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Ivy fail

I gave up waiting and just coupled my Z77 board with a 2700k , sits at 4.5ghz cool at 1.3v , i know if i need it it can go further , and peace of mind that its tried and tested , For me i think i made the right decision .
 
It's hardly a fail, for everyone but Overclockers it has nothing but advantages over the generation it replaces. Enthusiasts are such a small portion of the market anyway.
 
For people like me who aren't throwing on high overclocks right from the get-go, having a chip that is cooler and a bit faster at stock than an equiv. SB, that can potentially be overclocked moderately later on down the line is great (especially as I have an ancient machine right now). Not a fail really, unless you are just getting the CPU to OC straight away.
 
AndyH_Lufc said:
It's hardly a fail, for everyone but Overclockers it has nothing but advantages over the generation it replaces. Enthusiasts are such a small portion of the market anyway.
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Thats True, though it seems the vastly bigger proportion of this forum, as one would expect.

I don't see it as a fail what-so-ever. The graphical capabilities of the chip are incredible.
 
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ivy-bridge-benchmark-core-i7-3770k,review-32428.html

It performs just as I expected it. I had a feeling the smaller process would make it a little harder to overclock, but it's nice to see it can still reach 4.5ghz. And since it's simply a die shrink of SB with a beefier GPU, CPUwise it performs only a little better.

If you're getting a gaming system with a discrete card, just get whatever's cheaper, not much difference between SB and IB from the looks of things.
 
coughs said:
How is IB vs SB for just gaming? I couldn't give a **** about overclocking
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There will be no noticeable difference, over clocked or at stock for some games, one review shows BF3, it show's the same score for an over clocked IB as a stock IB, more to do with GPU.

But I think I will still be buying IB, I have the z77 board so why not, plus getting a new sata3 ssd and some samsung memory to hopefully get the memory to about 2400Mhz on IB.
 
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Doomedspeed said:
The graphical capabilities of the chip are incredible.
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Not really. Even a £90 Llano CPU is faster and it does that with a much slower CPU section too.This is despite it using a 32NM process which has had issues with higher clockspeeds.

Anandtech tested the mobile HD4000 and it only traded blows with the HD6620G,since the AMD laptop tested had slower 1333MHZ RAM in a 4GB+2GB arrangement and the Core i7 laptop used a pair of 1600MHZ DIMMs.

Even then the HD4000 consumed more power.

The latest production stepping devoted even more of the CPU to the IGP:

http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2012_04_19_Ivy_Bridges_GPU_2-25_times_Sandys.html

If you look at the desktop lineup,almost all the CPUs use the significantly slower HD2500 IGPs, and the HD4000 IGP tested in the Core i7 3770K is higher clocked than the HD4000 IGP in the Core i5 3570K and the Core i3 3225. The latter is still months away.
 
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Ollie1132 said:
Fail really? So the 4.5Ghz of the IB chips performs the same as the 4.8Ghz of a SB... AHERPADERP.
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With more expensive cooling?? So a cheaper Core i5 2500K with a cheaper cooler will do the job. The only thing is power consumption will be lower with the overclocked IB CPUs I suspect.

Since I don't overclock,an IB Core i7 or Xeon E3 V2 looks like a good upgrade path for me from my Core i3 2100. I have a SFF PC so the lower TDP at stock clockspeeds is useful for me.
 
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