i7-2600K or wait for ivy Bridge?

[OBLAMA2009]

So the show down come between Bulldozer and i7-2600k in my case

my doubt is will Bulldozer be an optimal processor for other purpose(but i again like to mention that my main purpose is x264 encoding guys) too like gaming stuff and will there be any overheat problem ,and this is the first time i will be buying a AMD processor if i am going to decide with Bulldozer.

I have a V8 cooler master for processor cooling

i posted most of my old pc spec above .

thanks guys

the bulldozer platform is sure to be really buggy when it first comes out. unless someone wants do deal with all that--i wouldnt--bulldozer wont really be something youd want to get for another 6 months

 

[Riek]

the bulldozer platform is sure to be really buggy when it first comes out. unless someone wants do deal with all that--i wouldnt--bulldozer wont really be something youd want to get for another 6 months

Elvis are you alive?

Anything to say that isn't a lie? Bulldozers platform is not new, it already exists.... You can buy such mobo's in the stores.

 

[RussianSensation]

IB won't launch until late March/April 2012 based on current information. That means it's 8-9 months away, not 6 months away. I would say if your main usage is video encoding, you may want to wait to see how Bulldozer does in September. After that, choose your platform. The 2600k is a great CPU otherwise.

For gaming, you'd be FAR better off overclocking your current CPU to 3.4-3.8ghz and ditching the 6850 for a faster videocard instead of getting a 2600k. HD7000 series should launch this year. So you really should decide which matters more to you. A full platform upgrade (new mobo + new ram + new CPU is pretty expensive without selling your old parts). Yet a $350 HD7000 series will probably be 2.5-3x faster than your 6850.

 

[psolord]

the bulldozer platform is sure to be really buggy when it first comes out. unless someone wants do deal with all that--i wouldnt--bulldozer wont really be something youd want to get for another 6 months

Do you think it will be more or less buggy than Intel's non B3 chipsets were?

Moreover, will it need a new, ala Z68 chipset, a couple months later, in order to be able to access all its features, on a single platform?

 

[apachefzs]

in my earlier post i mentioned this

and i also saw a post saying that in x264 the Bulldozer was at 136 in 1st pass and 46 in second pass when compared to i7-200k 100fps at 1st pass and 36 fps at second pass

do u guys think the bulldozer is showing that much of a performance with its 8 core when compared with the i7 2600k 4 core ?

 

[86waterpumper]

One of my problems with the motherboards with support for bd that are out now, is they are basically the same old boards and chipsets everybody had before with the 880 and 890 etc. I mean have they changed anything at all? They still don't have built in support for usb 3.0, of course to be fair the z68 boards don't have this either. You can say though that at least the z68 boards do have new features such as virtu and ssd caching. One reason I gave up and went with a sandy bridge system is that I was so tired of the buggy and crappy sata 6gb amd solution and drivers. Is this going to be improved for the bd boards any at all?

 

[PlasmaBomb]

IB won't launch until late March/April 2012 based on current information. That means it's 8-9 months away, not 6 months away. I would say if your main usage is video encoding, you may want to wait to see how Bulldozer does in September. After that, choose your platform. The 2600k is a great CPU otherwise.

For gaming, you'd be FAR better off overclocking your current CPU to 3.4-3.8ghz and ditching the 6850 for a faster videocard instead of getting a 2600k. HD7000 series should launch this year. So you really should decide which matters more to you. A full platform upgrade (new mobo + new ram + new CPU is pretty expensive without selling your old parts). Yet a $350 HD7000 series will probably be 2.5-3x faster than your 6850.

Don't forget the initial hard to get/inflated price month... (or two...)

 

[AtenRa]

One of my problems with the motherboards with support for bd that are out now, is they are basically the same old boards and chipsets everybody had before with the 880 and 890 etc. I mean have they changed anything at all? They still don't have built in support for usb 3.0, of course to be fair the z68 boards don't have this either. You can say though that at least the z68 boards do have new features such as virtu and ssd caching. One reason I gave up and went with a sandy bridge system is that I was so tired of the buggy and crappy sata 6gb amd solution and drivers. Is this going to be improved for the bd boards any at all?

AMD 990FX chipset came along with SB950 southbridge witch has an improved SATA-3 controller.

ps. 990FX has more PCI-e lanes and you could still have 2x 16 PCI-e lanes for graphics cards and USB3 full bandwidth (16 more lanes to spare), something 1156/5 platforms lacking

 

[psolord]

One of my problems with the motherboards with support for bd that are out now, is they are basically the same old boards and chipsets everybody had before with the 880 and 890 etc. I mean have they changed anything at all? They still don't have built in support for usb 3.0, of course to be fair the z68 boards don't have this either. You can say though that at least the z68 boards do have new features such as virtu and ssd caching. One reason I gave up and went with a sandy bridge system is that I was so tired of the buggy and crappy sata 6gb amd solution and drivers. Is this going to be improved for the bd boards any at all?

Smart response is a software solution really. No hardware dependence there. Intel could have implemented it in any chipset actually. They just had to justify the coming of one more chipset for the SBs besides quicksync not working when you needed to combine it with the ability to OC. Compared to a P55, you just get two Sata3 ports and that's it! Actually the same goes if you compare it with p45 as well! Anyone can get a pcie sata3 controller with insignificant money.

Virtu is a third party solution anyway and comes with a performance hit to boot. Let alone no support for multimonitor setups and no more than 1080P resolutions. I bet we will see a Virtu version on some 990GX or something.

Oh wait, I know what's new. There's one pin missing from LGA 1155, so it's not compatible with my LGA 1156. I could have swapped my 860 for a Sandy bridge and be done with it for a year or so.