Ivy Bridge 22nm sticks with socket 1155... But you'll need a new motherboard

[Castiel]

The Ivy Bridge 22nm story gets even better. The new chip is socket LGA 1155 and it is socket compatible with the existing Sandy Bridge processors and Sugar Bay 2011 platform. Unfortunately we are quite sure that Cougar point PCH chipset of Sandy Bridge won’t support the new 22nm Ivy Bridge.

We are afraid that you will still need a new board. Even the Panther point PCH chipset is pin compatible with Cougar Point chipset of Sandy Bridge, but again this might help board manufactures to make boards faster, but end users will need to buy a new board.


The new platform officially supports USB 3.0 and its graphics can deal with DirectX 11. One additional news is that Maho Bay platform graphics now supports three independent displays, something that might come handy to a few, i.e. users in the financial business. Let's not forget the enhanced media performance as well as much better performance in both graphics and CPU area.

Sounds good, and the new platform comes roughly in a year's time, Q1 2012, most likely January 2012 if Intel doesn't hit any delays.

http://www.fudzilla.com/processors/item/21621-ivy-bridge-22nm-sticks-with-socket-1155

 

[ViviTheMage]

Might as well change the socket then......

 

[gevorg]

Fuuu.................. :|

 

[Castiel]

I can't wait to dish out 350 more dollars next year for another ROG board...

 

[Rifter]

this is exactly why i was waiting for 2011 to upgrade.

 

[Castiel]

this is exactly why i was waiting for 2011 to upgrade.

If i need a new board i might as well just sell my 1155 items when 2011 gets released.

 

[Axon]

If Intel wants my money, they can entice me with a friggin' chipset that gives me two 16x PCI-E lanes. Then I'll buy your new board.

 

[Castiel]

If Intel wants my money, they can entice me with a friggin' chipset that gives me two 16x PCI-E lanes. Then I'll buy your new board.

What for? It's not like any video card can even max out X8

 

[Rifter]

If Intel wants my money, they can entice me with a friggin' chipset that gives me two 16x PCI-E lanes. Then I'll buy your new board.

LGA 2011 will offer this as far as i know. At least it had better, its supposed to replace the X58 after all.

 

[WorldExclusive]

Fud

 

[aigomorla]

If Intel wants my money, they can entice me with a friggin' chipset that gives me two 16x PCI-E lanes. Then I'll buy your new board.

wait there are boards with that.. there just expensive.

 

[drizek]

This is the best of both worlds. On the one hand, Intel doesn't need to spend money developing a new socket, on the other hand you still need to buy a new one.

I have to say though, if Z68 is forwards-compatible and if Bulldozer is a disappointment, I might be tempted to pick up a 2500K.

 

[Patrick Wolf]

Fud

This. Move along people.

 

[Mugenx]

Great, I will be computerless for 11 more months. Bravo, Intel. I'm gonna flip!

 

[Hulk]

But seriously what is Ivy Bridge going to offer from Sandy that will make the upgrade worth it for most people? I mean this is just a die shrink right? SB already has turbo boost, great power savings features, and great overclocking. I don't see this being as big a jump that Penryn was from Conroe actually.

Native USB 3.0 and DX11 not really a huge selling point for me to buy a new system.

Perhaps we get a couple hundred MHz stock and on the overclock? I mean lots of people are taking SB to 4.5GHz and I'd be surprised to see IB hit 5. And top stock speeds probably still won't hit 4GHz. Intel has some wicked fear of that number it seems. Or of the heat it produces.

If I sound like a SB cheerleader I am kind of... I'm also trying to cheer up any SB owners that are bummed by this news.

 

[dpodblood]

It's a fud article so I'll believe it when IB actually comes out. Even if it's true though I don't think it's a big deal. Every upgrade I've done has required me to get a new mobo anyway.

 

[Twsmit]

At least it's not a new socket. Sandy bridge early adopters can pick up a new motherboard in a year and take their $300 i7-2600K chips with them.

This is very much in line with historical socket 478 and 775 patters. Forward socket compatibility for older chips on newer boards. Sure beats the 1156 -> 1155 transition.

The new chipset should bring USB3, more SATA3 connectors and FDI so we can finally use our SB onboard graphics.

 

[Castiel]

6Ghz on water sounds nice with IB

 

[SlitheryDee]

I'll probably be just fine skipping IB entirely. Once you get in on a new architecture the die shrink of that architecture is rarely worth an upgrade. I think the main contribution ivy bridge will make is more cores right? Bulldozer will probably at best be at parity with sandy bridge as well, so I'm happily out of the CPU market until the next major architectural update from both companies.

The only thing I can think of that would put IB on my radar is if something happens that requires me to get a new motherboard after the new socket 1155 chipsets come out. In that case I'd definitely buy one of the ones that supports IB for use with my current CPU until I was ready to upgrade.

 

[CZroe]

I remember when 0.25 μm was considered small. Now we're at 22 nm. Crazy! CPUs at the turn of the century were on processes over 11 times larger than current processes.

 

[Edrick]

ROFL.

If anyone believes what Fud actually writes......

OP, you should put FUD in the title so people can skip this.

 

[waffleironhead]

Keep the same socket, but require a new motherboard isnt exactly a new thing from intel, it sounds like the early 775 days.

 

[Mark R]

LGA 2011 will offer this as far as i know. At least it had better, its supposed to replace the X58 after all.

On LGA 1155/1156, the CPU has 16 PCI-e lanes. There is a 'DMI' connection from CPU to chipset which has capacity for approximately 8 lanes. (The chipset provides an additional 8 lanes, SATA, LAN, etc. - although, all these lanes and peripherals have to share the DMI connection, which may be a bottleneck).

ON LGA 2011, the CPU is expected to have 40 PCI-e lanes. There is a 'QPI' connection from CPU to chipset - which would permit the chipset to provide an additional 36-42 lanes.

 

[nyker96]

Oh, Intel, those marketing people just really know how to make more money off you ;]

 

[ilkhan]

I'll probably be just fine skipping IB entirely.

Every upgrade I've done has required me to get a new mobo anyway.

These two things.
My next desktop won't be until haswell ships. Ivy will be in my next laptop, but thats a replacement, not an upgrade.