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Anyone sent their IVY back and gone sandybridge?

Well whatever you have, I'm sure games would be fine running at even 4.4GHz - I've had 3 2500K's and the worse one clocked stable at 4.5GHz max, the second 4.9GHz and the third 4.6Ghz.

I'm still tempted to get a 3570K although it's abit daft owning a 2500K already lol. :)
 
-Mike- said:
Nothing currently saturates pciex 2 does it?
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Not as far as I know, it's kinda of a pointless I think for what is out currently gpu wise.
-Mike- said:
How high are the chances of me getting a poor sandybridge cpu compared to this one?

This seemed prime stable but it appears to need a lot more voltage to get it past 1 hour which puts temps up towards 80 degrees at 4.6!

Edit : The reason I ask is my friends 2700k isn't a particularly good clocking chip.
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Well mine is fine at 4.6, I pushed the multi up to 47 but it bsod as soon as I started prime95 blend, but I did not push any more volts through it, currently i'm at 1.37 vcore in bios, I think there's more to get from my chip but I like to play my game more than tweak lol
 
Seems I wasn't alone in going straight to SB, when I could have chosen IB.

There just wasn't enough performance gain for the extra money that IB + a good cooler would have cost. There was also a large element of the unknown. The reports of high temps were the reason that helped me make my mind up. Had IB not had the heat issues, I might have spent the extra £30 on the CPU.

As it stands, I'm yet to fully appreciate my new setup, having had a DVD drive fail on my after 3 days, a GTX460 which refused to work with the new motherboard, but was quickly repaired by Gigabyte. Now my Intel SSD has decided that it doesn't want to play anymore, so it has just been sent for repair. By the time I get my system sorted, I reckon it'll be upgrade time again. :rolleyes:
 
Dervious said:
Seems I wasn't alone in going straight to SB, when I could have chosen IB.

There just wasn't enough performance gain for the extra money that IB + a good cooler would have cost. There was also a large element of the unknown. The reports of high temps were the reason that helped me make my mind up. Had IB not had the heat issues, I might have spent the extra £30 on the CPU.

As it stands, I'm yet to fully appreciate my new setup, having had a DVD drive fail on my after 3 days, a GTX460 which refused to work with the new motherboard, but was quickly repaired by Gigabyte. Now my Intel SSD has decided that it doesn't want to play anymore, so it has just been sent for repair. By the time I get my system sorted, I reckon it'll be upgrade time again. :rolleyes:
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i know how you feel, i got the hump with my old system due to bits failing all the time!

i ended upselling off the parts and buying a dell laptop with three years at home warranty to bide my time till i amassed a small fortune to start again (FYI laptop has not gone wrong once!!!! and is more powerfull than old system!).

im a month or two away from doing it and im temped to go SB, z77 set up
 
buzzlightweight said:
this discussion is doing my noodle in, im very close to buying my new rig and i dont know which way to go :(
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It seems it can be a bit more of a lottery if you get a good chip this time round, some are having high temps with a modest over clock but some are getting acceptable temps with 4.6, it's down to luck I think if you go IB, you could always DSR it if your not happy with what you get and then get a SB
 
I'm still undecided with regards to what to do! Since putting my cpu back in for diablo 3 tonight my compound application was obviously poor idle is now up around 25!
 
I keep going back and forth on this issue. I want to upgrade my [email protected] in a few weeks time with a watercooled 680 sli system but i still cant make my mind up, even high end water seems to do very little for IB. Im leaning towards a 9390k right now.
 
Got a 3570K @ 4.6GHz 1.35v, max @ 81C LINX and 3770K @ 4.6Ghz 1.33v, max of 78C LINX, both tested at 30C ambient, so much much cooler in real life. Cooled by NHD-14s, won't be keeping them as i'm happy with my 2600K @ 5GHz 1.38v and they're client builds, but can't say i'm dissapointed!
 
I think the reality is that the choice between IB & SB is not clear cut.

If you aren't keeping too close an eye on the budget, there is good reason to go for IB. If you are looking at the bang/buck ratio, SB looks tempting.

The truth is that Intel hasn't made it an easy choice. A little less heat (by not penny pinching on the thermal interface under the lid) might have made the argument for IB much stronger. Perhaps that's what they wanted, just enough to tempt people to go for the new CPU, but not enough to cause a lot of SBs to be left on the shelf. Or maybe they looked at what AMD were offering, and thought "that'll do, for now".
 
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