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Intel's naming system was trivialized as soon as SB-E hit.

Nehalem/Westmere made up first generation "Core" products.

Sandy Bridge made up the second generation.

Ivy Bridge and SB-E (which is, architecturally, just an LGA 2011 implementation of SB) are third generation.

Haswell and IB-E are fourth generation. It makes no sense.

it would have made sense to label the SB-E units "i7-2800", "i7-2900K", and "i7-2920X" or something similar. Ivy Bridge refreshes (IB is a die shrink, remember?) could have been labeled "i5-2550K", "i7-2650K", and "i7-2750K."

Instead, Intel has given us the arbitrary "it's a new generation when we say it is" nonsense.

The most likely reason for the increment from 2xxx to 3xxx was because the mobile SKUs were so crazily better going from 2xxx to 3xxx.
Desktop got taken along for the ride because it would be chaos otherwise.

After that, SB-E being same scheme as IVB was to save them the embaressment of the truth of their strategy pertaining to the use of old architectures/process nodes for their enthusiast chips/platforms.

 

[Fx1]

Anyone explain where are the ES sample overclocks like used to happen back in the day?

 

[CFP]

I think that's been non-existent for a while. Shit, even going back to Nehalem the ES overclocks were crappy compared to D0.

 

[Fx1]

I think that's been non-existent for a while. Shit, even going back to Nehalem the ES overclocks were crappy compared to D0.

There are none now though. Used to be that people had ES samples with Overclocks months before release

 

[CFP]

Those old ES samples were generally cherry picked for promotion, IIRC? Since Nehalem Intel has been so far ahead in the CPU race that it has hardly been necessary?

Of course, I'm probably talking out of my arse, but I can't remember there being trend for ES chips since Nehalem on Intel's side to overclock to crazy numbers, unlike what we used to get before that, especially with the core 2 duo generation. IIRC, some ES Allendales hit crazy speeds on 2 cores, not to mention the ES E6600's which were hitting clocks no retail chip could match.

 

[ShintaiDK]

There are none now though. Used to be that people had ES samples with Overclocks months before release

Because the ring of people selling illegal ES samples got busted and jailed.