CPU/Mobo Intel Sandy Bridge discussion thread

^tooli, if you were to look at it that way, even the slightest bump of voltage and/or increase in the stock clocks on any chip degrades its life. And what is the period of lifetime we are talking of here? A decade perhaps? I have no idea TBH! An average user (like me for instance. I just do one thing with my system - play!) manages to ditch a chip every 3 years. I am sure this will last until then. And we aren't even taking enthusiasts into the equation! :P
 
Anandtech got a chip running stable at 4.4 ghz on the puny stock cooler. Of course it was at 70 Farenhenit ambient i think. But even in Indian summers, im sure keeping temps under control wont be a problem with good coolers.

i5-2500k shouldnt really be more than 11k IMHO (comparing list prices of i5 -760 which is $196 and i5-2500k which is $216. And the i5 760 sells for 9.8k on Delta) Of course we might see some initial jacking up of prices due to new launch and strong demand
 
Gannu bro.. i totally agree 100 %

But i have killed a 980x on stock volts and running only 3.6ghz in 3 weeks.. it just died.. i have lost a 661 on pretty average overclocks as well bro.

All im saying is 32nm is Fragile and so people should treat these chips with a little more care :) 65nm and 45nm were super tough compared to these 32nm chips.

I know several cases on Gulftown where running over 1.35v on vtt has caused noticeable degradation in under 6-8 months.

What i meant was that 4.4-4.6ghz will be easy to do.. Getting more will require significant volts / add more heat and thus will be risker than before with our 45nm chips.

Then again there are tons of people pushing volts into them and getting away with it so as always people's milage will vary :P

Just wanted to say go ahead and bench the crap out of them.. heck i think SB is going to be great cheap overclocking fun...i wont be surprised if a few chips die though :P ( more than what we got with 45 and 65nm chips )

Although i do feel Intel will have fixed those issues with gulftown with their 2nd gen 32nm process but its a little to early to tell :)

Cheers and kind regards my bro :)

and happy new year too :) !!
 
I think toolius is right. One needs to be careful with the volts on the retail chips i feel.

Unlike the initial 5GHz on air, 24x7 expectations, it seems 4.4GHz is more achievable and practical on an average.

4.6Ghz-4.8GHz for those with a little more adrenaline in their system.

So final outcome may very well depend on mood/caliber of the chip at hand.
 
I am not extreme overclocker, or for that matter not even expert overclocker... but I personally prefer OCing under stock voltage. In that context, it looks like sweet 4GHz is easily achievable and reasonable for 24/7 usage.... and it seems it's achievable on stock cooler, so with better cooler it's much more plausible to have stable, 24/7 operation at 4GHz. This is available for, almost everyone with decent air-cooler and P67 board.... now how cool is that? :)
 
TR has a review on 3 P67 boards (ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI), and it seems 4.4ghz is the sweet spot, infact you cannot increase the base clock even 1 mhz without having stability issues. Asus seemed to have the better board with 4.4ghz on stock volts.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/20190

Apart from benching purpose, the stock speeds with turbo mode are enough to handle any processor intensive application.
 
Yeah the Asus P8P67 @ $190 seems a great board and hopefully it isnt priced above 11k here (Sabertooth X58 sells for 10.8k these days)
Asus P8P67+i5 2500K @ 22k-23k would be a excellent deal :D
 
Aces170 said:
TR has a review on 3 P67 boards (ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI), and it seems 4.4ghz is the sweet spot, infact you cannot increase the base clock even 1 mhz without having stability issues. Asus seemed to have the better board with 4.4ghz on stock volts.

Sandy Bridge motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, and MSI - The Tech Report - Page 1

Apart from benching purpose, the stock speeds with turbo mode are enough to handle any processor intensive application.
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for asus p8p67 motherboard power phases are 12+2 while for intel mobo power phases are 6 only..........

what does it mean by power phases?????.......

did some googling and found that more the number of quality power phases the better the mobo performs in overclocking........
 
Kingston has launched its HyperX new performance DDR III memory modules for Sandy Bridge.


Please tell, after today's official launch of Sandy Bridge, will the prices of other i3 & i5 processors will be reduced. If they have been reduced, can anyone give the new prices?

Regards
 
Please tell, after today's official launch of Sandy Bridge, will the prices of other i3 & i5 processors will be reduced. If they have been reduced, can anyone give the new prices?

Regards
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No they have not reduced, and it will be unlikely Intel will reduce them. Intel always phases off the older processors, they have hardly reduced the prices of older chips with advent of newer chips.
 
price india never gives the right prices lol they price always very high good thing 2500k is 12k & 2600k is 19k ?? :D i dont think so !! Will hope for the best , looking forward for asrock fatality p67, saber tooth , rog series & ecs mobo price rest of the mobos look like junk !
this wud be the best upgrade , Q6600 still rocks :P its gonna be my HTPC & sandy the sweet candy gaming rig !
 
i hope i7 2600k will hover somewhere around the 16-17k mark.. while i5 2500k somewhere around 11k..

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as for motherboard... asus p8p67 evo or pro look good.. :)
 
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