ANy mobo that will support ivybridge out now that will get a bios update?

[imaheadcase]

I know "should" get a bios update is pretty vague, but anyone know of a motherboard announced now that they promises a bios update to support it?

I want to do a minor upgrade now, then a better one when IB is released.

I currently have a
Asus P5q-e mobo paired with a Core 2 quad Q9550

I figure i can sell that plus 8gigs of ram to someone and get the 2500k with right motherboard. So if i find ivy bridge is not worth the upgrade i'm still set good.

I'm sure someone is in the same boat as me..😛

 

[Capt Caveman]

Gigabyte

 

[lehtv]

IB is intended to be 20% faster than SB. Pretty sure that won't be worth the upgrade. Except, of course, you can sell the 2500K at a decent price, but still... 2500K@4.5 is easily fast enough to last until Haswell in 2013.

 

[Mem]

IB is intended to be 20% faster than SB. Pretty sure that won't be worth the upgrade. Except, of course, you can sell the 2500K at a decent price, but still... 2500K@4.5 is easily fast enough to last until Haswell in 2013.

You only see main difference with onboard IGP on Ivy Bridge,Anandtech stated this

Clock for clock performance will go up by a small amount over Sandy Bridge (4 - 6%), combine that with slightly higher clock speeds and we may see CPU performance gains of around 10% at the same price point with Ivy Bridge. The bigger news will be around power consumption and graphics performance.

So don't expect too much like 20% like you have stated unless you mean IGP which'll probably be a lot more then 20%.

 

[Mem]

I know "should" get a bios update is pretty vague, but anyone know of a motherboard announced now that they promises a bios update to support it?

I want to do a minor upgrade now, then a better one when IB is released.

I currently have a
Asus P5q-e mobo paired with a Core 2 quad Q9550

I figure i can sell that plus 8gigs of ram to someone and get the 2500k with right motherboard. So if i find ivy bridge is not worth the upgrade i'm still set good.

I'm sure someone is in the same boat as me..😛

Motherboards like MSI Z68 GD80/GD65 G3 version should be Ivy bridge and PCI-E 3.0 compatible,as well as Asrock Z68 GEN3 range so have a look at those.
Anandtech did post this statement,

Ivy Bridge is backwards compatible with existing LGA-1155 motherboards, although there will be a new chipset for Ivy Bridge and new motherboards to enable some features (e.g. PCI Express 3.0, native USB 3.0). The new chipset family falls under the 7-series banner. We'll see Z77, Z75, H77, Q77, Q75 and B75 available at or around launch.

 

[jiffylube1024]

I'd say just about any mid to high end ASUS/Gigabyte/etc. socket 1155 motherboard should support Ivy Bridge with a BIOS update. I've always had great results with ASUS updatings its BIOSes to be compatible with future CPUs.

 

[imaheadcase]

Thanks all, i was thinking asus but have not kept up with motherboard scene long enough to know which is still good.

 

[lehtv]

You only see main difference with onboard IGP on Ivy Bridge,Anandtech stated this

So don't expect too much like 20% like you have stated unless you mean IGP which'll probably be a lot more then 20%.

My expectation was based on Intel's performance targets outlined in wikipedia.

• 20% increase in CPU performance.
• Up to 60% increase in integrated graphics performance.

I would be very surprised if these targets weren't met. The 22nm technique can just fit so much more on the same die size than 32nm.

 

[Mem]

My expectation was based on Intel's performance targets outlined in wikipedia.

I would be very surprised if these targets weren't met. The 22nm technique can just fit so much more on the same die size than 32nm.

From what I've read a lot of that die size will be used for IGP hence the huge expectations for graphic performance,however cpu wise seems to be not as much.

End of the day we have to wait until we see official benchmarks but I don't expect too much CPU wise.

About the GPU on Ivy Bridge,

With Ivy Bridge the GPU remains on die but it grows more than the CPU does this generation. Intel isn't disclosing the die split but there are more execution units this round (16 up from 12 in SNB) so it would appear as if the GPU occupies a greater percentage of the die than it did last generation. It's not near a 50/50 split yet, but it's continued indication that Intel is taking GPU performance seriously

Btw here is Anandtech's Ivy Bridge article http://www.anandtech.com/show/4830/intels-ivy-bridge-architecture-exposed .

 

[greenhawk]

while the Z68 I think are ment to have the best chance of taking a Ivy Bridge chip, from my reading it would appear it will not take them fully.

Besides the faster pci-e lanes (which depends on some motherboard features), the other change is that their is ment to be some FSB overclocking taking place as well in the K series. Just how much is to be seen, but it looks like it will not just be the default 100Mhz we have now on SandyBridge.

if not overclocking, then proberly not a issue.

As to wanting to upgrade to Ivy Bridge from Sandy Bridge, not going to be worth it as it appears the Ivy bridge's improvements from going to 22nm (and 3D transisters) will have most of the advantage going into a lower TDP instead of more performance.