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Curious-looking Core i7-3910K LGA2011 Processor Surfaces

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Intel's Core i7 "Ivy Bridge-E" series may be less than two months away from seeing the light of the day, but in the run up to that, a curious-looking Core i7-3910K "Sandy Bridge-E" part cropped up on roadmaps with retailers. We're pretty sure it's not a typo misread by someone for "i7-3970X," because the list even mentions the S-spec code "SR0TN," which doesn't correspond with the "SR0WR" s-spec code of the i7-3970X.
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More - http://www.techpowerup.com/187696/curious-looking-core-i7-3910k-lga2011-processor-surfaces.html
 
smelly_legend said:
sb-e mainstream?

edit; I take it this is because of price?
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Yeah the only thing keeping people from buying LGA2011 at the moment is the £450 cost of the 3930K, if they can release a 3910K that overclocks like a demon for about £300-350 it makes the platform more appealing to the masses... or at least those who were going to splash £270 on a Haswell i7.
 
mmj_uk said:
Yeah the only thing keeping people from buying LGA2011 at the moment is the £450 cost of the 3930K, if they can release a 3910K that overclocks like a demon for about £300-350 it makes the platform more appealing to the masses... or at least those who were going to splash £270 on a Haswell i7.
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Indeed. But at that cheaper price bracket, wouldn't 3910k sway many potential buyers away from haswell, thus affecting latter's sale?
 
Its quite a cunning ploy TBH.

Intel quietly starts upping the prices slowly of its consumer socket Core i5 K series CPUs towards £200 and the Core i7 CPUs closer to £300,and then sells a cheaper six core CPU,which then makes it look better value,locking more and more people onto a more expensive socket.

I expect by the time we reach desktop Broadwell(or whatever is released in 2015 and 2016),they will have the consumer socket K series CPUs at over £200,and with more of the lower end desktop Celerons and Pentiums looking to be probably soldered onto the motherboards,you can see where the market for socketed Intel desktop CPUs is going.
 
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WingZero30 said:
Indeed. But at that cheaper price bracket, wouldn't 3910k sway many potential buyers away from haswell, thus affecting latter's sale?
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Probably but apart from raw CPU power due to the two extra cores Haswell is two generations newer and it also includes a GPU so it will still have a market, will Intel really mind if Haswell K series slows down a bit? they still have plenty of OEM's to sell Haswell chips to.

GoogalyMoogaly said:
And if it overclocks well, sway people away from the 3930k and 3970X
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Those with the money will be buying IB-E by then anyway, a 3910K would be a good way to get rid of the backlog of SB-E's dies.
 
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The is of course another possibility which admittedly sounds far too good to be true. IB-E works on current motherboards, has a better IMC, and reportedly a soldered IHS, the will be no "yeah the 3770k has great IPC but the 2700K clocks higher" scenario, the 48xx/49xx will simply be better than their SB-E counterparts. This means that nobody will want a SB-E once IB-E launched unless Intel drop the price, which would hurt IB-E sales/takeup, so its possible that the 3910k may simply be a firesale of chips binned for 3930k or higher usage /drool (Intel/AMD have done things like this before).
 
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