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Poll: So who shall be buying IvyBridge?

Will you be buying Ivybridge?

  • I won't be buying Ivybridge

    Votes: 281 60.8%

  • I shall be buying an Ivybridge CPU

    Votes: 42 9.1%

  • I shall be buying an Ivybridge CPU, motherboard and maybe more

    Votes: 120 26.0%

  • I shall buy an OcUK Ivybridge Bundle

    Votes: 12 2.6%

  • I shall buy an OcUK Ivybridge System

    Votes: 7 1.5%
  • Total voters
    462
Well I got the board ready, Asus z77 gene from Oc, it's all going to come down to reviews and the over clock potential, I have the custom water loop all ready so cooling is no problem, but if it cannot out do a decent 2500k clock for clock I will save my money and get a second hand SB.

There is lots of rumours about over clocking and temps and your opening post looks very optimistic compared to everything else I have read, 4.5-4.8 on air?

Lots of my findings have said that even at 4.5 temps are too high and even unstable on some.
 
Im still mulling it over.

Is PCI-E 3.0 (I run a single card) and a better IGPU really worth it if they don't clock as high and run hotter?

Probably not is the answer, but I do like new toys to play with....so I'm undecided as yet.

If my H100 can handle the higher temps, that would be a bonus.
 
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My q6600 @ 3.5 is fine for most things, although it is bottlenecking my GPUs somewhat, but I wanted a tidy, efficient build whilst my older stuff still had some value left. Plus buying more DDR2 ram is expensive.
 
Gibbo said:
On custom H20 solutions with dual/triple rads, powerful pumps and decent fans then OC is similar to Sandybridge, in the region of 4.70-5.00GHz stable and maybe a little over 5GHz, temps should remain sub 75c ideally with such solutions.
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The reason I'll be staying Sandy, can hit 5.2ghz stable peaking at 60c stress / sub 50c gaming under water. Currently sitting around 48c stress 39c gaming at 4.8ghz. Granted I'm using the equivalent of 3 x 360 rads.

So I'm taking an educated guess in saying that Ivy being a cooler better clocking set of chips than Sandy is false to a certain degree? General chatter around is that they would clock to 5ghz+ under air with ease, I had my doubts tbh.
 
Hey Gibbo, you think the Antec khuler 620 that came free with the gigabyte mobo will be enough to handle 4.5 on the i5?

Otherwise i'll have to pull my megahalems apart again... and thats a pain in the ass tbh..

What annoys me the most though is that I could have gone SB ages ago rather than waiting for Ivy, I wanted something cooler and that was the main selling point for me. Real annoying tbh with you.

But yeah, would the 620 be capable of keeping ivy below 80c at 4.5?
 
iv got the mobo already and il need either sb or ib ship to use it.
i plan on getting ib on water.
i also want to get the gpu (7970) watercooled to because its a little warm (though not too bad) and abit too noisy
 
Flakey said:
Hey Gibbo, you think the Antec khuler 620 that came free with the gigabyte mobo will be enough to handle 4.5 on the i5?

Otherwise i'll have to pull my megahalems apart again... and thats a pain in the ass tbh..

What annoys me the most though is that I could have gone SB ages ago rather than waiting for Ivy, I wanted something cooler and that was the main selling point for me. Real annoying tbh with you.

But yeah, would the 620 be capable of keeping ivy below 80c at 4.5?
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good point, that free water cooler with the Gigabyte, almost too good to be true, I'd hate to suggest maybe its not up to the job cooling Ivy!!!
 
Waiting for more reviews ect before I make a choice. Will be getting ivy or sandy the reviews will make up my mind.

Also pricing will play a factor with bulldozer being a flopper intel can basically charge what they want atm.

Currently due to overclocking info sandy is looking like the fave to win. Unless ivy is very close price range. Sandy just seems better value for money in my eyes.
 
the_director said:
My q6600 @ 3.5 is fine for most things, although it is bottlenecking my GPUs
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Yeah for me that's the only issue with my [email protected].

However it is only noticeable with the likes of BF3 multiplayer, Crysis series (heavy gpu demanding games with significant cpu usage). While majority of games I play, it is not a problem as most of them are console ports anyway.

For me Haswell will hopefully provide an excellent performance for my 2nd build.:cool:
 
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The second you put the IB CPUs up to order I will be buying RAM, z77 mobo, GTX 680, i5 3570k and some other bits and bobs.
 
Skipping IB unless there is a warranted reason for it.

2600k is going nowhere. Might get hungry for a triple monitor SLI rig - if I do then I will likely swap to PCI-E 3.0/IB/Watercooling. I imagine that is the only reason I would ever consider IB before Haswell launches.
 
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