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Anyone sent their IVY back and gone sandybridge?

unless i fail at logic, ivybridge is an improvement for the majority of users. intel made a mistake with the tim, but that's about it. other pros and cons have been listed in depth already, but i'll just say this: the tim can't dry out, unless the ihs and pcb(?) of the cpu is permeable in some way... just doesn't make sense.
 
I shall be keeping mine, I didn't swap from a Sandybridge though, I had a Lynnfield i5 750 before, at 3.6GHz, so Ivybridge is a wholesale upgrade for me.
 
Robozilla said:
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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By the time PCIE 3 is needed haswell or similar will be out, with a different socket..... again!
 
I bought 2700k ,1 week before IB came out , Was always the plan to get an IB with the Z77 board also purchased , But sitting on this delayed release time allowed a lot of thought , perhaps to much , but in that time going round in my head , the best plan was to sod the IB , at least for now , Go with the tried and tested 2700k , Im glad i did , im happy with it , and monitoring these threads IB is a mixed bag .
My conclusion is ill try to go this way round again , next upgrade ill buy seasoned CPU , and let the new release sort itself out , if at all , then consider down the line replacing with a revised improved stepping .
say later if a cooler better IB comes out , ill be interested in changing , if not no biggi , 2700k does the job .
 
AFAIK it's 7 days (or in OcUKs case, 14 days) to give notice of cancellation, and then either 28 or 30 days to return the product (I think its 28).

EDIT:

It's 7 days for notice of cancellation, return within 28 days, supplier must refund within 30 days. Confusing :rolleyes:
 
I've currently got my 2700k sat at 4.9Ghz. Asus have been really lame and removed VCCIO from the voltage options which hasn't thrilled me much.

Eitherway when I've not been baking for two hours solid the temps are around 70 under prime load. A little hot, but the heat is definately escaping as the fans on the h100 really do speed up now.

Happy so far, and again - if they bring out a cool running Ivy then perhaps I'll swap. As someone else put it - its easier to get rid of a cool sandy than a toasty ivy when the time comes.
 
Well, all that matters is that you're happy (and I think you got lucky with the SB too seeing as the latest ones seem to be struggling to get above 4.5ghz)

...though I think swapping 4.6ghz IB for a 4.9ghz SB is a lot of hassle for very little gain myself :)
 
Ivy only gets really hot with full load and high volts, the motherboards are pretty configurable though so you can tune it as you like.

My 3770 runs at 4.9 mostly dropping to 4.8 when fully loaded to help it stop throttling, this only happens during stress testing or long video encodes maxing out the CPU for ages which takes the temp to throttling point with all at 4.9Ghz. With that drop its hardly slow :D

When I am gaming the CPU is mostly sat at 4.9 and temps rarely go above 65, Ivy is not that bad. I will probably try to replace the TIM at some point to see if I can the CPU to 5-5.1Ghz stable but for now I am happy. (well happy is a relative term, can't really feel much difference over my old X6 except for benchmarks if I'm honest. )
 
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Well, all that matters is that you're happy (and I think you got lucky with the SB too seeing as the latest ones seem to be struggling to get above 4.5ghz)

...though I think swapping 4.6ghz IB for a 4.9ghz SB is a lot of hassle for very little gain myself :)
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The IB cpu wasn't stable at 4.6Ghz.
 
-Mike- said:
By the time PCIE 3 is needed haswell or similar will be out, with a different socket..... again!
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A lot of people upgrading may skip haswell and maybe next series after that (I know I will once I built my ivy system).

So future proofing for this is not a bad thing. I don't intend to rebuild my system for another 4 years after my ivy is done. Only thing that hope to change in this time is new gpu in 2 years (getting 670 when do build).
 
So whats the best option for OCing then? Ivy or SB? I have a water loop and I am looking into getting a new rig. I was going to go Ivy but having read though this thread I'm completely lost now.
 
-Mike- said:
I've currently got my 2700k sat at 4.9Ghz. Asus have been really lame and removed VCCIO from the voltage options which hasn't thrilled me much.

Eitherway when I've not been baking for two hours solid the temps are around 70 under prime load. A little hot, but the heat is definately escaping as the fans on the h100 really do speed up now.

Happy so far, and again - if they bring out a cool running Ivy then perhaps I'll swap. As someone else put it - its easier to get rid of a cool sandy than a toasty ivy when the time comes.
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Glad to see your happy now you have your sandy chip instead of the hot ivy chip.
 
Really a mixed bag, Risk it and see, if you aren't happy then there is always time to return, Personally I'd play safe with the SB, simply because I have had enough of degrading parts and if that tim dried out and the chip gradually got hotter I'd be mega peeved.

really down to what you need =)
 
Why do people think Intel made a mistake with TIM? I don't think so and I'm sure they thoroughly tested the application of it and integration with their processors and it WILL last along time, as will the processors.

Seems many people are getting good overclocks. Temperature may be a bit hotter but if within acceptable limits what's the issue ? :). By thetime the processors fail even running hotter than some would like it'll be worthless anyway.

It's a more technically advanced processor than the Sandybridge. Anyone returning an Ivy for the latter must be mad (IMO anyway :) )
 
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