Stinky12 Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 With Intel Sandy Bridge arriving in Q4 2010 or Q1 2011, there is still some time to wait, but it didn't stop motherboard makers Asus and Gigabyte to show off what they have to offer. Gigabyte boards Asus boards Intel Sandy Bridge -Uses Intel 6 series chipset -2nd Gen of Core i# series Core i7 "2" 600/suffix Core i7/"2"-2nd generation/600-model number/K-unlock multiplier -Uses socket 1155 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigglyass Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 ...And this relates to GTA 4 how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTheBelow Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 With Intel Sandy Bridge arriving in Q4 2010 or Q1 2011, there is still some time to wait, but it didn't stop motherboard makers Asus and Gigabyte to show off what they have to offer. Gigabyte boards Asus boards Intel Sandy Bridge -Uses Intel 6 series chipset -2nd Gen of Core i# series Core i7 "2" 600/suffix Core i7/"2"-2nd generation/600-model number/K-unlock multiplier -Uses socket 1155 Those motherboards give me a boner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelly Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 Don't really see the need to upgrade nowadays. It'll be interesting to see what they offer still. I'm more intrigued by this new architecture in laptops, it's supposed to bring some decent power savings and better battery life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog_day_sunrise Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 Don't really see the need to upgrade nowadays. It'll be interesting to see what they offer still. I'm more intrigued by this new architecture in laptops, it's supposed to bring some decent power savings and better battery life. Knowing Intel they'll hit the market at precisely the cost of one arm, one leg, one kidney and the life of your first-born son. Will there be any noticable or tangible difference between one and a hexacore Phenom X6- or even a quad-core? Will there f*ck. Will Intel still sell a bucketload of them to the "I must have the newest processor and motherboard and I must have it NOW" peeps? Yeah, probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 bump More on Sandy Bridge... A with a Asus board using UEFI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Thank you for posting that video which none of us can understand. This is an English speaking forum, so use English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 I think you could find a bunch of Swedes on GTAF Anyway, I don't think UEFI is a revolution. Apart from it looking nicer than BIOS, it doesn't really show much improvoment IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 Thank you for posting that video which none of us can understand. This is an English speaking forum, so use English. Don't understand Swedish either, besides the demo says a lot about the next major overhaul for the old aging bios. Is it revolutionary? Yes/No Yes: Current bios has a HDD limitation and cannot boot from a drive larger than 2TB*. UEFI changes that and allows users to do so. Other things is the fancy GUI and mouse support, but seriously if you can't use the keyboard to navigate. You're should not even be fooling around with it. No: UEFI isn't new, it's already available in Itanium platforms and some current Intel motherboards already has it. By default it's disabled, you need to enabled it. *Booting from a HDD large than 2TB 1. A motherboard with UEFI support 2. HDD must be partition as GPT 3. A 64bit OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog_day_sunrise Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 *Booting from a HDD large than 2TB 1. A motherboard with UEFI support 2. HDD must be partition as GPT 3. A 64bit OS I think that starting to integrate compatibility with 4TB+ boot drives at a time when all the smart money moves into sub-TB solid state boot drives is a really, really dumb idea. IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 (edited) SSD have gone down in price, but SSD are still too expensive and its storage space is too small compared to mechanical HDDs. You can get a good SSD like the Crucial RealSSD 64GB SATA 6Gb/s for around $149, where as a 1TB HDD cost at sub $100. Newegg a week or so ago sold the WD Blue 7200RPM 1TB for $65. Currently at $69 And their new SATA 6Gb/s at $74 Hopefully someday this will drop down in price... Edit: The translation to that UEFI demo Google Translate Edited November 14, 2010 by Stinky12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog_day_sunrise Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 (edited) SSD have gone down in price, but SSD are still too expensive and its storage space is too small compared to mechanical HDDs. As storage drives they're pretty poor, but if your going for 4TB+ your much better off having an SSD for boot ect and a seperate storage drive. Bigger HDD drives are SO slow. So glad I kept my 10k RPM RAPTOR drive as a boot drive. Edited November 15, 2010 by dog_day_sunrise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Hardware Canucks ASUS P67 'Sandy Bridge' Motherboards Preview That ASUS Maximus IV Extreme is just f*cking beautiful. I'm in love with that board. Now on the other hand, the ASUS Sabertooth P67 just looks f*cking retarded. I noticed with both boards that they only have 4 DIMM's. Is Intel abandoning triple channel memory with it's 1366 i7's or are these going to be released on a whole new socket or the existing 1156? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 LGA1155 was never supposed to have Triple Channel. LGA2011 will have 6 RAM slots, but not LGA1155. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted November 15, 2010 Author Share Posted November 15, 2010 (edited) Server/Workstation boards has 6 ram slots, but still dual channel http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813131597 ROG board is awesome, the PCIe switches along with a bios switch is a unique feature. The SaberTooth P67 has a 5 year warranty as oppose to 3 years on the ROG. From the pics, ROG has like 8 fan connectors. and has a side facing molex at the left edge? Sabertooth (can't find a high-res pic), seems to have a max of 4 fan connectors (could be wrong). Their mini-ITX ECS (looks like it has Hydra) Edited November 15, 2010 by Stinky12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted November 26, 2010 Author Share Posted November 26, 2010 bump Intel Sandy Bridge CPU, release date, and pricing are out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelly Posted November 26, 2010 Share Posted November 26, 2010 I find it amazing that Intel has decided to rename their XE line by appending a 'K' to the name and charging borderline sane prices for them. Maybe they expect to sell more due to the recession and all? Either way, great news for enthusiasts. Unlocked CPUs are fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTheBelow Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 3.8ghz? Thats the highest factory clock speed boost I've seen so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted November 27, 2010 Author Share Posted November 27, 2010 (edited) Mainstream users gets unlock multipliers (K version only), but this doesn't dethrone the Extreme Editions. IMO Intel will most likely got something better up their sleeves with their high-end Sandy Bridge. At least a quad core for the main stream socket 2011 At least 6 cores for the Extreme Editions with unlock multiplier Edit: typo Edited November 30, 2010 by Stinky12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelly Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 Mainstream users not gets unlock multipliers, but this doesn't dethrone the Extreme Editions.IMO Intel will most likely got something better up their sleeves with their high-end Sandy Bridge. At least a quad core for the main stream socket 2011 At least 6 cores for the Extreme Editions with unlock multiplier Stinky12..... The K versions have unlocked multipliers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted November 30, 2010 Author Share Posted November 30, 2010 Mainstream users not gets unlock multipliers, but this doesn't dethrone the Extreme Editions.IMO Intel will most likely got something better up their sleeves with their high-end Sandy Bridge. At least a quad core for the main stream socket 2011 At least 6 cores for the Extreme Editions with unlock multiplier Stinky12..... The K versions have unlocked multipliers. Just a typo on that previous post. Correct it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 (edited) Apologize for DP as don't want to create another topic. Early reviews! Core i5 2500K Core i7 2600K Edited December 22, 2010 by Stinky12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Democrab Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Anyway, I don't think UEFI is a revolution. Apart from it looking nicer than BIOS, it doesn't really show much improvoment IMHO. Think of BIOS as though Microsoft just kept the Windows 95 codebase and updated it until now, whereas UEFI is what they did by redesigning it every now and again. Yeah, it's a revolution when you look at it on those terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anus Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I really hope that AMD pulls it together and Bulldozer beats Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge as well. Should level off the insane prices Intel charges and us consumers will also get better choices. Win-win situation . I'm planning on going with Bulldozer if it beats Sandy Bridge (using Intel right now). Let's see how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I wouldn't expect Bulldozer to beat Sandy Bridge, seeing how now AMD can hardly keep up with old C2Q CPUs. But I wouldn't mind if the time of AMD being superior returns (Athlon XP anyone? ) Think of BIOS as though Microsoft just kept the Windows 95 codebase and updated it until now, whereas UEFI is what they did by redesigning it every now and again.Yeah, but... it's just a BIOS - you don't need any fancy elements. It's there just to set most basic features of CPU and perform low-level commands. It's not like Win95, which has aged drastically (poor stability nad performance). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog_day_sunrise Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I wouldn't expect Bulldozer to beat Sandy Bridge, seeing how now AMD can hardly keep up with old C2Q CPUs. But I wouldn't mind if the time of AMD being superior returns (Athlon XP anyone? ) They've gone a different route recently though. Larger die process, but more cores. If they incorperate triple channel memory (which they will), larger cache sizes (which some think they will) and the 32nm process (which they will), there's no real reason why they can't catch up. They're already got the whole raw processing power per £/$ thing sussed, as well as the £/$ per core. If they can integrate the above tweaks there should be some pretty stiff competition between them- there's nothing in the Sandy Bridge spec that really strikes me as being superior to what's been reported from the Bulldozer spec. All they really need is for people to properly thread applications for 6+ cores and they'll have no problem, seen as they're already pumping out pretty brisk hexacores for £120-ish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anus Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I wouldn't expect Bulldozer to beat Sandy Bridge, seeing how now AMD can hardly keep up with old C2Q CPUs. But I wouldn't mind if the time of AMD being superior returns (Athlon XP anyone? )Think of BIOS as though Microsoft just kept the Windows 95 codebase and updated it until now, whereas UEFI is what they did by redesigning it every now and again. Yeah, but... it's just a BIOS - you don't need any fancy elements. It's there just to set most basic features of CPU and perform low-level commands. It's not like Win95, which has aged drastically (poor stability nad performance). The thing is, Bulldozer is going to be a new chip built from ground up, so the performance of current AMD chips doesn't matter. It's way too early to say which will be faster since there are no benchmarks of Bulldozer, but I certainly hope that AMD pulls this through and betters Intel. The market really needs it as Intel prices are literally insane compared to AMD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 The thing is, Bulldozer is going to be a new chip built from ground up, so the performance of current AMD chips doesn't matter. Yes I do realise that, but what I meant is since performance of current AMD CPUs is not stunning, I just don't expect them to make such huge progress. It's been a while since they had more powerful CPUs than Intel. I'm definitely rooting for AMD though, since we really need more competition on market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Democrab Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I find it amazing that Intel has decided to rename their XE line by appending a 'K' to the name and charging borderline sane prices for them. Maybe they expect to sell more due to the recession and all? Either way, great news for enthusiasts. Unlocked CPUs are fun. Nah, they expect production costs to go down with the unified base clock and have the K editions as a side effect to that...It also causes cheap OCers like me to get higher end chips and K editions, rather than say, buying a cheap pentium and OCing it. Yeah, but... it's just a BIOS - you don't need any fancy elements. It's there just to set most basic features of CPU and perform low-level commands. It's not like Win95, which has aged drastically (poor stability nad performance). Wrong, the OS talks to the BIOS, the BIOS controls our hard drives, hardware, etc, at the moment is code from the 70s just patched to make modern stuff run, KISS really applies to UEFI > BIOS. The thing is, Bulldozer is going to be a new chip built from ground up, so the performance of current AMD chips doesn't matter. Yes I do realise that, but what I meant is since performance of current AMD CPUs is not stunning, I just don't expect them to make such huge progress. It's been a while since they had more powerful CPUs than Intel. I'm definitely rooting for AMD though, since we really need more competition on market. Phenom I sucked, Phenom II was just an improvement on that, they had to rush it out the doors because they needed chips out there that could at least compete with Intel on price, if they'd taken a little while longer for Phenom II, it'd be beating or matching Core i7, but they didn't have that time. The differences are tiny in real life anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 Looks like NDA has been lifted, official reviews are out! Anandtech Tom's Hardware Ocaholic Hardware Haven XbitLabs TechReport Guru3D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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