Ivy Bridge

James086 · 30th December 2011, 2:41 AM

There's been a recent price drop on Sandy Bridge processors (Intel's pricing, it will take a while to pass along to consumers as the retailers' stock was probably bought at the old price) but before you buy a 2700K be aware that on April 8 Ivy Bridge is coming. It's the 22nm die shrink of Sandy Bridge. It's got a far faster IGP but more importantly for folding it has a decent (~20%) reduction in power consumption. Add to this the fact that it's apparently a better overclocker than SB and I think it's going to be a winner. Bear in mind that this isn't confirmed yet and IB is still 3 months away but it's something to note. I hope you all have a good new year.

Copie · 30th December 2011, 2:46 AM

Eh Fudzilla.

Should be alright though, word coming through that they are getting 5.0-5.4ghz at <1.35v

They arent faster per say clock for clock though, they are around the same.http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ght=ivy+bridge

DarkYendor · 30th December 2011, 5:33 AM

I've been using quad-cores for years now. If I'm going to upgrade, it's gotta have more than 4 cores. Maybe Ivy Bridge E will bring hex- or octo- core CPUs.

knowskillz · 30th December 2011, 5:44 AM

any price drops on i2500k's?

ToBiAs_R33per · 30th December 2011, 11:33 AM

if i was gonna change up my current folding set, it would be for more cores per machine rather than the speed. Say 8 cores HT per machine

Specially with the changes to BBA coming up next year

shadowman · 30th December 2011, 11:37 AM

Gotta agree with others, I'm looking for more cores. Ivy Bridge won't have more than 4C/8T, just going to have to hang out for new AMD or Intel revisions with more cores.

aussie-revhead · 30th December 2011, 9:25 PM

Im just into it for benching, more cores might help some benchies but generally more mhz is king, so if they clock better than I will have one... or two ...

Copie · 30th December 2011, 9:25 PM

Well word is that some of the early IB's are able to boot at 5.0ghz at 1.17v, 5.4ghz at 1.35v

aussie-revhead · 30th December 2011, 9:28 PM

hehe my 2700K is doing 5400 at 1.4v so Im doing ok .... I wonder if 6ghz will become commonplace?

Copie · 30th December 2011, 9:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aussie-revhead

hehe my 2700K is doing 5400 at 1.4v so Im doing ok .... I wonder if 6ghz will become commonplace?

Thats not prime stable though.

aussie-revhead · 30th December 2011, 9:29 PM

Yours or mine?

Copie · 30th December 2011, 9:29 PM

yours.......

aussie-revhead · 30th December 2011, 9:30 PM

I havent prime tested it but it passes 1024 wprime and 32mb pi ... mine is under single stage though .... not sure if yours are cold clocks or what.

HornySamus · 30th December 2011, 9:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Copie

Well word is that some of the early IB's are able to boot at 5.0ghz at 1.17v, 5.4ghz at 1.35v

Lol whats an NDA? Hahahaha

aussie-revhead · 30th December 2011, 9:32 PM

They will be engineering samples anyway, who knows what retail will do.

Did you notice that shaminos huge 7970 scores were done with a 2011 ES cpu?

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30th December 2011, 2:46 AM	#2
Copie (Banned or Deleted) Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Newcastle Posts: 7,851	Eh Fudzilla. Should be alright though, word coming through that they are getting 5.0-5.4ghz at <1.35v They arent faster per say clock for clock though, they are around the same.http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ght=ivy+bridge

30th December 2011, 9:28 PM	#9
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30th December 2011, 9:30 PM	#13
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