Ivybridge underwhelming

GnollinZ · 2 May 2012 at 15:10

the_director said:
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.

Indeed - I went from an Athlon X2 4200+ (from 2006?) to a i7-3770K. It's fair to say I've noticed a slight increase in speed

Ollie1132 · 2 May 2012 at 15:12

reddev85 said:
Heh, I hadn't noticed the price of the 3770K had creeped up a bit, think it was £249.99 when I ordered it on sunday.

It's gone up by like £10 and the 2700k has dropped to like £230.. was like damn.. ahah. I have a feeling this is the price IB is probably going to stay being sold at.

chippy08 · 2 May 2012 at 15:15

Ivyfail fail fail.

Ollie1132 · 2 May 2012 at 15:16

chippy08 said:
Ivyfail fail fail.

Only idiots who haven't properly researched IB call it a fail. And a few reviews is not proper research.

chippy08 · 2 May 2012 at 15:22

Ollie1132 said:
Only idiots who haven't properly researched IB call it a fail. And a few reviews is not proper research.

Only idiots buy Ivy Bridge

davieg · 2 May 2012 at 15:26

Oh bugger, take it I should revive my old AMD system now and return my Ivy all this fail talk is reminding me of a BD thread.

PS Not really am more than happy with my purchase, not had a real play with it on the OC front bar just knocking the multi up. Less heat in my WC loop overall too so my fans are actually able to run lower than before.

Hostile-17 · 2 May 2012 at 15:27

Merlin5 said:
Learn to type.

LOL

Ollie1132 · 2 May 2012 at 15:27

chippy08 said:
Only idiots buy Ivy Bridge

Really? So Im not going to be overclocking it that greatly. So near stock speeds OH really good temps there. Less power consumption better IGPU. Hmm so far I see this as advantageous if Im honest.

prescott28 · 2 May 2012 at 15:35

chippy08 said:
Only idiots buy Ivy Bridge

Thanks for the complement. Perhaps you might expand on your comment, though - why would a person buying an Ivy be an idiot? Explain yourself - this is a discussion forum not a place to insult people.

Ollie1132 · 2 May 2012 at 15:37

prescott28 said:
Thanks for the complement. Perhaps you might expand on your comment, though - why would a person buying an Ivy be an idiot? Explain yourself - this is a discussion forum not a place to insult people.

Don't bother with him he won't be able to justify it as with a lot of Ivy haters he probably thinks the IB chips heat up outrageously below 4.6Ghz.

Wucked · 2 May 2012 at 15:42

Successful troll is successful. You will keep feeding them, wont you...

spankingtexan · 2 May 2012 at 15:51

Is ivy really fail? I personally wouldn't buy one at this time but only because I have a SB and I'm more than happy with it, the heat is a slight disadvantage because it prevents from oc higher, but I agree 4.6ghz is hardly a bad overclock so any one coming from a lesser chip than sandy just make your choice and be happy with it.

I await to see if the heat issue will improve with a revised ivy, fingers crossed.

Locky · 2 May 2012 at 15:54

Only idiots buy IVB when they have SB.

chippy08 · 2 May 2012 at 15:54

Ollie1132 said:
Don't bother with him he won't be able to justify it as with a lot of Ivy haters he probably thinks the IB chips heat up outrageously below 4.6Ghz.

Its not 4.6ghz thats the problem but once you start looking for higher then you will heat your room up nicely.

Krono5 · 2 May 2012 at 16:00

chippy08 said:
Its not 4.6ghz thats the problem but once you start looking for higher then you will heat your room up nicely.

No you won't.

Ollie1132 · 2 May 2012 at 16:01

Locky said:
Only idiots buy IVB when they have SB.

Very true it's never worth upgrading from a tick to a tock.

Ollie1132 · 2 May 2012 at 16:02

chippy08 said:
Its not 4.6ghz thats the problem but once you start looking for higher then you will heat your room up nicely.

Not really going to be going past 4.6/4.7 depending on how well my chip does for stability on as low vcore as I can get at those speeds.

spankingtexan · 2 May 2012 at 16:05

Locky said:
Only idiots buy IVB when they have SB.

I can't help thinking that early adapters of ivy will be feeling a little cheesesd off if a Cooler ivy comes along in a couple of months or so.

Ollie1132 · 2 May 2012 at 16:07

spankingtexan said:
I can't help thinking that early adapters of ivy will be feeling a little cheesesd off if a Cooler ivy comes along in a couple of months or so.

If it does Ill figure a way to get my hands on one with no expense... some how

chippy08 · 2 May 2012 at 16:39

Ollie1132 said:
Not really going to be going past 4.6/4.7 depending on how well my chip does for stability on as low vcore as I can get at those speeds.

Well they say even the best coolers cant handle ivy bridge so just watch them temps if you run stability programmes.