anymore info? im curious as to what setup you had before ping wise etc as im quite fussy but i never notice anything wrong with online lan apart from 10ms ping spikes in TF2 brawls.it normally settles right down to 32ms again though.
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anymore info? im curious as to what setup you had before ping wise etc as im quite fussy but i never notice anything wrong with online lan apart from 10ms ping spikes in TF2 brawls.it normally settles right down to 32ms again though.
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Still waiting any one no ruffly when this is coming out
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Agree with many here, seems so weird to push the most expensive mobo's platform as last gen chips.
I really can't understand the new model for Intel of releasing the high end more core chips 3 quarters after the midrange.
Last year you had high end first, midrange next, then the move to hex cores only went on the high end platform. Basically high end changes always came first, thats been the same way for basically 2 decades of chip releases.
Intel switched it, now a quad core Sandy bridge is much closer to a hexcore i7 Nehalem, the lines are very blurred, which is faster, due to quicksync there are times the Sandybridge chips utterly wipe the floor with the older but higher end hex cores.
So now Intel and partners are pushing ultra high end Nehalem platforms, but they aren't the newest chips and people can't really see the point in them.
Even Ivy bridge, the 8/hexcores are coming as Sandybridge in Q4, so Oct-December, then Jan-March Ivy bridge is launching, but again only up to quad core.
The midrange is bigger volume and overall FAR FAR more profit, but the high end platforms have become almost pointless, at least till Haswell, which seems to be midrange first aswell, but they are moving 8 cores down to midrange.
The even weirder thing is, 8core/4core, the architecture is the same, there doesn't really seem to be much reason they should be 9 months apart in release time.
It would be like AMD launching only 4 core Bulldozers, while also pushing new 8 core Phenoms, Intel's old usual release style, high end first always worked fine, not sure why they changed.
I really can't understand the new model for Intel of releasing the high end more core chips 3 quarters after the midrange.
Last year you had high end first, midrange next, then the move to hex cores only went on the high end platform. Basically high end changes always came first, thats been the same way for basically 2 decades of chip releases.
Intel switched it, now a quad core Sandy bridge is much closer to a hexcore i7 Nehalem, the lines are very blurred, which is faster, due to quicksync there are times the Sandybridge chips utterly wipe the floor with the older but higher end hex cores.
So now Intel and partners are pushing ultra high end Nehalem platforms, but they aren't the newest chips and people can't really see the point in them.
Even Ivy bridge, the 8/hexcores are coming as Sandybridge in Q4, so Oct-December, then Jan-March Ivy bridge is launching, but again only up to quad core.
The midrange is bigger volume and overall FAR FAR more profit, but the high end platforms have become almost pointless, at least till Haswell, which seems to be midrange first aswell, but they are moving 8 cores down to midrange.
The even weirder thing is, 8core/4core, the architecture is the same, there doesn't really seem to be much reason they should be 9 months apart in release time.
It would be like AMD launching only 4 core Bulldozers, while also pushing new 8 core Phenoms, Intel's old usual release style, high end first always worked fine, not sure why they changed.
Interestin arguments being made, but intel are not going to just drop development of other processors and mobos just cause the mighty sandy bridge has arrived. people still like a choice. Got a 2500k myself but I know people who would not touch them with a bardge pole after recent announcements.
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