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Ivy Bridge a tad disappointing

Been posted here recently.

I think the jury is still "having a think" on the IB chips. I'm waiting for delivery of a SB chip, having decided if I wait for the "latest and greatest", I'll wait forever. Having said that, if the initial reports on IB were more favourable, I would have waited.
 
For overclockers, this cpu doesnt really offer anything over SB.
At stock however, it is faster than the SB.
Once overclocked to the max, the IB and SB perform about the same.
Also don't forget that it can run 3 monitors, off its on-die GPU (if you plan to do away with a video card).

For me, its all about price.
Whichever is cheaper is the one that I would buy.
 
Only makes the 2500k a more stonking investment for those who didn't wait. I wouldn't call IB a disappointment, it delivers on all promises performance, feature and power use wise. Not keen on the Intel Insider stuff embedded in it though
 
Disco Boy said:
It's a pretty standard "tick"... I don't see why anyone would be expecting much more.
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people have been talking about ib for awhile now - remember last year people suggested it would be a ocing beast since smaller - now we know.

remember people saying bd better kick butt better then SB because ivy is around the corner and will be even faster ... well bulldozer didnt kick and ivy isnt faster.
 
Many people are saying IB uses less power. I'm not so sure about this.
I was looking at some benchmarks which relate to power usage and at the wall socket, the IB was using more power than the SB equivalent (both cpus overclocked).

The least power usage was by the 2500k, using the onboard GPU.
The highest power usage was by the 3770k, using an add-on video card.

Do bear in mind though, that we are talking about a 10W difference, so it is next to nothing.
 
I take it you mean after adjustment of the addin gfx's power draw?

If I were to speculate, which I am, couldn't this be down to the additional transistors of IB over SB.
 
sunama said:
For overclockers, this cpu doesnt really offer anything over SB.
At stock however, it is faster than the SB.
Once overclocked to the max, the IB and SB perform about the same.
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i agree

my understanding was that SB can handle high voltages better though?
 
eddyr said:
I take it you mean after adjustment of the addin gfx's power draw?

If I were to speculate, which I am, couldn't this be down to the additional transistors of IB over SB.
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I shall dig out that review where I saw those figures. But I was surprised.
 
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