Sandy Bridge Reviews

[alg1a]

2500k for me.

 

[Fx-Overlord]

Well looks like the Sandy Bridge CPU's make almost no improvement over the i7 for gaming.

I won't be upgrading my 3.8 ghz i5 750 for it.

It's still the fastest chip for gaming and at better price points than Bloomfields.

 

[neologan]

I'm not really an overclocker so I think the i7-2600 will do. Depends on price of course, might go for one of the low-power versions if they're priced competitively.

do you not need any extra performance? if not, fine, but if you do they've made overclocking stupidly easy this time round, so think it through.

 

[hudson86]

when can we purchase these, cant see any dates in the reviews ?

 

[Garee]

9th January.

 

[hudson86]

9th January.

cheers

 

[Antx777]

Hardware heaven

As this site been posted?.

 

[Dark_Angel]

Hardware heaven

As this site been posted?.

My OP has been updated to include it now, quoted from you.

 

[DragonQ]

P67 + i7-2600K = such a beast, especially if you get one that can do 4.5+ GHz with decent voltage.

 

[Things change I've changed]

Some pretty good video reviews here from OC3D,

i7-2600K

i5-2500K

Asus Maximus IV Extreme

 

[Dark_Angel]

Updated again.

 

[DBT85]

I know its nothing to do with the chips, but the OC3D dude needs to learn about headroom in his videos.

Since people have already gotten 4.4ghz on air from a normal Intel branded board, I cant imagine why i'd need to spend more on something like a Asus sabretooth or anything when a standards P8P67 will probably be a LOT cheaper.

Will obviously have to wait on reviews though.

EDT: The Asus Maximus IV Extreme only managed 4.6 which for the price premium over a stock intel board isn't great.

 

[Antx777]

TechRadar If of interst

 

[ahenners]

Why are all these reviews out today? What happened to the NDA or whatever

I think the NDA expired last night/midnight so that's why all these websites etc can release reviews. It makes sense really as it generates a considerable amount of interest before release day.

 

[xiphrex]

These are looking really good.

Wont motherboard vendors find a way to change the baseclock?

If the k chips are decently priced they might make for a nice upgrade.

 

[opethdisciple]

Do you think they are making overclocking more simple in order to create a new market of customers?

IE those who would get fazzled by trying to overclock the cor i series, would find it easier with SB?

 

[DBT85]

These are looking really good.

Wont motherboard vendors find a way to change the baseclock?

You can change the base clock. The issue is that now the blck is on the chip instead of on the motherboard. Changing it also changes the bclk for everything else conneced with it. That's why Intel have gone down the multiplier route.

Looks like the best you might get would be a bclk of 110mhz. That would take a 45x multi from 4.5ghz to 4.95ghz though so not to be sniffed at.

 

[Serpantine]

PC Perspective P67 / Sandy Bridge and Mobile Review:

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=1057

 

[MumboJumbo]

From the sounds of it when I get one I will leave it at 100mhz. Changing it can damage other parts so it's just not worth doing it when tbh even at 3.3ghz these chips are too fast for any games we currently have. I'll aim for 4.5hz.

I am wondering what the point of all the other mobos will be now, are some mobos going to be able to really get it up to the 53x multiplier? Would be insane but unless you are loaded I think the price to performance ratio will be off the chart and you'd have to be barmy to pay for it.

 

[opethdisciple]

These look amazing!

Simple to overclock! I would be happy with anything over 4Ghz....

Question is however, would a SB based system increase the performance of my 5870?