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Ivy Bridge processor line-up revealed

drunkenmaster said:
Am I missing something, a i3 2120 is £102, that would put a i3 2120k at call it £110...... double that is £220....... a i5 2500k is the whopping great big price of £155.

Nearly double? its not even close, and IF it was double, it offers........ near on double the performance.

If there was an i3 K version other than being cheaper it would be worse value in every single way. A i5 2500k offers near enough 100% more performance for(assuming a i3 K version was more expensive than a normal version) just under half as much more.

Yes the idea of a i3k version is intriguing but it wouldn't be good value, and while it would offer "enough" performance for many people it wouldn't last anywhere near as long as one that is almost 100% faster so if I built a i3 K based computer for my parents or an i5 K based computer, the i5 would last significantly longer and cost less in the long run anyway.

Now, if an i3 was £75 and a i3 K version was £80, its a viable alternative option in terms of value. For now I'd take a quad core phenom that can do 4Ghz at £65 over a £110 dual core that is faster in single thread, and similar or sometimes a tad slower in 4 threaded situations. Also for 90% of the people I'd recommend something slower for, parents, students, etc, £65 offers a lot more value than the £100 i3.
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Firstly, in my honest opinion the i3 2120 is a bit pointless with the premium charge for 200MHz extra...this should had been a i3 2100K. Any higher than £100~£110 price range, then I agree that the i5 2500K would most likely be a better option. I totally agree that having a i5 2500K would last much longer than a i3 2100K (if there was one), but you have to understand that from my point of view that I know I won't be spending like £400~£500 on graphic cards any time soon, so getting i5 2500K would mean paying extra £60~£70 up front with no extra performance on games with a single GPU card, so a i3 2100K at £100~ would have sufficed for my requirement- but I guess Intel deliberately not release a K-version for i3 precisely because they want people to pay the extra and get the i5s instead.

Second, while Phenom II X4 CPU are capable CPU, they are higher power consumption and much hotter, and performance suffer quite a lot when games don't make use of the 3rd and 4th core. Also, I don't get the talk of £65 Phenom II X4, unless you are talking 2nd hand, or I am missing something...and no, I don't considering the Phenom II X4 840/850 as Phenom II X4, as they are just rebadged Athlon II X4.

Thirdly, upgrade path is quite grim on AMD side, considering the performance of their current flagship CPUs.
 
The HD2500 is very close in performance to an HD3000:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i5-2500k-and-core-i7-2600k-review/19

Look at the 3DMarkVantage scores(1150 for HD2500 and 1295 for the HD3000).

Anandtech has mentioned that the HD4000 has 16 EU so if double the scores you will have around 2300 to 2600 points in 3DMarkVantage.

Looking at the second review,this is between the A4-3400 and the A6-3650. The A4 scores 2200 points and the A6 2600 points. Basically it means DX10 performance is between the 160 shader and 320 shader AMD IGPs.

However,it is the 3DMark11 scores which look quite low for the HD2500. Even doubling the DX11 performance would place in the same ball park as the A4-3400 IGP.

If the leaks of AMD increasing IGP speed by 30% across the range are true,then even the IGP in the Trinity A4 CPUs will probably be as quick as the top-end HD4000 IGP.
 
Going on previous CPU releases, how will the release of the i5-3570K effect the pricing of the 2500k?

I was planning to build a pc around february but thinking maybe i should hold off.
 
got myself msi z68-gd65-g3 just for ivy but are there improvements over sandy? i5k range wise? so far 77watt vs 95watt, will be also running cooler? and utilize pcie3.0. Anything else to be thrown in the mix? anyone? :)

TDevlin said:
Going on previous CPU releases, how will the release of the i5-3570K effect the pricing of the 2500k?

I was planning to build a pc around february but thinking maybe i should hold off.
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i am pretty sure prices for i5k's wont budge much, intel products are a bit like gold. Got mine cheap, might even make profit when going on ivy :D
 
Planning on going ivybridge too when they are released and flog my i5 2500k... Will only 6 mth old and with its stock cooler... In hindsight I probably could have waited tbh lol... Lots of new stuff march April time with series7xxx gfx being released too.
 
TDevlin said:
Going on previous CPU releases, how will the release of the i5-3570K effect the pricing of the 2500k?

I was planning to build a pc around february but thinking maybe i should hold off.
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It'll make the members market a good place to shop for a good second hand 2500k
 
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