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Sandy bridge benchmarks

Cheers Andi, your summary was much appreciated :)

As for something to stress the processor, f@h aside I've written some poor matlab code that takes a very long time to run. It's only single threaded, but that one core is going flat out for quite a long time. I seem to remember mathematica taking six hours on a problem at 4ghz, but I didn't check how multithreaded that was. Pretty strong indication that I should have stuck with my e8400 really.
 
Do you guys think its better to go with the Sandybridge thats coming in Jan/Feb, then to wait for the Socket 2011 release ?

Ive been hearing about Ivy Bridge coming fall 2011/early 2012, is that gonna be released on Socket 1155 or 2011, would hate to buy a socket 1155 and then the newer cpus only ship for socket 2011....
 
HighlandeR said:
Do you guys think its better to go with the Sandybridge thats coming in Jan/Feb, then to wait for the Socket 2011 release ?

Ive been hearing about Ivy Bridge coming fall 2011/early 2012, is that gonna be released on Socket 1155 or 2011, would hate to buy a socket 1155 and then the newer cpus only ship for socket 2011....
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Okay, this is my understanding:

There are supposed to be new sockets coming out after LGA 1155, one of which being LGA 1356, which will use use higher-end Sandy Bridge CPUs. This platform will be the successor to socket 1366 / i7 9x CPUs. (There are other sockets coming out around the same time, such as LGA 2011 - which is even more high-end (1 more QPI connection and 2 more gen 3 PCI-e connections) but this will be aimed at the server market.) Following that, Ivy Bridge will be released which is a 22nm die shrink of SB. Ivy Bridge will retain LGA 1155 socket compatibility.

If anyone can confirm or deny any of this, please go ahead.
 
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Yup that is the magicly question will ivy bridge still work on a socket 1155 motherboard ?

It seems according to rumour its more designed for higher end systems.... meaning for X58 replacement.
 
HighlandeR said:
Yup that is the magicly question will ivy bridge still work on a socket 1155 motherboard ?

It seems according to rumour its more designed for higher end systems.... meaning for X58 replacement.
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Sounds like it's going to be like i7's currently the full fat ones will be on their own socket. Maybe cut down Ivy Bridge on the 1155 socket?
 
yeah I reckon ivybridge will perhaps be migrated for both mid-high end motherboards and both sockets eventually.

Lets hope Sandybridge is good, the only pain in the neck is if one goes out and buys it in early 2011 and then few months later AMDS BD prooves much better !
 
Im more looking forward to Ivybridge than Sandybridge simply because the Ivybridge tech seems a larger worthwhile upgrade over existing i3 i5 i7 tech.

While Sandybridge is commendable in its power saving and igp improvements im struggling to see the benefit for desktops much like Bulldozer?
 
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