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what do you think current range of sandybridge prices will drop to once ivy bridge releases?
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If you were replacing SB would it be better value to get another SB or an IB??
when will ivy bridge cpu's be available to buy and are they going to be worth getting over a 2700k?
They are reportedly to hit retail channels at the end of this month. As for benefits over a 2700k, the main performance increase with IB is the GPU, there are of course enhancements and refinements that make IB slightly faster clock for clock, but there is very little in it. The only other benefit to IB is slightly lower power draw/greater efficiency.
The most important feature is full PCI-E 3 support.
..with higher CPU temps may I add
Does IB and Z77 bring 16x/16x PCIe slots to the table? Or are you still limited to 16x/8x? That would be a bigger improvement than PCIe 3.0 IMO.
Are they that much higher though? I was under the impression that the process shrink and voltage drop would lead to lower temps?