Did Intel Make A Big Mistake With sandy Bridge?

[Andy7]

We all know that the Sandy Bridge chips were amazing when it came to overclocking. Some chips would hit 5Ghz on air.

Then Intel released Ivy Bridge and Haswell. Both were rather lame and disappointing as you didn't get much of a performance increase at stock and both would only overclock to around 4.2 to 4.4ghz at most.

The Devil's canyon chips promised 5ghz by Intel but failed big time 4.6ghz seems about tops for these chips.

Intel has gone down hill since Sandy Bridge in my opinion as they can't surpass it. Thoughts?

 

[Andy7]

I sent an E-mail to Intel about the poor thermal paste they were using on the Ivy Bridge platform and that people were taking them apart and putting better stuff on.

I never got a reply strangely enough. As a huge company they are really lame.

 

[Andy7]

Correct me if I am wrong?

Intel promised us all 5Ghz on air with the Devil's Canyon chips?

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-enthusiasts-devils-canyon-pc-cpu/

 

[Andy7]

Yep, sb and all previous chips are soldered. As are the skt 2011 enthusiast range.

What Intel are throwing at us now are basically ****.

Joke of a Company.

 

[Andy7]

Down hill in terms of my expectations, but their performance has increased (marginally)

5 per cent every platform they move to.

Not good enough for me sorry.

 

[Andy7]

Correct me if I am wrong on this:

If you have an i7 2600k clocked at 4.5Ghz or over you will not see a difference in gaming with Ivy or Haswell?

As for the newer 6 and 8 core chips I doubt you you would gain much with them gaming wise either.

 

[Andy7]

Probably not, benchmarks such as 3d mark 11 there will be an increase in physics/combined. As so few games use multithreading, you wont notice a big difference with x99 either.

This is exactly what I am trying to point out and is the purpose of my thread.

Intel have not given us anything better than Sandy Bridge from years ago.

 

[Andy7]

The problem with sandy bridge was it was so good (especially with the 2500K) and over clocked so well that, combined with AMD's weaker CPUs for gaming that gamers have had very little reason to upgrade in the last couple of years. This has probably lost Intel money.

That is exactly the way I see it. If you have an 2500k or 2600k you won't gain much by going to Ivy or Haswell as the gains are rather poor.