Interesting article on Sandybridge

[rikky]

Looks like you have no way of enabling Quick Sync Video on the P67 boards and if you want to use that feature of the chip you would have to use an H67 board that will severely limit your overclocking ability.

This sounds like a major balls up from Intel ... more details here:
http://www.techradar.com/news/compu...-sandy-bridge-video-transcoder-****-up-919110

 

[danielanthony]

Feeling sorry for all those who bought their P67 boards yesterday.

Will be hanging on till the Z68 arrives then, so long as they don't start at £300+

 

[mmj_uk]

Will the Z68 allow it though?

Surely the main issue is that when you plug in a discrete graphics card it uses the PCI-E bus leaving the CPU no way to communicate with the onboard GPU? so the only way they might get it working is if the discrete graphics card is only run at 8x (leaving 8x for the onboard) or if the motherboard had an NVidia PCI-E chipset added?

 

[Skilty]

The H67 and Z68 are the only chipsets for the 1155 socket that will allow the onboard GPU to be enabled.

The Z68 is the only one that will allow the GPU to be enabled and allow overclocking. Right now you have to choose overclocking or onboard GPU when buying a M/B

Why would you want to run both the onboard and discrete graphics card? For encoding and decoding of video?

Does the Z68 allow you to switch between either onboard or discrete graphics, now that might be useful... ...I know you can do it on some laptops...

 

[mothermachine]

Brand new generation tech coming out with obvious missing features? Anyone really surprised? Ok so nothing like this has happened before with CPUs/chipsets/mobos but it's been going on for years and years with companies like Apple etc. early adopters always pay a price, either with high entry costs, missing features or both. in this case it's the latter as the price seams reasonable.

glad I still stick to my "skip a generation" tactic.

also i still don't understand why on earth Intel's new generation is only quad core and dual channel ram? surely this is a massive step backwards? for me 6-core and triple channel is a minimum. i was kind of expecting Intel's next big push to be 8-core and quad channel.

meh... all very shady to me.

 

[RyanBTBizDirect]

Good insights mothermachine - like your "skip a generation tactic." Great article as well Thanks for the share.

 

[the1gooner]

Well this just makes me even more determined to wait until AMD release their new chipsets/processors in a few months.

 

[WingZero30]

Since hearing about sandybridge, it hasn't aroused my interest at all in terms of upgrading to it. When skt 2011 SB comes, I wonder if some people will be regretting buying skt 1155.

 

[WingZero30]

also i still don't understand why on earth Intel's new generation is only quad core and dual channel ram? surely this is a massive step backwards? for me 6-core and triple channel is a minimum. i was kind of expecting Intel's next big push to be 8-core and quad channel.

meh... all very shady to me.

My thoughts exactly. I think that was one of the main reason why Core 2 series was so popular as it doubled+ everything over the previous generation Pentium 4.

 

[mothermachine]

My thoughts exactly. I think that was one of the main reason why Core 2 series was so popular as it doubled+ everything over the previous generation Pentium 4.

aye. personally i expect something significant with each new "generation", especially if it's a new chipset. i mean you're talking a whole new mobo, ram, hdd, os etc. it's a lot of money. and this seems to be a significant step backwards, regardless of the issues with GPU/o/c etc.

i'm not going to be upgrading until we're on 8-core with quad channel ram, personally. my i7 970 will work for me for another year or so at least i'm sure, maybe 2.