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Intel Sandy Bridge-E (LGA2011 and X79) Launching 14/11 - Enthusiast Level CPU's
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ColonialRaptor
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Hazaro said:
$534 each per 1000
Sandy Bridge-E Prices Leaked In Company Bulletin
http://pcper.com/news/Processors/Sandy-Bridge-E-Prices-Leaked-Company-Bulletin
http://pcper.com/news/Processors/Sandy-Bridge-E-Prices-Leaked-Company-Bulletin
Unknown Soldier
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LOL, I was wondering if Intel would price SB-E closely to Gulftown, which is around $500. I guess we have an answer now. It's pretty obvious from that pricing that Intel doesn't care if they sell any of these things or not, they're just being produced so they can smash AMD in review benchmarks.
so the benches are out at all your favorite sites ...
conclusion is expected; no IPC gains, roughly same overclockability, very high power draw when overclocked, decimates everything in multithread benches/applications and nukes everything in those same situations when overclocked
although as most sites conclude, with the speed (and low energy usage) an overclocked 2600K already offers you need to do a whole lot of multithreaded work for the 3960X to make any sense financially speaking
I'm only seeing 3960X reviews though, apparently the -K chips are send out later. The latter will be much more interesting ofcourse given the lower price.
conclusion is expected; no IPC gains, roughly same overclockability, very high power draw when overclocked, decimates everything in multithread benches/applications and nukes everything in those same situations when overclocked
although as most sites conclude, with the speed (and low energy usage) an overclocked 2600K already offers you need to do a whole lot of multithreaded work for the 3960X to make any sense financially speaking
I'm only seeing 3960X reviews though, apparently the -K chips are send out later. The latter will be much more interesting ofcourse given the lower price.
The funny thing about Sandy bridge -e launching is that bulldozer looks better against the i5 2500k. Most likely because they did very little single thread testing for SB-E
SB-E is a beast , if your doing somet hing that needs such power then its a great buy , however if your just playing games and surfing the web a i5 2500k or a i7 2600k is the better deal. The i5 2500k is less than half htep rice of the 3930k !
As for those who want Ivy bridge , there is going to be an ivy bridge for x79 also.
SB-E is a beast , if your doing somet hing that needs such power then its a great buy , however if your just playing games and surfing the web a i5 2500k or a i7 2600k is the better deal. The i5 2500k is less than half htep rice of the 3930k !
As for those who want Ivy bridge , there is going to be an ivy bridge for x79 also.
90 percent of people asking if they should build will never, ever use the power this have.
90 percent won't even use the power of a 2500k. Hell, tomshardware, who is basically a free marketing site. Even they say they do not recommend anything over a 2500k for gaming as it's simply not worth it.
Now if you were doing things that need a CPU like this, you wouldn't have to ask if you needed it. You would already know you did.
90 percent won't even use the power of a 2500k. Hell, tomshardware, who is basically a free marketing site. Even they say they do not recommend anything over a 2500k for gaming as it's simply not worth it.
Now if you were doing things that need a CPU like this, you wouldn't have to ask if you needed it. You would already know you did.
ColonialRaptor
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irfan said:
*waves*
MisterNoisy
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Seems like a lot of money and some hellacious power consumption for what will likely not be much gain in games - the 2500K will likely remain the right choice for most people for now, and anyone looking to upgrade will be better served by the die-shrink with Ivy.
Cipherr said:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/11/14/intel_core_i73960x_sandy_bridge_e_processor_review/3
and from anandtech "At the core level, Sandy Bridge E is no different than Sandy Bridge. It doesn't clock any higher, L1/L2 caches remain unchanged and per-core performance is identical to what Intel launched earlier this year."
guess it really is "just" Sandy Bridge + more cores & cache
Cipherr said:
ITs the same chip as the 4 core sandy bridge chips except with quad channel ram and more cores.
Ivy bridge is going to be the jump foward for quad core chips ipc wise
Next year we will see Ivy bridge which should bring 10-20% performance increase and piledriver that should give 10% increase to 15% against bulldozer.
Will be a boring year till the end i'd say. We will really need to see games start to use 6 and 8 cores before anything changes
a176 said:
Sold my last desktop over a year ago, for over the last year been on a laptop with a 740qm and gt330m, time for a desktop again as I switched universities and now am at home.
the $270 extra over the 2600k and $80 extra over the Rampage III Extreme was more then worth it to me, I would understand people questioning doing it from already owning a 2600k but when your doing a new build completely and the difference is $350 on an already high priced build its not that much more hurt to the bank. Also hoping for better 4th gpu scaling but only time will tell and not expecting much there.
BigBlackGamer
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so Ivy Bridge is for sure early next year? I'm still rocking a first gen i7 and it's served me well but looking for a decent bump in CPU power. (I do alot of encoding)
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irfan said:
There are plenty of Gaffers who are working with high-end video editing and encoding, image manipulation, and other things for which having more cores directly benefits their productivity. SB-E is pointless for gamers but most gamers play games as a hobby and have real jobs or professions and some of these real jobs or professions are heavily multi-threaded workloads which would dramatically improve with slapping more cores inside the production machine. More REAL cores, mind you, not AMD's fake cores in Bulldozer. SB-E has 6 real Sandy Bridge cores inside.
