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Ivy Bridge...How much?

you have to remember that clock for clock ib is faster

and clocked to 4.5ghz on ib = a 4.8 to 4.9ghz overclock on a sb cpu,if you have a good quality cooler then i cant see why you wouldnt run at 4.5ghz on ib
 
If the 3570k is priced at around the £160 mark, then that is what I will buy. I cannot justify the 3770K for my PC use.

I have a H100 waiting which I hope will be enough for 4.5 from this chip.
 
Krono5 said:
The 2500k should drop as if the 2600k is only £210 atm on OCUK that gives a good idea of what is to come and the first of many reductions. The hard part is getting the timing right between when they lower prices and when the chips become rare enough for prices to increase again.
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Intel don't drop prices, only products..........:mad:

The SB chips will be discreetly removed from the channel, they usually only get price drops if distributors can't sell them.
 
meh. I planed to build a good preforming quiet pc, so IB sounds good to me

hd7850 + 3570k + Samsung green ram sounds like cool and quiet overclocking fun to me (though with limits)
 
@ new boy I have the same ram waiting in my new build and I will at some point be switching to a cooler, quieter and more efficient GPU.

Moving from a Q6600 running 24/7 @ 1.44v, OCZ HPC 1066 ram @ 2.3v and CF 5850s etc, I should see a real difference in power draw. Bad news in the winter as it means I would need a heater instead of using my PC.
 
I suspect retailers will test the market at £170+, any higher makes no sense with 2500K available at <=£150.

But 3570K hitting £160 some time after launch is credible and it's still worth a little extra over SB if you need the HD4000 but don't need too high an overclock.

You can't exclude the motherboard (and cooler) from the price equation and some of the Z77s are almost at 2011 prices so the market won't stand >£180 for i5.
 
I got a good deal on my Asus Gene Z77 so I can't complain - it was a huge amount less than the same board on the X79 platform. I would like to think the i5 Ivy would be aggressively priced.

Gibbo sounded pretty certain that OCUK would be very competitive.

I think Intel still have a lot of users that they can convince to upgrade from Core 2 chips.

I am one of them.
 
If you are only running an ib at a fraction over stock volts @ 4.4 - 4.6GHz, does that imply that you could get away with a cheap motherboard without a million power phases?
 
wazza300 said:
you have to remember that clock for clock ib is faster

and clocked to 4.5ghz on ib = a 4.8 to 4.9ghz overclock on a sb cpu,if you have a good quality cooler then i cant see why you wouldnt run at 4.5ghz on ib
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I keep seeing that mentioned around here, but I have never seen any hard evidence to it.
 
The annoying thing with these IB temps is the greater pressure on cooling. The minimum requirement would seem like high end air, phanteks ph-tc14pe or alpenfohn k2, both tall coolers so that rules out sff. Water cooling is out unless you already have it as the cost would seem obsurd for the performance increase and on z77 / lga1155 which has no future beyond IB. If intel don't get the pricing right on IB I can only see the unlocked models being slow to shift. Their main saving grace seems more in the mass consumer market for those that use a computer for rather mundane tasks and will be happy with just igpu. Doesn't set a good presedence though, I wonder how much IB was influenced by Apple, whether we can expect a bigger gap to evolve between mainstream and the X79 esk enthusiast range.
 
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