CPU/Mobo Intel Sandy Bridge discussion thread

jojothedragon · Jan 3, 2011

Wow! The new processors are uber awesome. Its good that i didn't upgrade my processor earlier.

vpraveenis · Jan 4, 2011

Sandy bridge performance seems to be vastly improved and the pricing also is aggressive (esp considering no competition from AMD @ this point). Once they hit the shelves and become more mainstream, we can expect price drops. It will be interesting when AMD releases their new architecture. If it is anywhere as near as the sandy bridge, then it's gonna be a real price war (But AMD launch is still farther away to those who are looking for an immediate upgrade).

But as many reviews point out, the intel has opened the gates for amd by closing the overclocking to i3's. AMD still makes sense if one is looking to get i3 for overclocking (or go for existing i3's when they become cheaper). i5 2500K seems to have hit the price/performance sweet spot.. Hell it even outperformed the i7 2600K in some gaming benchmarks...

By the way any news on the new motherboard costs? It looks like the motherboard is not going to be as important as the processor itself (The K ones). Will it be priced lower than the 1156 socket ones are will they cost more than that? Currently AM3 based boards are great value for money when compared to intel ones.... but if the sandy boards are priced right, then it is going to be one awesome package!! :clap::clap:

yashchitale · Jan 4, 2011

when do they hit Indian markets?!?!?!? :S

Gaurish · Jan 4, 2011

Looks Good, seems it would be time to upgrade. I am still stuck on Intel E5300...lol

TechHead · Jan 4, 2011

The only advantage I'm seeing with those 980X CPUs is on heavily heavily MT apps, and F@H. I'd rather spend 1/4 the price and get the 2500K for 95% of the performance, and a 110-120% better OC.

yashchitale · Jan 4, 2011

only Intel boards are available ATM

Amazon.com: GA-P67A-UD4 Motherboard: Electronics

Buy.com - GA-P67A-UD4 motherboard

Gannu · Jan 4, 2011

yashchitale said:
Amazon.com: GA-P67A-UD4 Motherboard: Electronics

Buy.com - GA-P67A-UD4 motherboard

Meh! My response was to his query:

kippu said:
any idea when it hits indian shores?

:|

yashchitale · Jan 4, 2011

okay..

sorry..

Gannu · Jan 4, 2011

12,500 INR for 2500K - sweet!

kippu · Jan 4, 2011

arr, arr, very great ,maybe i should give deltapage a ring and see when they expect the motherboards

Aces170 · Jan 4, 2011

12,500 INR for 2500K - sweet!

Not that sweet considering, previous processors were exact same price as in US. I think the 2500K should settle to 11k once availability is abundant.

The only advantage I'm seeing with those 980X CPUs is on heavily heavily MT apps, and F@H. I'd rather spend 1/4 the price and get the 2500K for 95% of the performance, and a 110-120% better OC.

But wasnt that always the case, games always used to prefer faster processors, not the number of cores. But yeah, price to performance is simply not worth for the 980X atm.

raxy · Jan 4, 2011

What about prices of core i5 2500 (standard) edition?

comp@ddict · Jan 4, 2011

I suppose the 2600K might retail around the 17k mark then.

No, 2500K is 15k, 2600k is 100$ costlier, that puts it at 20k, if not higher.

GUYS, MUST SEE,

SANDY BRIDGE "HYPERTHREADING" and "TURBO 2.0" REVIEW

Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500K & Core i7-2600K Processors Review - Page 6

Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500K & Core i7-2600K Processors Review - Page 7

Interesting to see HT adds anywhere between 10-40% performance improvement, while Turbo 2.0 adds a mere 5-10% performance improvement only.

yashchitale · Jan 4, 2011

see my earlier post(edited.. page 2).. 19k seems more likely for now... once they're in surplus prices should stay steady 17-18k..

viralbug · Jan 4, 2011

Gaurish said:
Looks Good, seems it would be time to upgrade. I am still stuck on Intel E5300...lol

I'm still stuck on Intel E2180.

Jasku · Jan 4, 2011

This is a definite upgrade for me, I think most people will settle for the 2500k, only question is the pricing of the P67 motherboards, if its $200 in the US, it will be around 15k INR, again not good!!

vishalrao · Jan 4, 2011

Linux users can say "F.M.L." as usual: SemiAccurate :: Sandy Bridge is the biggest disappointment of the year

Avish · Jan 4, 2011

comp@ddict said:
No, 2500K is 15k, 2600k is 100$ costlier, that puts it at 20k, if not higher.

But according to deltapage 2600 is 15k, so no way 2500k is gonna be 15k, coz it's cheaper by almost 80$ than 2600.

Sudarshan_SMD · Jan 4, 2011

vishalrao said:
Linux users can say "F.M.L." as usual: SemiAccurate :: Sandy Bridge is the biggest disappointment of the year

Editor's note: Intel provided S|A with the following response.

Intel: 'Charlie tested unreleased Sandybridge hardware without drivers. No hardware can function properly without drivers on any operating system, and as such, these results are not valid. We encourage Semiaccurate to retest the platform with the appropriate drivers in place'

Editor would like to note that Intel provided the unreleased hardware and drivers for Windows 7, Windows XP, and Vista. No drivers were provided for any flavor of Linux, and none were available short of building from source on our own. We do not feel this meets any reasonable standard for 'available'. We await appropriate drivers from Intel for re-testing, but as of press time, none were available.

We should keep our fingers crossed until drivers are released.

toolius · Jan 5, 2011

A 980x at 4.2 pretty much equals a 2600K @ 4.7-4.8ghz. Everyone who read At's review needs to remember Turbo on SB is doing the damage. Overclock the 980x to match the same turbo speeds and then the gap grows significantly.

The volts and temps im seeing for speeds above 4.4-4.6 ghz makes me question the longevity factor at those volts/temps.

This is 32nm after all and i wouldn't recommend over 1.4v if you want that chip to last.

i mean pushing above 1.4v for 24/7 running is brave

.. especially come indian summers or unless you have water.

So take what you get below 1.4 volts for air running 24/7. and run the occasional 4.8-5 ghz bench if you can

Got a bunch of chips/boards coming .. this platform has got me all curious

Cheers and kind regards guys

CPU/Mobo Intel Sandy Bridge discussion thread

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