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A Sandybridge / Ivy bridge question

99Androidguy777

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When will the Ivy bridge be on the market ?
and how long do you reckon it will be before they are stable ?
A friend told me the Sandy Bridge has been through a few revisions,
since they first appeared.
 
I think Ivy Bridge should be around March/April next year.

Unless Intel mess up Ivy Bridge will be stable from day one.

Sandy Bridge processors haven't been through a few revisions. As far as I know the processors are exactly the same now as when they were launched.

The only thing that's changed is the chipset.

Just concentrating on the overclocking chipsets there was the initial potentially faulty P67, a fixed P67 and now Z68.
 
Surveyor said:
I think Ivy Bridge should be around March/April next year.

Unless Intel mess up Ivy Bridge will be stable from day one.

Sandy Bridge processors haven't been through a few revisions. As far as I know the processors are exactly the same now as when they were launched.

The only thing that's changed is the chipset.

Just concentrating on the overclocking chipsets there was the initial potentially faulty P67, a fixed P67 and now Z68.
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I sure hope so.
 
SB has been though a revision.

The 2700k is one of the refreshed parts and I think there was an i3 but most of its use was in the mobile market where it gave a large bump in clock/turbo speeds across some of the range.

Ivy is annoyingly far away and so much of its design has been announced already it feels like it should be out in a couple of weeks but it's nearly half a year till anticipated launch.
 
IB is just a die shrink so it's unlikely to have any problems. CPU's are rarely unstable and even when they do have issues most user's are unaffected. All CPU's have a few revisions but it's nearly always just to improve performance.
 
lay-z-boy said:
SB has been though a revision.

The 2700k is one of the refreshed parts and I think there was an i3 but most of its use was in the mobile market where it gave a large bump in clock/turbo speeds across some of the range.

Ivy is annoyingly far away and so much of its design has been announced already it feels like it should be out in a couple of weeks but it's nearly half a year till anticipated launch.
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The 2700K isnt really a revision. It's a slight clock bump to an existing chip.

The 2600K and 2700K are both Stepping 7, Revision D2.
 
Surveyor said:
The 2700K isnt really a revision. It's a slight clock bump to an existing chip.

The 2600K and 2700K are both Stepping 7, Revision D2.
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This. 2700K are just the better chips in the wafer, hence why they can overclock better. Still the same stepping and revision.

It was only a problem with the B2 revisions of the chipsets, but that's been solved with the new B3 revision and gave Intel time to make Z68 perfect before it's release.
 
Halfway though the wafer lifespan intel usually revise a few models with some higher clocks, slightly lower power and better oc'ing as the production has matured enough to allow higher headroom.
If you release a new product as a result of that then it's a revised product. It's nowhere near as drastic as a respin (i.e BD) and neither is it a stepping change as they are usually to get cpu errata fixed. (i.e 920 c0 to d0)

An example; I have a 2920xm, it was replaced by the slightly buffed 2960xm which has both higher base clocks/turbo and runs slightly cooler/clocks better.
It's still on paper the same stepping and revision as no errata have been fixed but it's physical attributes are better toned to the point where resulted in a revised product line. (2x20 -> 2x60)
 
lay-z-boy said:
Halfway though the wafer lifespan intel usually revise a few models with some higher clocks, slightly lower power and better oc'ing as the production has matured enough to allow higher headroom.
If you release a new product as a result of that then it's a revised product. It's nowhere near as drastic as a respin (i.e BD) and neither is it a stepping change as they are usually to get cpu errata fixed. (i.e 920 c0 to d0)

An example; I have a 2920xm, it was replaced by the slightly buffed 2960xm which has both higher base clocks/turbo and runs slightly cooler/clocks better.
It's still on paper the same stepping and revision as no errata have been fixed but it's physical attributes are better toned to the point where resulted in a revised product line. (2x20 -> 2x60)
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As most people would understand the term that's not "revision".
 
I think what you're referring to is a stepping change. Which is shown in apps like cpu-z on the 'revision' box. There hasn't been a stepping change as far as I'm aware for SB just a revision with boosted clocks under new model names.
 
We'll have to agree to differ on what constitutes a revision, especially in the terms implied in the OP's statement, and how the word would be used in connection with CPU's.
 
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best use this thread instead of starting a new one.

Ivy bridge CPU will it need a new designed Mother board?
Or would it run on the Sandybridge ones?
 
garsands said:
best use this thread instead of starting a new one.

Ivy bridge CPU will it need a new designed Mother board?
Or would it run on the Sandybridge ones?
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I would have thought they should work on current 1155 socket ones. I guess some may need bios revisions e.t.c though.
 
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