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29 April was the last date I saw mentioned.
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Pretty sure it has to use 1.35v ram because its 22nm (I may have just made this up)
I've not seen that the requirements are any different than Sandy Bridge.
If it was 1.35V then a lot of people wanting to upgrade would be screwed and there's currently very little choice in ~1.35V RAM.
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There are no ram requirements, hence your signature is still stupid.
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Drooling at the i7-3770K, wishing that there was going to be a none EE 6 core 
Will be interesting to see what they are like, my Q6600 is getting punished these day by me lol
Will be interesting to see what they are like, my Q6600 is getting punished these day by me lol
Whether or not you agree with what's stated in my signature (information provided by OcUK after discussion with Intel) there are RAM requirements.
I've got some 1.9V DDR3 RAM here.
Is it suitable for use with Sandy Bridge?
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Yes, send it to me and i'll use it if you don't want to.
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Quads only end of this month! Duals June
I've got the original i5 750 and not noticed before that the SB and IB ones are now 6MB cache rather than 8MB. I wonder why with this being 45nm chip and them now being smaller, they decreased it rather than staying the same or increasing.
I wouldn't want it to destroy your processor if your BIOS let you use that much voltage.
You know 1.9V would kill your processor
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Latency? Better yields?
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Trying to look that up but so far havent found a relevant link that can explain that , Can some one elaborate if possible in the know for a dummy like me please .
I too am planning an upgrade to ivybridge from a q6600 or i750 , as i migrate them down through family pecking order .
Both are old arcitecture with 8MB cache , I use for gaming but since ill prob be getting a second 6970 would iIbe better going for the i7 instead of i5 IB ?
More cache isn't always better, the speed at which the CPU can access the data is more important. Latency is how long it takes to access a given chunk of memory, measured in milliseconds.
When I said yields, I referred to how many CPU cores can fit on a given piece of silicon (wafer as it is called in the industry). More cache takes up a lot of space and reduces yields, which ultimately makes the processor more expensive to manufacture.
All the Core i7 really offers in that range, over the i5, is hyperthreading. Which doesn't really help gaming much if at all. Save your money and stick with the Core i5 range.
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Thanks sr4470 I get what you are saying now , the size of the bucket is imaterial as long as someone can empty it before it is full .
Though we have had 4 cores for some time with 8mb , i guess this is the trade off to get smaller chip architecture,
Regards to the i7 or i5 version , Yeah was always gona go for the i5 , but because of the idea to move to CF i thought MT would be beneficial to juggling the data between cards , as compared with a single card where i5 would be better solution . especially high end cards like 6790 with zillions of stream processors to organise .
Though we have had 4 cores for some time with 8mb , i guess this is the trade off to get smaller chip architecture,
Regards to the i7 or i5 version , Yeah was always gona go for the i5 , but because of the idea to move to CF i thought MT would be beneficial to juggling the data between cards , as compared with a single card where i5 would be better solution . especially high end cards like 6790 with zillions of stream processors to organise .
You've already got 4 cores to work with, games aren't using more than that for the time being. Crossfire efficiency is also dependant on the drivers and the specific title in question. If you build it and find the CPU really is bottlenecking the graphics cards, then there's always overclocking...