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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:58 am Post subject: New Sandy Bridge series |
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What are your thoughts on the processors being released within the next month? Worth getting vs the current i7's?
I declare this discussion to commence!
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:12 am Post subject: |
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Lol, next month. We're looking at 2-3 months before sandy bridge is released. They're kidding themselves if they think they're releasing next month.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:32 am Post subject: |
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meh. they releasing the shit series this month. releasing half-assed series in 6 months. atleast thats what they say
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:41 am Post subject: |
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So the most expensive of the bunch running at 3.4GHz w/Turbo to 3.8GHz has 8 threads and a unlock multiplier coming next month is a shitty proc?
We'll hear more about it when CES arrives.
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kls85 wrote: | So the most expensive of the bunch running at 3.4GHz w/Turbo to 3.8GHz has 8 threads and a unlock multiplier coming next month is a shitty proc?
We'll hear more about it when CES arrives. |
The i7 2600 selling for 300 bucks is a joke. It's going to hang onto that price for about a week, and then it's going to rise about 150 dollars.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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kls85 wrote: | So the most expensive of the bunch running at 3.4GHz w/Turbo to 3.8GHz has 8 threads and a unlock multiplier coming next month is a shitty proc?
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someone told me that it really limits ram choices. meh w/e.
any idea when prices for current i7's will drop because of sandy?
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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Also you can't "overclock" the FSB anymore as it fucks up the PCIE lanes and shit.
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Saifallofjmr wrote: | Also you can't "overclock" the FSB anymore as it fucks up the PCIE lanes and shit. |
I was reading about that, you have to lock the pci frequencies in place or someshit. That's why amateur overclockers are always fucking up their video cards.
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Phox wrote: | Saifallofjmr wrote: | Also you can't "overclock" the FSB anymore as it fucks up the PCIE lanes and shit. |
I was reading about that, you have to lock the pci frequencies in place or someshit. That's why amateur overclockers are always fucking up their video cards. | 99% of people who overclock have no need to overclock anyways
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Saifallofjmr wrote: | Also you can't "overclock" the FSB anymore as it fucks up the PCIE lanes and shit. |
Phox wrote: | I was reading about that, you have to lock the pci frequencies in place or someshit. That's why amateur overclockers are always fucking up their video cards. |
erm, you've had to lock the PCI-E / PCI frequency for a million years, it's nothing new.
they moved something (the southbridge functionality?) on die off the top of my head which i guess means one less clock generator to worry about.
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slovach wrote: | Saifallofjmr wrote: | Also you can't "overclock" the FSB anymore as it fucks up the PCIE lanes and shit. |
Phox wrote: | I was reading about that, you have to lock the pci frequencies in place or someshit. That's why amateur overclockers are always fucking up their video cards. |
erm, you've had to lock the PCI-E / PCI frequency for a million years, it's nothing new.
they moved something (the southbridge functionality?) on die off the top of my head which i guess means one less clock generator to worry about. |
Which in turns makes the FSB in control of usb and audio which will fuck up after upping the base clock.
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obviously, but it's a problem that has always existed. with no separate clock generator, there's no way to solve it.
you had to set the pci-e frequency to 101 from 100 on older boards as a workout for the scaling.
sandy bridge seems to have such enormous bandwidth anyway that fsb benefit is probably fairly minimal over raw clock speed.
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Isn't it set to release on the day of CES?
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ArcaneKnite wrote: | Isn't it set to release on the day of CES? |
some are, one is set to release on the 5th
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Phox wrote: | Saifallofjmr wrote: | Also you can't "overclock" the FSB anymore as it fucks up the PCIE lanes and shit. |
I was reading about that, you have to lock the pci frequencies in place or someshit. That's why amateur overclockers are always fucking up their video cards. | Is this an intel thing?
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