Intel Ivy Bridge discussion thread.

[aigomorla]

lulz.... lately...

i wouldnt expect much from intel in ivy on 1155.... u may get 1 or 2 cpu's.... but i doubt more then that...

Ivy on 2011 will bring us lots and lots of fun tho... 22nm on lga2011 is serious business guys.

 

[pantsaregood]

lulz.... lately...

i wouldnt expect much from intel in ivy on 1155.... u may get 1 or 2 cpu's.... but i doubt more then that...

Ivy on 2011 will bring us lots and lots of fun tho... 22nm on lga2011 is serious business guys.

Standard Ivy Bridge will be exclusively LGA 1155. LGA 2011 will be exclusively IB-E.

Intel intentionally segments their "enthusiast" and "mainstream" products, despite the fact that the difference between them is extremely minor.

Haswell, however, has no real chance of support on existing sockets.

 

[Kristijonas]

I plan building a fanless mATX PC when Ivy Bridge is out. It will be a low-end Ivy Bridge CPU with integrated graphics, fanless PSU (http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/psus/2010/08/01/zero-noise-seasonic-s-x-series-fanless/1), a good motherboard, ssd and/or hdd and a case. Do you think this will work? Since IB will be only 22nm, it should be pretty cold, correct? Shouldn't be a problem running it without a cooler?

 

[Tsavo]

22nm on lga2011 is serious business guys.

Serious, serious, serious business.

 

[greenhawk]

Shouldn't be a problem running it without a cooler?

heat sink will still be needed. The fan for it will depend on the size of the cooler and how much air flow is occuring from the case itself.

Might get away with out a fan, but I would think the CPU would down clock itself when doing heavy tasks.

 

[SickBeast]

Will there be a cheap Ivy Bridge CPU that is overclockable?

I'm not paying $200 for a CPU. Not now, not ever.

If I have to, I'm just going to undervolt cheap CPUs from now on.

 

[dma0991]

Will there be a cheap Ivy Bridge CPU that is overclockable?

I'm pretty sure there will be IB processors which are overclockable since they did increase the multiplier from 57x to 63x on IB platforms.

 

[edplayer]

lulz.... lately...

i wouldnt expect much from intel in ivy on 1155.... u may get 1 or 2 cpu's.... but i doubt more then that...

Ivy on 2011 will bring us lots and lots of fun tho... 22nm on lga2011 is serious business guys.

That doesn't sound correct at all.

It appears that Intel expects its consumer products to sell in high volumes. I know that 22nm is new and that its use will be phased in (not every fab will turn 22nm overnight) but if things are going well why would Intel only release "one or two" consumer products (which are traditionally the high volume products) and "lots" of "pro" products?

How are they going to keep up a 3 billion dollar a quarter profit with that strategy?

 

[Shmee]

lulz.... lately...

i wouldnt expect much from intel in ivy on 1155.... u may get 1 or 2 cpu's.... but i doubt more then that...

Ivy on 2011 will bring us lots and lots of fun tho... 22nm on lga2011 is serious business guys.

Sounds like IB-E is where its at. I can wait for that, my 980x is fine for now

 

[Edrick]

Haswell, however, has no real chance of support on existing sockets.

Why not? I can see Haswell maybe needing a new "mainstream" socket replacing LGA1155. But LGA2011 may be another story. I do not see Haswell getting more than Quad channel memory, nor do I see Haswell getting anything more than 40 lanes of PCIe 3.0, so LGA2011 should handle that. The only thing Haswell-E could get that would possibly require a new socket would be DDR4 or an intergrated south bridge (SOC). But I do not see either happening (maybe SOC for Laptops).

 

[Arachnotronic]

Really hope they stop with this weird segmentation BS for the Haswell generation...

 

[Paul98]

What I am wondering is what sort of clock speed/overclocks we will get on IB with the new gate type.

 

[greenhawk]

You'll have to wait until Q2 or Q3 2012 for Ivy Bridge-E, though.

If intel keep to their current policy of 12 months between chips, then IB-E will be a Q4 2012 or later release, not Q2/Q3.

 

[greenhawk]

Will there be a cheap Ivy Bridge CPU that is overclockable?

Given that their is no cheap "K" version of SB, I do not think intel has any interest of releasing a overclockable ("K") cheap part for Ivy-Bridge.

 

[greenhawk]

Really hope they stop with this weird segmentation BS for the Haswell generation...

Given it is done for marketing reasons (and milking enthusists), then no, intel will not stop it.

 

[Edrick]

If intel keep to their current policy of 12 months between chips, then IB-E will be a Q4 2012 or later release, not Q2/Q3.

I feel that SB-E was Q4 due to other reasons than the CPU being ready. PCIe 3.0 spec being delayed comes to mind. Chipset issues is another. I expect IB-E to be Q2/Q3 2012.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Given that their is no cheap "K" version of SB, I do not think intel has any interest of releasing a overclockable ("K") cheap part for Ivy-Bridge.

Yes there will .Using a base of 100 x32= 3200ghz. Stock than you can use a base of 125x32=4ghz bob says one is coming . I haven't seen this bios update tho.

 

[Edrick]

Given that their is no cheap "K" version of SB, I do not think intel has any interest of releasing a overclockable ("K") cheap part for Ivy-Bridge.

2500K = $179.99

That is the cheapest unlocked CPU Intel has sold in the last how many years?

 

[Arachnotronic]

I feel that SB-E was Q4 due to other reasons than the CPU being ready. PCIe 3.0 spec being delayed comes to mind. Chipset issues is another. I expect IB-E to be Q2/Q3 2012.

Doubt it, man. IB-E in Q2/Q3 2012 would make the Q4 launch of SNB-E totally and utterly pointless.

 

[Edrick]

Doubt it, man. IB-E in Q2/Q3 2012 would make the Q4 launch of SNB-E totally and utterly pointless.

Why? Since the X79 chipset will support both SB and IB, why would an update to SB-E in 6 months make it pointless?

 

[greenhawk]

why would an update to SB-E in 6 months make it pointless?

proberly the big one, intel getting their R&D money back from the designing/making of the cpu.

technically, it proberly could be that fast, but between the accountants and marketing, it will not happen that fast.

 

[greenhawk]

2500K = $179.99

That is the cheapest unlocked CPU Intel has sold in the last how many years?

Given I was replying to someone that considered $200 (or I assume there abouts) being a NO WAY answer, $180 is still in that "no way" area.

Going back before SB, you could get a $50 cpu to overclock if that is what you are implying.

 

[greenhawk]

Yes there will .Using a base of 100 x32= 3200ghz. Stock than you can use a base of 125x32=4ghz bob says one is coming . I haven't seen this bios update tho.

Only information I have seen regarding changing FSB speeds is that it is only for "K" processors. No word if it will be an option on the standard / cheaper cpus. If that is the case (ie: intel keeping it's processors aimed at markets/price points), then while those cpus will be on offer, they will not be the $100 ones.

One artical a few months back mentioned, IIRC, intel looking to limit the FSB options on non-s2011 boards to 100 and 166. Something about not wanting to interfear with sales of s2011/SB-E cpus that will have several different/selectable FSB speeds.

 

[nexusN]

Any news/rumors for 1U Ivy Bridge system?
I am using Xeon E3 now but on a temporary DH61 board;
waiting to see if there will be some good boards for replacement and if necessary the CPU.

 

[sm625]

If they're right about the improvements at 1.0V then we're going to have some nice quad core notebooks that last all day. Hopefully this iteration will mark the first celeron/pentium quad.