i5 3570K quick test.

Subliminal Aura · 27 Apr 2012 at 18:03

RavenXXX2 said:
Agreed, it basically offers nothing over a 2500k apart from slightly lower power consumption, better IGPU ' no use to 99% of people who buy a K chip ' and fractional better performance, but runs hotter than a 2500k when clocked.

Better IGP which render videos 2 times faster than an Nvidia 680.

Anyone serious about video encoding will be eyeing up the 3x70k over the SB any day of the week

EDIT In fact ... That's exactly what I'll be doing trading up to an IB

KiiYzOo · 27 Apr 2012 at 18:38

woo just got enough to be able to get a 3570k on sunday

Buckster · 27 Apr 2012 at 18:42

Jokester said:
There should be plenty of stock of IB as it wasn't delayed due to production delays, but to allow stock of SB to be sold off first before it was released.

"should" be ? what makes you so sure ?

sunama · 27 Apr 2012 at 18:52

Based on the past, Intel usually flood the market with their new products, on release date (unlike AMD).

KiiYzOo · 27 Apr 2012 at 18:55

and nvidia^

Jokester · 27 Apr 2012 at 19:27

Buckster said:
"should" be ? what makes you so sure ?

Intel have said so.

bulldog147 · 27 Apr 2012 at 19:54

Forget Ivy! Stick to Sandybridge or your current spec!

KiiYzOo · 27 Apr 2012 at 20:02

what an asus p8p67 le and a pentium g620?

ussff · 27 Apr 2012 at 23:20

the_director said:
No wonder OCUK bumped up the price of the 2600k from £209 at the start of the week. That may well have been a great bargain missed.

...my nightmare starts to come true!

SB slipping out of reach - even though I've kept my eye on it. Its the "Bulldozer release blues as I searched for a PhenomII" :rolleyes:

all over again! At least this time I'm watching it unflod instead of missing the bus by 6 months and getting a whopping shock!

Ollie1132 · 27 Apr 2012 at 23:36

Bulldog so many people are upgrading from Q6600's and E6XX series processors... Ivy IS a big up from that just because you don't understand how well it actually performs doesn't mean we should skip it.

stulid · 27 Apr 2012 at 23:49

If you are upgrading from something old (Core Duo, Athlon X2, X4, etc) then its silly not to jump on the Ivybridge bandwagon if the price isnt bad.

If you have a 2500K/2600K already, dont bother.

If the 2500K/2600K get back to the price they were last summer (2500K@£155) then get one of those.

Ollie1132 · 27 Apr 2012 at 23:52

Im still tempted to wait for IB to get more mature and the production process to get better. I also read somewhere that IB processors have a layer of thermal paste under the IHS.

jwsg · 28 Apr 2012 at 08:43

I'm worried that this is wishful thinking. I think I read there were no new steppings for SB after launch and with a 12 month product cycle there is little time. You can say that Haswell is IB refined. There is an errata (bug) list, it wouid be these that a newer stepping would address if needed.

The mobiles, i3s and more i5 and i7 will be released as the year goes on. Some might be expected to have different packaging, but if a desktop i5 or i7 part is released with a change that improves thermal transfer - suggesting aceptance of shortcomings in the initial models - then I'd imagine more than a little pressure for a warranty exchange esp. in the US.

One reason I'll hold off for now is if the i5K/i7K price is >= 180/260 tomorrow (the ITX MBs arent around yet anyway).

spankingtexan · 28 Apr 2012 at 12:09

bulldog147 said:
not all of them thought, most cpu only do 4.4GHz and cannot gone above that depend on board and chip.

I think you'd have to be incredibly unlucky to get a SB that couldn't hit 4.6ghz, my view is that most SB are incredible oc's and high oc's to 4.6ghz can be very easy achieved with a £20 air cooler.

spankingtexan · 28 Apr 2012 at 12:30

To all those who want to jump on the ivy bandwagon it may be a good idea to check in the MM for all those selling up to get cash for the SB. Lol

bulldog147 · 28 Apr 2012 at 12:38

spankingtexan said:
I think you'd have to be incredibly unlucky to get a SB that couldn't hit 4.6ghz, my view is that most SB are incredible oc's and high oc's to 4.6ghz can be very easy achieved with a £20 air cooler.

mine can get 5ghz no problem with 1.38v, i get rid of my other sb chip (sold) as it couldnt pass 4.4ghz but my new sb chip can get 5ghz

spankingtexan · 28 Apr 2012 at 12:42

bulldog147 said:
mine can get 5ghz no problem with 1.38v, i get rid of my other sb chip (sold) as it couldnt pass 4.4ghz but my new sb chip can get 5ghz

That's a brill vcore for 5ghz, I can get mine stable on those volts at 4.9ghz but need 1.4v for 5ghz.

Ollie1132 · 28 Apr 2012 at 12:46

spankingtexan barely any of us have access to the MM...

spankingtexan · 28 Apr 2012 at 12:48

bulldog147 said:
mine can get 5ghz no problem with 1.38v, i get rid of my other sb chip (sold) as it couldnt pass 4.4ghz but my new sb chip can get 5ghz

That's a brill vcore for 5ghz, I can get mine stable on those volts at 4.9ghz but need 1.4v for 5ghz.

covenantuk · 28 Apr 2012 at 14:22

Subliminal Aura said:
Would be awesome if that were true... wikipedia prices it at $225 so I cannot see it being less that £180.

With rip off Britain prices ... I'll stick my neck out and predict £199.98

Couple it with a SATA3 SSD and you'll be done for speeding. You're in for some good times with that upgrade

Well, we will know tomorrow but the only UK price I've seen popped up briefly on Google Product Search at £186.80 at an average-price vendor - assume they were updating website and Google grabbed it before they could hide it.

At £180+, it's not worth it imo and I'll buy a i5 SB, then possibly an top-end IB after Haswell launches and they start to drop in price.