http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/02/intels-greatest-new-cpu-overclocked-to-7ghz/Well, I'm officially retiring my AMD machine when ivy bridge hits within the next few months.

^{Wow, even though we certainly won't run it at 7Ghz, the Ivy Bridge is no slouch. Here is part of what the article says:The flagship product, Intel Core i7-3770K is a quad-core processor with 128 KB of L1 cache (4x32 KB), 1 MB of L2 cache (4x256 KB) and 8 MB of L3 cache. The processor operates at 3.5 GHz, which is the identical clock to the succeeding product, Core i7-2700K. When you take a look at differences between Sandy and Ivy Bridge, there wasn't a lot of changes on the x86 processing side, but that wasn't the focus of Intel engineers. As leaked results show, the processor is significantly better in graphics performance than Sandy Bridge. However, as key game developers say to us - the question isn't the hardware, it's the software.When it comes to the hardware side, we were shown that the processor excels in performance. We saw the samples of Core i7-3770K going from 3.5 GHz to a massive 7.06 GHz clock. By raising voltage to 1.889 Volts, using 63x multiplier and 112.11 MHz and using dry ice - the 22nm beast passed 7000 MHz.We expect that this processor is going to raise a lot of interest if it stays within the $350 range of its predecessor.}

7.06, wow! Now I'm waiting for one of the cooler manufacturers to come out with a new "dry ice plant and cpu cooler combo". :dirol:

When it comes to the hardware side, we were shown that the processor excels in performance. We saw the samples of Core i7-3770K going from 3.5 GHz to a massive 7.06 GHz clock. By raising voltage to 1.889 Volts, using 63x multiplier and 112.11 MHz and using dry ice - the 22nm beast passed 7000 MHz.

Now I'm interested. Wasn't intending to upgrade from my 2600K but after reading this...........

At 1.889V and with dry ice. So easier 5.0GHz overclocks will be achievable for a lot of us.

OK, And who will provide the ice? Or, where will get the ice from? My fridge is broken. Dry-Ice, huh?----Factually speaking: I wonder what clock speed FSX needs to run happily? :Thinking:

^{Ivy Bridge will be made at 22nm processors and will reportedly feature not only double the transistor density of Sandy Bridge but also support for memory speeds up to 2133MHz and base clock (BCLK) overclocking. My guess is that 5.0 will be achievable on air easily.}I can't wait to see what IVY Bridge and PCI 3.0 (along with the upcoming Nvidia generation videocards) have to offer. Since FSX looks like Microsoft's last serious PC flight simulator, and I have been playing this hardware chasing game since I got into this back in 1995 with FS5.1, this next generation of hardware will probably be the last time I have to build a PC. That will be kind of sad, since I enjoy looking at hardware reviews and wondering how it will improve my flight sim experience. However, it will also be a relief since I will then be able to focus on flying. The next generation of hardware should finally be the answer we have all been waiting for (all sliders to the right, light bloom on, full 3rd part airline traffic going full blast and a super detailed and busy airport (KATL comes mind), Xtream Weather full blast - all this with at least 30FPS...Can't wait!RH

Hmm...imagine FSX with an i7 Ivy Bridge at 6.0 GHz, a next gen Nvidia GTX 680 running on PCI 3.0, and some tri-channel 2133 MHz memory.

The tragedy is that by the time we have GPUs and CPUs capable of running FSX at good FPS at major airports with traffic in bad weather, that hardware is actually capable of so much more than just horsepower, yet all we're really getting for our money is the higher framerates, with the same dated DX9 graphics and effects, and other limitations of FSX's ancient code.So unless you're playing other, newer games you ARE paying drastically too much for this hardware.

Oh man now that is just sweet!!Kind of glad now that I held off on upgrading my X58 board to Sandy Bridge, I was already planning on doing my next upgrade when Ivy Bridge was released, this news makes it even sweeter. Heck I would love to just have a chip I can overcock 5 ghz + on air! I imagine a 1 ghz + increase over my current system, would yield very nice improvements for FSX...Btw, anyone know when Windows 8 is slated for release? If it is around the same time, that would be even better as I would need to do a reinstall of the OS anwyays with the chipset change - would be nice to kill those two birds with the same stone so to speak.

While this sounds like a great advancement, I just gotta say one thing:After all these speed, even with full 7Ghz, if anyone ever does it outside of laboratory, you'll still be getting stutters and low frames with FSX!!!! :LMAO: :LMAO:

While this sounds like a great advancement, I just gotta say one thing:After all these speed, even with full 7Ghz, if anyone ever does it outside of laboratory, you'll still be getting stutters and low frames with FSX!!!! :LMAO: :LMAO:

:LMAO: :Just Kidding:

I can't wait to see what overclocks we'll get with normal cooling. I personally doubt IVB will perform even 5% better than SNB at the same clockspeed CPU wise in FSX. But I think PCIe3.0 will help a lot with stutters. Time will soon tell

After all these speed, even with full 7Ghz, if anyone ever does it outside of laboratory, you'll still be getting stutters and low frames with FSX!!!! :LMAO: :LMAO:

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At 1.889V and with dry ice. So easier 5.0GHz overclocks will be achievable for a lot of us.

I am seriously excited for this. I am not going to be an early adopter but, I would like to see the OC's on these chips.

At 22mm, a 5Ghz overclock should occur for more people more of the time when compared to Sandy Bridge. What do you guys think?RH