Intel set to release Core i5-2550K quad-core unlocked CPU

[Hypertag]

I understand the point, but we are really close to ivy bridge.

 

[jpiniero]

Its labeled an i5 so HT would be hardware disabled by our Intel pals.

Intel doesn't differentiate between i3/i5/i7 based upon features, it's based upon marketing and really the price.

I understand the point, but we are really close to ivy bridge.

4 months is a long enough time to sell the bad gpu dies they have.

 

[janas19]

Ahh, all the CPUs that had bad GPUs, they are finally recycling. The 2550k.

So would going to the sSpec number be a more honest label? Does Intel even do those anymore, or did they also get the chop?

 

[Rvenger]

Intel doesn't differentiate between i3/i5/i7 based upon features, it's based upon marketing and really the price.
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Please, take a look at the history of Sandybridge CPUs. Trust me, its not going to get hyperthreading. If it did, it would be called the i7-2550k and would be clocked at 3.3ghz. We really can't compare Sandybridge to Nahalem because they totally killed hyperthreading on the i5 series in favor of a quad core architecture.

4 months is a long enough time to sell the bad gpu dies they have.

Well, Intel has much much better yields than AMD. I bet it took them up from January to this time to get enough inventory to actually sell these chips as the 2550k. This is their last attempt to squeeze every last drop of revenue out of SB before IB debuts.

 

[Rvenger]

So would going to the sSpec number be a more honest label? Does Intel even do those anymore, or did they also get the chop?

The 2500k sSpec number is SR008

2600k is SR00C


Prospective 2550k is SR0QH


Don't know what they mean exactly because I was never an Intel guy until this year.

 

[tweakboy]

Who needs the GPU anyway, u disable it ..... Gosh soo many CHIPs right before a new generation launch... or is Ivy not a new generation.. its P8 ? or P9 ?

thx gl

 

[NoobyDoo]

All three models have 6MB cache, but none of them have VT-d or TXT support, a feature all previous non-K SKUs have had in the Core i5 family.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-to-launch-graphics-less-sandy-bridge-cpus/14387.html

anyone guesses on the 2550k price ?

 

[ArchAngel777]

2500K no longer on microcenters website... That is odd... I guess it will be replaced by this the 2550K then?

 

[Rvenger]

I bet they are going to price it the same or more than the 2500k and bump it up 100mhz.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Sounds like they're begging for money...

 

[VirtualLarry]

2500K no longer on microcenters website... That is odd... I guess it will be replaced by this the 2550K then?

You mean this one:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0354589

Still showing for me. Perhaps it's just out of stock at your local store.

 

[Meghan54]

You mean this one:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0354589

Still showing for me. Perhaps it's just out of stock at your local store.

My local MC, in Cambridge, MA, has 10+ 2500K's in stock.....so most likely OOS at your local store, as Larry suggested.


http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0354589



And out of a random check of various MC stores, the two in GA, the two in NY, the one in MD, NJ and VA, only one store, the one in Yonkers, NY, had fewer than 10+ listed as store inventory, and that one had 7 listed.

 

[ArchAngel777]

My local MC, in Cambridge, MA, has 10+ 2500K's in stock.....so most likely OOS at your local store, as Larry suggested.


http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0354589



And out of a random check of various MC stores, the two in GA, the two in NY, the one in MD, NJ and VA, only one store, the one in Yonkers, NY, had fewer than 10+ listed as store inventory, and that one had 7 listed.

When I checked last night, the site was not turning up that search. Tried it a few times. That I checked it again thos morning and it was back on the site. So no idea.

 

[notty22]

I'm not one to complain about numbering or naming schemes. The customer/buyer still has to be responsible for what he's buying.
But the current Sandy Bridge Xeon's, here. You notice the model's ending in 0, have no graphics, the model's ending with 5, have 'built in visual's'. The 3000 gpu to be exact.
So, as I assumed in the OP, the 2550k would seem logical to be a upgrade. Well if it's not going to have internal graphics ? Will it be ? I guess if it's clocked 100mhz in some particular way it is. Even losing a feature.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Ahh, all the CPUs that had bad GPUs, they are finally recycling. The 2550k.

Heh, almost certainly this.