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Canada10660 Posts
On December 28 2010 18:30 Lone_Wolf wrote: Is there anywhere where you can pre-order any sandy bridges processors or motherboards that are compatible with it? I dunno about pre-ording, but on boxing day i picked up an i7-2600k as well as the matching ASUS P8P67 mobo at a local hardware store. Unfortunately, half of my RAM is faulty. | ||
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IPS.ZeRo
Germany1142 Posts
If i am not mistaken ivy bridge will also use socket 1155. So the system can be used for quite some time, maybe with an octa core later on? lets see  | ||
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althaz
Australia1001 Posts
Sooo....anybody want to buy a Core 2 Duo @ 3.29Ghz a Gigabyte motherboard and 8Gb of DDR2...? | ||
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SONE
Canada839 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11554 Posts
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/sandy-bridge-microarchitecture.html It's honestly doesn't introduce anything new except for the idea that the IGP shares the same silicon as the CPU and shares the L3 cache with the CPU. Probably attributed to the fact that AMD hasn't done anything yet for Intel to copy :p | ||
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LazyMacro
976 Posts
Is this the new generation of CPUs and motherboards? If so, I'm buying a new PC. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On December 29 2010 04:49 SONE wrote: I wonder if this will be worth it or not from my i5 750. This will be more of a side-grade for existing core i5 / i7 owners. On December 29 2010 05:30 LazyMacro wrote: So, I tried reading the threaf but I don't understand a lot of the technical jargon. Is this the new generation of CPUs and motherboards? If so, I'm buying a new PC. Yes this is a new generation of CPUs and motherboards. | ||
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LazyMacro
976 Posts
On December 29 2010 05:33 skyR wrote: This will be more of a side-grade for existing core i5 / i7 owners. Yes this is a new generation of CPUs and motherboards. So, this means what currently are very good CPUs and motherboards will go down a little in price? I'm basically looking to build a whole new PC, but I was waiting for new stuff to be released so that I could build a "value" PC, that is, a PC that is really good for the money. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On December 29 2010 05:39 LazyMacro wrote: So, this means what currently are very good CPUs and motherboards will go down a little in price? I'm basically looking to build a whole new PC, but I was waiting for new stuff to be released so that I could build a "value" PC, that is, a PC that is really good for the money. Motherboards will go down in price. Intel CPUS that go EOL (end of life) often never go down in price unless its at a micro center or a non major retailer. | ||
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Slakkoo
Sweden1119 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On December 29 2010 05:56 Slakkoo wrote: If have an i5 750, is it worth upgrading? Only if you have the money to do so... | ||
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IPS.ZeRo
Germany1142 Posts
On December 29 2010 05:56 Slakkoo wrote: If have an i5 750, is it worth upgrading? No. Sandy Bridge will be faster but its not worth it from the i5 750, which shouldn't have any issues with any game out right now. | ||
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mav451
United States1596 Posts
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
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demo1
Canada145 Posts
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Wr3k
Canada2533 Posts
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
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deconduo
Ireland4122 Posts
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mav451
United States1596 Posts
It is a true next-gen dual-core. Not this Clarkdale nonsense, that was pure garbage. The i3 2100 (Sandybridge) is the only dual-core I would recommend for SC2 builds as of today. http://techreport.com/articles.x/20188/6 At $117 it outclasses all other budget CPUs now. The Anandtech gaming page really puts this into perspective: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i5-2600k-i5-2500k-and-core-i3-2100-tested/20 As for the other chips, it would have been nice to see a clock-for-clock comparison to OCed Lynnfield chips, but I think the [H] review will cover that. But for now, the TR and AT are good reviews to start reading. PS - probably good time to update the Build Resource thread and plop that i3 2100 right into the $100 CPU section :D | ||
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