it remains to be seen if mobo vendors will update their BIOS. They really should, since z77 is an incremental upgrade and the CPU itself hasn't changed features that would require a new pinout of the 1155 LGA.
This is interesting, especially the bops compare of new chips vs older Westmere Xeons and the floating point specs (only a prelim few ideas given) and large cache size. They are, even more interesting to those on a limited budget perhaps, still Sandy Bridge chips.
Folding uses Cores supposedly, but with multithreading cores that work multiple threads in parallel per core, uses threads as cores for SMP purposes as with the 2600k which has four cores with parallel thread processing times two per core. The Folding client and FAHControl are using as an SMP 8-core CPU automatically for the v7 betas so far.
The chips will be targeted at dual-socket server or dual-socket workstation Sandy Bridge boards according to TR. They are 8 core chips, 2 threads in parallel per core.
Note also, the conclusion about the dual E5-2690 system and the quad AMD , which I will quote Johan De Galas writing for Anandtech about:
Via http://wccftech.com/arctic-cooling-leaks-complete-intel-haswell-lga1150-cpu-lineup-core-i73980x-confirmed-lga2011/
Just wondering if anyone else has heard anything else regarding Haswell. Looks like it'll be an improvement from Ivy Bridge, but I'm curious to see how much. I'm getting the itch to put together a new system and hand the old down, but it sounds like Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge will still be strong contenders. Still not sure this is something worth waiting for, too early to tell?