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Sandy Bridge Dated

kgi said:
What I can't understand is how such a big corporation can miss the Xmas sales window. Perhaps someone from marketing or sales can shed some light on this. Why wouldn't they try their hardest to make sure they have whatever new tech available before Xmas so they can capitalise on people spending loads of money? Surely bringing it after Xmas is going to hurt the sales as people will have overspent already.

There must be a reason - and suggesting that they couldn't is unlikely in my opinion.
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Maybe they have already brought forward to get to Jan 5th? Maybe they would have had to launch it months before Christmas to get it to retail in time. Maybe the mainstream, where the money is, don't really care what CPU they have. Most people I know don't even know if they have AMD or Intel. In fact most have never heard of either! The enthusiast market, while vocal, is pretty small in revenue terms...
 
I'm waiting for the 22nm Ivy League chips to be released Q4 next year...
As for Sandy Bridge, limiting the overclocking potential on chip is bad news. Have you guys heard about buying a "Intel Card" from a store, enter the code in and it could increase the speed of the CPU? Do you think thats why they are limiting overclocking potential?
 
Robert said:
Have you read the thread?
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I did Robert, I took the 5th January as the date for preview at CES and not retail sales date. Saying "launch off point" is normally associated with tech demos. The story wasn't exactly rich in detail compared to the link below.

ie. "..Intel has finally come forward with a release date for its new chips, these being set for a January 5, 2011 launch..."
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Inte...ocessors-Set-to-Launch-January-5-166668.shtml

Btw, I glad its out 5th January as I'm well overdue a new PC :)
 
coldfused said:
I'm waiting for the 22nm Ivy League chips to be released Q4 next year...
As for Sandy Bridge, limiting the overclocking potential on chip is bad news. Have you guys heard about buying a "Intel Card" from a store, enter the code in and it could increase the speed of the CPU? Do you think thats why they are limiting overclocking potential?
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I was going to hold out for Ivy but the later revision of SB at Q4 2011 (38GB/s for highend desktop or 51GB/s for servers on 8-cores/16-threads) its a hell of a wait when SB (21GB/s 4-cores/8-threads) will do a great job now with improved optimisation for multimedia jobs.

I read (from many reports) that the current processors takes minutes to encode media but that SB will take seconds. Found this article which says: "The video encode engine is a brand new addition to Sandy Bridge. Intel is being light on the details of the encoder but we saw a demo where Intel took a ~3 minute 1080p 30Mbps source video and transcoded it to a 640 x 360 iPhone video format. The total process took 14 seconds and completed at a rate of roughly 400 frames per second. "
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3922/intels-sandy-bridge-architecture-exposed/6

Were nearing the point whereby consumers aren't getting bottlenecks. This in future will negate any need to overclock as the number of cores increases and Intel continues to optimise/evolve the chip.
 
SpriteAlpha said:
I'm only partially excited over the first batch of processors. I'm not sure if these are meant to 'out-do' the current i7 chips. Though they'll give us an idea of what can be done with this new archtecture, which has me interested as I'm most excited about the Ivy Bridge CPUs - I expect (well, hope) them to be performance beasts.
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true thats a lot of $ intel lost however there Core i3/i5/i7 lineup is still doing well so there proberly just gonna get rid of the old stuff before leaping on the new stuff.

I would love to wait for the newer highend/new intel socket however its due fall 2011 and I cant be bothered to wait no longer soon as Core i7-2 arrives I hope Ocuk will offer some amazing Core i7-2 4.5ghz+ Bundles ;)
 
HighlandeR said:
true thats a lot of $ intel lost however there Core i3/i5/i7 lineup is still doing well so there proberly just gonna get rid of the old stuff before leaping on the new stuff.

I would love to wait for the newer highend/new intel socket however its due fall 2011 and I cant be bothered to wait no longer soon as Core i7-2 arrives I hope Ocuk will offer some amazing Core i7-2 4.5ghz+ Bundles ;)
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what exactly is i7-2? i googled it days ago and got nothing just other processors.
 
The integrated GPUs can be disabled though, right? I'm sure I've seen a review where they were able to overclock the CPU more by disabling the GPU (since it produced less heat).
 
The idea of a CPU / GPU combo chip is stupid to me why would they put a gpu on a cpu when they could run double the cpu's ? and the cooling would be easier this is a step back not forward everytime you want a new video card in the future you'll have to upgrade both the cpu and gpu which will be expensive end of the day it's all to spin money for intel so they can sell more chips it's a stupid idea. intel have a crap history in making GPU's end off. Bad idea is BAD.
 
Maybe I'm missing something here. But except for desktop PCs (rather then gaming machines) I just don't see the point in an integrated GPU! It's just something I would have to disable!

Think AMD Bulldozer looks a much more interesting proposition.
 
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