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Volshok
United States349 Posts
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Womwomwom
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On January 04 2011 05:25 semantics wrote: If you rate intel's releases are not good or bad just meh then amd must be shit, in terms of performance, efficiency, features and cost. Beyond cost, AMD's releases have been pretty...awful. They're adequate but just so far behind in performance that they don't really have a true high end consumer chip if you know what I mean. They're also awful for certain other things, like high end video game emulation, since they don't really support SSE4.2 (and other earlier instruction sets fully if I'm not mistaken) which helps performance greatly. He's not incorrect though, unless you really need the processing power (and it does offer a lot) there isn't really any need to jump to Sandy Bridge immediately since basic programs and games are still run more than fine by last generation's hardware. Considering the amount of annoying issues we are bound to have with motherboards during launch (hi Foxconn bracket, Gigabyte BIOS issues, god awful Marvell SATA3 drivers, and non-NEC USB3 drivers), I'd probably wait a little while for stuff to calm down a bit before buying if I didn't need to upgrade immediately. | ||
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mav451
United States1596 Posts
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Pervect
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On January 04 2011 08:42 Volshok wrote: Out of curiosity, have the built in DRM fear rumors been substantiated at all? Supposedly theres remote PC disabling along with some sort of media DRM requested by Hollywood. The vast majority of articles I've read on it are against the chips with a blanket straw man argument of "DRM is bad", without going in depth about what the restrictions actually are. Has anyone seem a full list or a good description of exactly how restrictive the DRM is? No, it's nothing new. I assume what the articles are talking about (since they're all shit articles that tell you nothing and probably came from The Inq) is PAVP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavp ). Which is basically closely related to HDCP or TXT or something which has been around forever. Additionally, it's disabled on P67 systems which is what most enthusiasts will probably run (i.e., the people who would probably give a shit/know what PAVP means). Essentially it's nothing new and tabloid journalism with articles that tell you nothing decided was a slow news day and this was a good thing to scare people with. The remote kill switch needs to be activated by the user as far as I know, and it kills the processor in case of theft. Unless you run around in a tin foil hat, you don't need to worry about someone doing this to the computer you bought. However, I don't really know Intel's logic behind this as the thief would probably just sell the computer if it stopped working or if he was after your data just take out the hard drive. I don't particularly agree with either of these things, but they're not anything new. It's not going to make it so if you steal a film, some Hollywood goon shows up on your door. It's not going to make it so some totalitarian force can kill all your processors because they feel like it. A new AV protection scheme in a processor is nothing new and they claim the kill switch was requested by some consumers (although I still do not see its purpose) so they do, at least, have reasons for this. | ||
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mav451
United States1596 Posts
http://www.overclock.net/online-deals/906574-microcenter-sandy-bridge-launch-prices-b.html Core i5 2400 $149.99 Core i5 2500K $179.99 Core i7 2600 $249.99 Core i7 2600k $279.99 *prices confirmed. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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semantics
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holynorth
United States590 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On January 05 2011 07:36 holynorth wrote: So I get that the H67 will allow for the integrated graphics to work while while P67 will not. I have also seen that the P67 has better overclocking capabilities. Is there any more information on this? Can the H67 overclock at all? I was hoping to skip on a video card for a month or two to keep my budget lower but not if it results in a motherboard that can't overclock my CPU. H67 can not overclock at all (even if you have a K chip, it's not possible). | ||
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Pervect
1280 Posts
On January 05 2011 07:36 holynorth wrote: So I get that the H67 will allow for the integrated graphics to work while while P67 will not. I have also seen that the P67 has better overclocking capabilities. Is there any more information on this? Can the H67 overclock at all? I was hoping to skip on a video card for a month or two to keep my budget lower but not if it results in a motherboard that can't overclock my CPU. H67 supports overclocking for memory/graphics. You cannot overclock the processor. Additionally, you need to get something from the K series Sandy Bridge for overclocking. You need a P67 chipset and a processor from the K-series for any meaningful overclocking. | ||
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LuNaLiSK
Greece11 Posts
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Silentness
United States2821 Posts
On January 05 2011 17:20 LuNaLiSK wrote: Bulldozer ftw Two word posts... awesome. Anyways keeping on topic: I've been reading a lot of posts that people are easily getting 5+ GHz on their 2500ks and 2600ks on air. The most shocking thing though I thought was the fact that Anandtech got the new Sandy Bridge processors to 4.4 GHz off the STOCK COOLER. It's not the pos stock cooler like on the i5 760 it's actually a better attempt of a overclocking CPU fan. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 05 2011 17:20 LuNaLiSK wrote: Bulldozer ftw Please don't post like this ever again... In the words of Kyle Bennett from HardOPC 4. He trolled my review post with a fucking stupid picture of a bulldozer......yeah, keep on dreaming fanboy. I have more faith in the world ending in 2012 than I do AMD pulling off an Intel killer. | ||
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mav451
United States1596 Posts
On January 05 2011 07:08 mav451 wrote: Launch prices at Microcenter: http://www.overclock.net/online-deals/906574-microcenter-sandy-bridge-launch-prices-b.html Core i5 2400 $149.99 Core i5 2500K $179.99 Core i7 2600 $249.99 Core i7 2600k $279.99 Launch prices are now confirmed. http://l2.microcentermail.com/C2L/er.aspx?k=73C65kiUc-YbfohMjYYZe9jHZYf-nVciT7nCzYTof_-EJLMD7L1p4w$$ *MC moved the splash page - 2011/01/07 | ||
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
On January 06 2011 00:01 mav451 wrote: Launch prices are now confirmed. http://www.microcenter.com/storefronts/powerspec/index.html lol at $369 MSRP for 2600k. anandtech has $317 for unit price in their review. isnt there some law against marking up the regular price to advertise a higher discount price? :p | ||
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ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 06 2011 02:53 a176 wrote: lol at $369 MSRP for 2600k. anandtech has $317 for unit price in their review. isnt there some law against marking up the regular price to advertise a higher discount price? :p considering that these aren't suppose to sell until later i'd trust the reviews MSRP until all the shops list it. http://hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTI5MzgzOTUyOENDWExYbUthdEpfMV8zMF9sLmpwZw== http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sandy-bridge-core-i7-2600k-core-i5-2500k,2833-10.html | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14893 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On January 06 2011 04:24 semantics wrote: considering that these aren't suppose to sell until later i'd trust the reviews MSRP until all the shops list it. http://hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTI5MzgzOTUyOENDWExYbUthdEpfMV8zMF9sLmpwZw== http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sandy-bridge-core-i7-2600k-core-i5-2500k,2833-10.html Those are the preview prices of their online prices for January 9th. You can't purchase them now =\ We already know that the core i7 2600k will go for $320 as Frys and Canada Computer have been selling them for quite a while. | ||
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semantics
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