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Who here is getting a Sandybridge-E Cpu?

lay-z-boy said:
If you need it now, get the 2600k. You won't be disappointed. If you have the cash on hand + time to wait till its November release then SB-E hexas could be well worth it if absolute speed is of the essence. Ivy's are obviously an option if changing your system isn't in the cards till Q1-2 of next year.
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Thanks again lay-z-boy,

I'm going to wait until Feb/Mar of next year before I make the move.
I'll push on with my Q9550 for now.

Until then I'll keep an eye on things and keep asking a few more Q's :)

Thanks again.
 
I'm thinking would be a large upgrade from my current setup:
[email protected],8Gb DDR2,Asus P5Q Pro

But then again so would a 2500k setup.

I've already picked up a coupla 8GB sets of DDR3 RAM ready for upgrade.
Just need to see price/performance really, I try not to go high end but
mid-range and OC a little
 
I assume they'll just be sold as a quad channel pack, which will just consist of 4 modules in different packaging.

As for OC'ing, 1600MHZ probably won't affect the overclock, But I'm ultimately not sure.
 
Saundie said:
That does make sense. If only gurusan had bothered to elaborate on their point.
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Yes, my point was that there is really no reason to buy this chip for gaming for other than e-peen. Any performance benefits in gaming will be negligible at best.

An analogy would be someone buying a 990X for gaming. Simply retarded IMO when a 2500K or 2600k would do better and cost less.

If you want more cores then go for bulldozer :p
 
gurusan said:
Yes, my point was that there is really no reason to buy this chip for gaming for other than e-peen. Any performance benefits in gaming will be negligible at best.

An analogy would be someone buying a 990X for gaming. Simply retarded IMO when a 2500K or 2600k would do better and cost less.

If you want more cores then go for bulldozer :p
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Except a Sandybridge E will likely be faster in games than a 2500/2600k and these cpu's can overclock too.

Obviously the 2500/2600 is the option that makes most financial sense but if you want the best, sandye is the way to go.
 
gurusan said:
Yes, my point was that there is really no reason to buy this chip for gaming for other than e-peen. Any performance benefits in gaming will be negligible at best.

An analogy would be someone buying a 990X for gaming. Simply retarded IMO when a 2500K or 2600k would do better and cost less.
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Now that your point has been given a chance to live and become fully realised, I can entirely understand it. I would agree that in the short term at least, it's not going to grant huge advantages over existing Sandy Bridge processors. Similar statements were made about the QX6700 when it was released at the end of 2006, though they were more along the lines of "no game uses even dual cores so quad cores is an utter waste of money, buy an E8400 instead". In the longer term, however, the QX6700 turned out to be the better buy, as those on E8400 systems would end up moving to a Core i5/i7 setup as games that utilise four cores arrived.

Anyway, I've already conceded that at least part of the reason I want SB-E is bragging rights :P
 
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Dave2150 said:
Except a Sandybridge E will likely be faster in games than a 2500/2600k and these cpu's can overclock too.

Obviously the 2500/2600 is the option that makes most financial sense but if you want the best, sandye is the way to go.
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Only chance of seeing Sandybridge E doing anything more than a 2500k/2600k is if you have a tri-sli setup.
 
Dave2150 said:
Except a Sandybridge E will likely be faster in games than a 2500/2600k and these cpu's can overclock too.

Obviously the 2500/2600 is the option that makes most financial sense but if you want the best, sandye is the way to go.
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But in the tomhardware's preview they perform exactly the same per clock... only advantage SB-E have is more cores, so for gaming unless the game is heavily multithreaded there will be no difference.
 
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