*****Official Ivybridge Review Thread*****

[hyperst]

Most of the reviews are of the 3770k not the 3570k, Bit Tech are normally pretty reliable.

Yeah noticed that too, not looking to spend that kinda money on a cpu, would have thought they would know most people look at the lower end chip for gaming and over clocking performance, unless the 3570k is just not worth bothering with over the 2500k or they cannot get it to be appealing once over clocked.

 

[james_ati]

Could be that HT pushes the core over the edge temperature wise.

That was my thoughts... If bit tech are reliable and they are getting 5ghz out of their 3570k it could be interesting...

 

[chief barker]

Games for the most part are GPU limited these days, so getting an IB isn't really going to do much for you.

Gpu limited in BF3 64 players in multiplayer? People need to understand that it's not all about the gpu's.

 

[thenewoc]

Wonder what the likehood is of an unlocked IB with smaller igpu or no igpu later in the year? It seems there's a few missing sku's in the unlocked range. Am sure the same was said with SB but it seems this time round the increased igpu has polarised the problem.

 

[new boy]

Wonder what the likehood is of an unlocked IB with smaller igpu or no igpu later in the year? It seems there's a few missing sku's in the unlocked range. Am sure the same was said with SB but it seems this time round the increased igpu has polarised the problem.

If the pricing follows that of the 2550k then who cares?

 

[ussff]

Wonder what the likehood is of an unlocked IB with smaller igpu or no igpu later in the year? It seems there's a few missing sku's in the unlocked range. Am sure the same was said with SB but it seems this time round the increased igpu has polarised the problem.

..just getting into this igpu lark - so forgive me if this is odd! Do you mean the equiv of a i5 2550k being missing?

 

[thenewoc]

Well with a smaller or non existant igpu the transistors would have more room to surely disipate heat better and oc better.

 

[ussff]

thanx new boy

 

[thenewoc]

There should be 4 additional sku's. i7 & i5 with hd2000 ish igpu plus i7 & i5 without igpu. Also hd4000 should have been trickled down to the mid range i5 & i7.

 

[King Damager]

Hm, certainly won't be buying one of these when I make the ATX to mATX and hence p67 to z77 jump later this year. 2500k seems just as good, if not (dare I day it) better....

kd

 

[Secret_Window]

Quite disappointed to be honest. Not as good as all the hype and build up led me to believe. Basically, if I didn't have the 2500k it would be looking great, but the improvement is so small it just is not worth it. In the stuff that I want the performance in, I'd be better off going the Sandy-Bridge-E route and getting a 12 core CPU.

 

[Zaphrod]

Well there certainly is a lot of chaff to sift through in these reviews and none of them actually say anything we didn't already know. Where are the reviews benching the max stable clock vs max OC 2600k/2700k in games and where are the temperature charts.

I had a gut feeling on Saturday and so bought a 2700k for £227 and now I am glad I did, its gone up significantly in price today.

Do we have prices on the 3770 yet?

 

[ussff]

I had a gut feeling on Saturday and so bought a 2700k for £227 and now I am glad I did, its gone up significantly in price today.

...arrgh!!!! that nagging feeling of prices going UP is not arthiritus That's another boat sailing that I'm not on...

 

[bhavv]

Well I have to say that I'm exceptionally impressed with what I see in these reviews for the IB .....

Because it shows me that I made the right desision to stick to X58 even with how much sandybridge was tempting me, and I don't have any regret for buying an I7 980

I was expecting that this chip would completely put my CPU to shame with it being 22 nm, but its hardly any better than 32 nm Intel CPUs.

 

[Cythx]

Well there certainly is a lot of chaff to sift through in these reviews and none of them actually say anything we didn't already know. Where are the reviews benching the max stable clock vs max OC 2600k/2700k in games and where are the temperature charts.

I had a gut feeling on Saturday and so bought a 2700k for £227 and now I am glad I did, its gone up significantly in price today.

Do we have prices on the 3770 yet?

2700k are £230~

 

[Zaphrod]

2700k are £230~

The price did rise to £238 for a short time and are now £233, still an increase.

 

[hiyajac]

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/2680/intel-core-i7-3770k--i5-3570k--i5-3550-ivy-bridge-review

 

[Krono5]

So I've just been looking through the Intel datasheets on the 3rd gen processors and it looks like the Tj max has been increased to 105c and the Tcase max lowered to 67.4 on the 3*70k's compared to SB's 100c and 72.4c respectively. Make of that what you will...

 

[Locky]

I see this not worth me upgrading from a I7 970 Hex at 4.4?

 

[alex_123_fra]

There is little doubt that at stock speeds the 3770K seems to outperform the 2700k and 2500k (not to mention 3930K and 3960X) in virtually all benchmarks.

The vast majority of users aren't looking for huge overclocks and would happily settle for 4.5GHz or thereabouts. The biggest question is can the Ivybridge chips reliably provide this with small voltage increases and no heat issues. None of the reviews are able to tell us this and it will take time before users start posting their own experiences. If the Ivybridge chips prove to be reliable overclockers with small voltage increases, the vast majority of users will be happy.