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Ivy Bridge Released 6th March?

Personally I don't mind these 'it will be out next month rumours' have managed to survive on Android internet for the last two months since my laptop died so another couple of months isn't too bad whilst I keep saving like a boss. Should have £2000 saved by the start of April which means some tidy kit whether that's Ivybridge or Sandybridge-E based we'll have to wait & see.

I'm just glad Monaco hasn't been released yet or I'd be in much more impatient!
 
So is it pretty much certain then that it's Romley and not ivy bridge? On the plus side it gives me more time to save rather than letting the credit card take the hit
 
The Romley platform will support Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), something that will spell doom for many SAS controller chips and their makers.
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A real shame they didn't do this 3 years ago before SSDs made SAS redundant ;) on the desktop platform!
 
I would be quite happy if that was the case... I'm waiting for it before I start my new build but then... there might not be the price wars of nVidia and AMD at the time which I'm hoping for... Hoping.
 
Was going to order a 2600k in 2 or 3 days time... Is it really worth the wait? I've got a laptop I can use till then but I'm desperate to get on and start playing battlefield.
 
Its not easy...if you buy now its still going to be damn fast and last for a long time...but will you be able to handle it in a months time when there might be something new and shiny out!

If you buy a good Z68 board you could always upgrade later to a ivy cpu in 6 months or whatever. Ivy is expected to be anywhere between 5-15% faster ish give or take.
 
lewis2701 said:
Was going to order a 2600k in 2 or 3 days time... Is it really worth the wait? I've got a laptop I can use till then but I'm desperate to get on and start playing battlefield.
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You could buy a 2500k and resell later/use as backup
But I'll be keeping my 2600k until Skylake, it'll last me quite a while
 
buy what you want when you because it you try to keep up with pc hardware you will always be waiting for something else....
 
jomiyo said:
Wake me when Haswell arrives..
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Agree. I'm not interested in a 5-10% speed bump on Ivy and the only real update is the intergrated GPU which power users don't use. Only benefits of Ivy is for laptops, better battery life and better intergrated GPU for people that don't want dedicated GPU.
 
Purgatory said:
Agree. I'm not interested in a 5-10% speed bump on Ivy and the only real update is the intergrated GPU which power users don't use. Only benefits of Ivy is for laptops, better battery life and better intergrated GPU for people that don't want dedicated GPU.
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I whole heartedly agree, however my brain disagrees... I just can't bring myself to order something knowing it will be "outdated" (which it most definitely won't be though) in the next few months.

I think it's one of those mental things that for some reason you insist you are going to be getting a better deal because it's newer but in reality there is likely no difference... but avast ye I be waiting for Ivy plank
 
Sandy won't be 'outdated' for at least another couple of years by any reasoned standard, looks to be the Q6600 of current times.
 
Mookzen said:
Sandy won't be 'outdated' for at least another couple of years by any reasoned standard, looks to be the Q6600 of current times.
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Yeah I agree. I'm on a Q6600 @ 3.8ghz and don't really need to upgrade.

I've got the itch to upgrade though because it's been so long since I built this comp so Ivybridge will probably be my next.
 
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