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Ivybridge underwhelming
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It will degradation your chip sooner because it 22nm chip!
True although your chips going to degrade anyway. If you can keep your temps at like 70~ then you could keep running that for years on end really... with a few adjustments here and there.
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Ivyfail...
Agree. Since building my Ivy rig yesterday I've yet to find a game that even comes close to pushing the CPU at stock speeds. Why anyone thinks they need a 5GHz overclock for gaming is beyond me.
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Depends on your perspective. Frankly, I think people have been a bit spoilt by Sandybridge; a few years ago, the idea of clocking a quad-core CPU at 5GHz for daily use would have been some kind of wild fantasy. I really don't think that a 4.5 GHz quad-core CPU is a fail, tbh.
What this does call into question is the way in which Intel rate the stock frequency. Why, say, 3.4 GHz when the chip will easily do 4 GHz at stock voltages? There's some artifice here.
What this does call into question is the way in which Intel rate the stock frequency. Why, say, 3.4 GHz when the chip will easily do 4 GHz at stock voltages? There's some artifice here.
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Moved from a Q6600 @ 3.5 and at stock my GPUs are now finally being driven properly by the 3570k. As above, no need to overclock at this stage until I have more powerful GPUs to drive that might need it. It runs at 4.0 without any voltage increase, will see tonight how far it can go on stock volts out of interest.
This is something that also baffles me. People said similar things about SB-E when it was released, because the i7-3930k doesn't reach 5GHz as easily as the 2700k does. Perhaps these people weren't around during the so called "gigahertz wars", where Athlons were crushing P4s running at much higher clock rates, and we learned that it's not all about raw clock rate.
Sorry to jump in - just a quick question which I didn't think was worth it's own thread.
I was all set to purchase either Sandy or Ivy as the basis of a brand new system to replace my PC which is coming up to seven years old. Am I correct in thinking that Haswell is likely to be a different socket?
I was all set to purchase either Sandy or Ivy as the basis of a brand new system to replace my PC which is coming up to seven years old. Am I correct in thinking that Haswell is likely to be a different socket?
I think most people understand its not about the clock however I believe lots of people build as a hobby/to bench etc.
Yep - I have a feeling a lot of the people saying "Ivy fail" are too young to remember those days
4+ GHz Pentiums being blown away by 2 GHz Athlons!
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Another assumption is that if you'Ve bought an Ivy CPU you must be mad moving from Sandy, when a lot of people like myself never bought Sandy and are upgrading from much older chips!
The 3770k vs 2600k is interesting because of the price gap, the 2500k and 3570k are so closely priced on most decent sites that for most the Ivy is the logical choice.
The 3770k vs 2600k is interesting because of the price gap, the 2500k and 3570k are so closely priced on most decent sites that for most the Ivy is the logical choice.
I grabbed my IB i7 when it was the same price as the SB i7s. winning on savings xD
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Yeh, a lot of the Z77 motherboards have crept up in price too.