2700k or Wait for IB?

[Annon2255]

I found a guy selling a brand new 2700k, never taken out of the box, for $280 and I'm trying to decide if I should go ahead and bite or wait for IB to come out in 2012.

Is this a good enough deal that I should do it or should I just wait? Will IBs likely be in the same price range as this?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I found a guy selling a brand new 2700k, never taken out of the box, for $280 and I'm trying to decide if I should go ahead and bite or wait for IB to come out in 2012.

Is this a good enough deal that I should do it or should I just wait? Will IBs likely be in the same price range as this?

For only consulting the Egg, that's about a $90 saving. And if there is no tax or shipping in the transaction, your saving will be more.

Last I heard, IB's will only have an 8% edge over SB cores for the scalability or over-clocking potential. Someone here should have some advance info -- I saw it posted recently -- about the chip releases Intel plans for the IB models. Already, we've seen SBE CPUs and X79 motherboards in socket-2011. There will also be IB units configured for socket-1155.

That's the most I can say on the matter, because -- with those situations and parameters, it's your choice. I'd say it's a close call. But I'd also say you're getting a good deal on the 2700K based on the prices I see.

 

[Hulk]

Depends on what you're upgrading from I think. If it's a big jump I'd go for it.

 

[Annon2255]

I have an E8400, 8 gb ram, 4870.

I figure this will be a nice upgrade and once the 7xxx series comes out that will round out my system.

 

[Arachnotronic]

2700K. Resale value will still be high should you decide to go ivy. Even Q6600s go for $90 nowadays....

 

[Annon2255]

Is the 2700k worth 100 dollars more than a 2500k? I just game, so I don't think I'd benefit a lot from the 2700k.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Is the i7 2700 also in a non k flavor?

Depending on performance and price of Ivy i may replace my i3 2100 later on with one to match up a 7000 series card.

 

[Annon2255]

I don't believe there is a 2700 non-k. If there is I can't find one anywhere.

 

[poohbear]

Is the 2700k worth 100 dollars more than a 2500k? I just game, so I don't think I'd benefit a lot from the 2700k.

nope. look at some bencmarks, no difference at all especially when both are overclocked. for gaming that $100 difference is much better spent on a video card.

 

[General Kenobi]

Is the 2700k worth 100 dollars more than a 2500k? I just game, so I don't think I'd benefit a lot from the 2700k.

Multiple reports on this say no difference in gaming, e.g. Skyrim will not benefit much from a 2700K. The Core i5 2500K is the best price/performance ratio CPU for gaming right now.

 

[jhu]

Buy the 2700k, sell it, then wait for IB.

 

[Dadofamunky]

Tough decision. I guess, given my experiences recently, I'd still wait. Right about this time a year ago, I decided to pull the trigger on a new Nehalem build. I got as far as buying an i7-950 and a few other parts before I realized Sandy Bridge was coming out in a few weeks, and it was very anticipated. Several people advised me to go for the new 32nm proc and I listened and returned the other part. Darn glad I did. SB rocks. Ivy is Sandy Bridge on a new smaller node and I think it's an even better bet. I expect to see 5GHz OCs fairly routinely. Just my 2 kopeks.

 

[LoneNinja]

I'd jump on that deal, but than again if all your doing is gaming than a 2500K will perform the same in 95%+ of games. Battlefield 3 online is the only game I know of that can use the extra threads and actually improve performance.

 

[TahoeDust]

I jumped on a deal for $290 last week. I was itching to build a new rig and felt like it was just too good of a deal to pass up. The 2500k may be all you need, but a 2700k for $60 more is tough to overlook.

 

[lothar]

Buy the 2700k, sell it, then wait for IB.

This.

Sent from my GT-I9100

 

[tweakboy]

Wait it out, wait for a nice 6 core Ivy Bridge with X79 mobo. The hexacore is coming I think at the end of 2012 tho. Initially IB will be quad cores with HT,,,gl

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Wait it out, wait for a nice 6 core Ivy Bridge with X79 mobo. The hexacore is coming I think at the end of 2012 tho. Initially IB will be quad cores with HT,,,gl

Yeah if he doesnt mind spending $1500 in just the CPU and motherboard.

 

[tweakboy]

Now is not a good time to upgrade,, if you were going to do it do it in the summer or in the beginning of the new year.... Soo wait it out for IB .. your dual core is fast enough when OCed until you get a brand new Ivy Bridge Chip and Mobo and PSU and VC and RAM......

wait it out, or youll feel really bad when the Ivy is out,,,,and your sitting with Sandy,

 

[tweakboy]

Oh and did I mention the EVGA mobo coming in 2012 for Ivy has a dual socket flavor board. I dont know how much it will cost, but it has 2 CPU slots for dual CPU, can you imagine dual Ivy's on this, OCed both to 5Ghz ,, hexacore ,,12 core , 24 threads,,, oh and it has a lot of ram slots for confings up to 256GB and beyond.... Will ASUS also come with a dual socket desktop board hmmm ? ,, gl

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Now is not a good time to upgrade,, if you were going to do it do it in the summer or in the beginning of the new year.... Soo wait it out for IB .. your dual core is fast enough when OCed until you get a brand new Ivy Bridge Chip and Mobo and PSU and VC and RAM......

wait it out, or youll feel really bad when the Ivy is out,,,,and your sitting with Sandy,

I agree on waiting but disagree on what he should do once ivy comes out. I say wait till ivy comes out then pick up a sandy bridge on the cheap.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Good question is will Ivy outperform x79?

x79 does offer hexacore support i guess ivy won't is that why people went for the x79 with ivy almost here?

 

[greenhawk]

i guess ivy won't is that why people went for the x79 with ivy almost here?

x79 also has quad channel memory, allowing faster speeds and double the max memory.

It also added a lot of extra PCI-E lanes for faster connection to addon cards (or connecting to lots of cards).

 

[greenhawk]

did I mention the EVGA mobo coming in 2012 for Ivy has a dual socket flavor board

got a link? all I can find is dual s2011 and that would be taking Xeons at a guess and not the standard cpus.

so dual IB-E/SB-E.

 

[frozentundra123456]

This is not meant to be sarcastic but a legitimate question: why would one wait for Ivy? What real improvement does it bring?

I am sort of disappointed in that line up. Dont really see any advancement except for a better IGP, and I am sure most users here will use a dedicated GPU anyway. Even the power savings are quite small for a desktop. It could be a better step up for mobile though if they can get IGP performance close to current Llano and have a better CPU.

 

[dma0991]

why would one wait for Ivy? What real improvement does it bring?

I'm too late for SB and BD is a dud. For a person that doesn't game much like me, the IGP improvement is good from my POV and most probably I won't be getting a discrete GPU or at least till the bugs are ironed out from the new gen cards.