Life span of sandy bridge e 2011

[JasonKnights]

Hi there , I'm thinking of making a change to a 2011 setup. I mainly encode videos and play games on my system so I think the extra cores and threads will speed up my encode times. I'm just worried that perhaps later in the year ivy bridge e might come out. And my huge investment will become old hat! Does anyone know how long the 2011 systems will be around for?

 

[Jokester]

Presumably until Haswell-E based systems are out 2013/2014.

 

[Scon]

New CPU's wont make yours any slower, buy what you can afford, any SB-E CPU will fly through encoding.

 

[Saundie]

As for your comment about Ivy Bridge-E, it seems that Intel are not planning to release it within the next 12 months. There are various sources that state this if you care to search for them. For example, here's an excerpt from an xbitlabs article on the subject;

Those, who expected to upgrade their extreme-performance systems six-core Intel Core i7-3900-series "Sandy Bridge-E" LGA2011 chips inside with even faster "Ivy Bridge-E" chips later this year will probably have to wait until at least the second half of 2013, as Intel has no plans to launch new generation of enthusiast processors in 2012.

Given that Haswell mainstream processors are due sometime in 2013, it won't be until then that there will be anything close to exceeding SB-E. I can't see AMD putting out a viable alternative in that time frame, and there will not be any 6+ core Ivy Bridge processors.

 

[Yaayuh!]

I thought ivy bridge-e was q1 2013? Who said its got pushed back?