http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20120925182831_Intel_Discontinues_Core_i_Sandy_Bridge_Microprocessors.html

 

No immediate effect of course, but within a few months it will be quite difficult to obtain a new Sandy Bridge chip so if you're thinking about a new chip and don't want to bother with Ivy Bridge, better act fast.

Was a fantastic chip for sure.

These will go down as some of the best chips the world has ever seen....

Indeed. Sandy was a great lineup, one of the best.

As for me, I am looking forward to upgrading to the i7 3770K ivy bridge chip

 

Craig

Sandy Bridge still rocks,

 

This 2700K is amazing, easily remaining stable and relatively cool at a blazingly fast 5.4Ghz. However, it usually put-puts along at 5.0Ghz with low Vcore and 40-50C max on air when running normally with FSX. The Ivy bridge 3770K just isn't good enough to top that methinks. Perhaps the next batch may be more interesting and worth a new build.

 

Kind regards,

 

This 2700K is amazing, easily remaining stable and relatively cool at a blazingly fast 5.4Ghz.

 

What?!?!?!?!? :shok: :shok: I guess pigs fly now!! :LMAO:

 

Seriously, that is a wicked insane overclock... lol :lol:

I'm buying a spare or two. It's my opinion we will never see a better CPU for performance purposes as the shift is to efficiency and miniaturization not performance and understandably. just look at those drooling over FS Ipad and the like apps.

Rendi... That is a good idea... Payday is Friday and I may just do that for my Ivy... ^_^ Just in case I roast it... or OC too much.... Good thinking.

 

Jeff

Rendi... That is a good idea... Payday is Friday and I may just do that for my Ivy... ^_^ Just in case I roast it... or OC too much.... Good thinking.

 

Jeff

 

LOL Wait for me, not before they all get sold out. There very well could be a run on them. I'm "shopping now" as we speak. Ive never hord anything, even Y2K, But I might now.

I'm glad I just bought a 2700K. Not yet fitted but looking forward to 5Ghz+. The 2600K has a good home to go to having run at 4.7Ghz max for 21 months.

I'm buying at least one 2700k for backup, it's amazing! And i can confirm that about low temps, i have mine 2700k runing at 5GHz on air, and i get max 69c with FSX(last flight max temps per cores: 50, 63, 68, 63). I can't see Ivy reaching 5GHz on air, or any other chip... Sad news from intel...

My temps are lower @ 4.9GHz on Ivy Granted I had to go through a lot of work to get it there, but it was worth it!

 

As for 5GHz stability on air with Ivy, it can be done and I'm sure has been. I can't do it with mine because the chip is too hungry for voltage, but my particular sample of Ivy isn't very good as I need 1.5V for 4.9GHz. A chip that only needs 1.4V for 5GHz could definitely be done on air. But that's beside the point, as a 5GHz Ivy Bridge is measurably faster than a 5GHz Sandy Bridge. Ivy only needs about 4.7GHz to match a 5GHz Sandy.

Ivy only needs about 4.7GHz to match a 5GHz Sandy.

(Offtopic :lol:)

 

If Haswell could be as good of an OCer as SB, we would see some significant enough performance jumps to call for an upgrade from current SB users.

 

Haswell is expected to have 15-20% improvements per clock over IB.

IB is 10% better than SB.....therefore, Haswell could potentially be 30% faster clock for clock than SB.

 

In theory: (speculative numbers)

 

Haswell @ 4.5GHZ = SandyBridge @ 5+GHZ

Steven is this exactly what you have please?....John

 

 

 

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