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Anyone sent their IVY back and gone sandybridge?

Ollie1132 said:
Suppose that's true. I really need to figure out what Im actually covered for by Intel's OC'ing insurance.
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most things I'd guess as long as you are not LN cooling

I mean I'd guess for most purposes the standard Intel warranty would cover you anyway - just prob easier to claim on the OC insurance

if you own a K series CPU, you've paid the premium for an overclocking chip, if you then run it at sensible volts (say less than spec sheets - 1.4V or so ?), with something better than the stock cooler - well if it collapses after 6 months or use as regularly is over 100C - I'd say you've not done anything outside of the scope of a "K" chip and I don't see why it wouldn't be covered by warranty

if a non-K chip different matter
 
Yeah I get what you mean. Ill wait and see if they do release a new stepping then figure a way to run my chip hot even though it really won't be that healthy for my system. But if it did melt Id get a new colder one :L
 
I think in all likelyhood the temps are fine - just out of people's normal expectations

I don't like seeing CPU temps in the 90s either

but I'm quite happy with my GTX480 core regularly sitting in the 90s playing games - just different expectations/not what we're used to
 
True. If they release a "new" stepping Id want it to have a pretty good advantage over my current one. Ill prime soon since Ive reseated my heatsink and see what happens :)
 
Normally a stepping change is to fix microcode on the cpu so i highly doubt there will be another one. The fact is for the vast majority of vendors its a better cpu, just a damn shame the temps get out of hand when overclocking it but those sales are just a drop in ocean for intel.
 
Buckster said:
I don't see the point of sending back an IB to get a SB - yes it may run cooler - yes you may be able to clock it higher - but all in all probably ziltch end difference for a lot of faff

I'm more than happy with my 3770k @ 4.6 - if I was lucky and got a 2700k to 5.0 gig - it may be slightly faster and cooler - but the temps are irrelevant if stable (its not like Ivy is pumping out lots of heat into the case) and if the 5.0gig 2700k was faster its going to be insignificant - perhaps less than 10%

add to that more consistent DRAM overclocking performance from the Ivy's IMCs - then it seems an odd decision to return
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I had my 2700K at 5.0Ghz, my 3770K at 4.6Ghz gives similar performance/use less power. Happy with my 3770K (On air Hyper 212+), people just like to whinge I think, this is a £250 chip giving uber performance at 4.6Ghz using little power, some people are just never happy. Even if Ivy clocked to 6Ghz they would likely bitch about something else lol :p.
 
Is it just that IB doesn't discipate the heat as well as SB, I'm assuming that when overclocked even though IB is running hotter it's actually still drawing less power that a SB chip at the same relative clock speed and voltage?
 
just ran IBT the meant to be DO NOT RUN BURNS PROCESSOR FFFF. And it ran about 5C cooler than prime (was a short prime run but the prime temps were just going to go up and up to be fair!)
 
I'd add this: If you're buying a new CPU and don't care about budget or overclocking, Ivy seems logical. If you're going to OC, sandybridge is the better, cheaper option. I went Ivy for the simple reason that i'm not going to OC and it's handy to have the latest features (PCI-E 3.0) just in case.
 
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