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Ivy Bridge will launch on March 23, but will be available on April 29?

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Rvenger said:
Lets just put it this way. I got rid of my Asus P8Z68V/Gen 3 for this board. For some reason the 2500k runs cooler, VRMs are practically silent, and I can get a lower voltage overclock out of this board. I am debating whether to get a 2700k or a 3570k. I am kind of put off by the temps that these Ivybridge previews are getting. I guess it will depend if PCI-e 3.0 will be worth it or not.
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Thanks for your resonse...

Interesting from my research - people were recommending or pushing the Asus P8Z68V/Gen 3...

You help made up my mind - I'll get the ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 this week... thanks!

I read the review on the heat on the Ivy Bridge = not good... I'm debating if the PCI-e 3.0 will be worth it, too... How is the performance on the GTX 680 so far with the PCI-e 2.0? Is the PCI-e 2.0 bottle necking it?

Worst case scenario I'll sell the i5-2550k to my brother and pick up the Ivybridge 3770k when it comes out at the end of April...

I'm thinking maybe the reason why for the March 23 and April 29 thing is to give intel time to fix any issues that reviewers find?
 
Idontcare said:
I find this to be rather odd. That is a 5 week gap. That is huge in economic terms, more than 1/3 of a business quarter.

Why would Intel shoot its own Sandy Bridge sales in the foot, for 5 whole weeks no less, by releasing detailed performance analyses of its yet-to-be-available processor into the wild only to assuredly result in suppressing and depressing Sandy Bridge sales in the intervening 5 weeks?

Paper launches are a marketing ploy done out of desperation to attempt to stall purchasing decisions that would have benefited your competitor. That isn't the case here.

So why would Intel voluntarily do this? I'm at a loss.
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Supply issues?
 
Destiny said:
Thanks for your resonse...

Interesting from my research - people were recommending or pushing the Asus P8Z68V/Gen 3...

You help made up my mind - I'll get the ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 this week... thanks!

I read the review on the heat on the Ivy Bridge = not good... I'm debating if the PCI-e 3.0 will be worth it, too... How is the performance on the GTX 680 so far with the PCI-e 2.0? Is the PCI-e 2.0 bottle necking it?

Worst case scenario I'll sell the i5-2550k to my brother and pick up the Ivybridge 3770k when it comes out at the end of April...

I'm thinking maybe the reason why for the March 23 and April 29 thing is to give intel time to fix any issues that reviewers find?
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Im not sure about bottlenicking, but do NOT get the 2550K, you will be paying extra for a defective product.
 
PCIe 3.0 is a boost IF you do GPGPU computing it will give you more performance right now, but gaming none unless you are doing SLI or XFire with 3 or 4 card IIRC....
 
Destiny said:
Thanks for your resonse...

Interesting from my research - people were recommending or pushing the Asus P8Z68V/Gen 3...

You help made up my mind - I'll get the ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 this week... thanks!

I read the review on the heat on the Ivy Bridge = not good... I'm debating if the PCI-e 3.0 will be worth it, too... How is the performance on the GTX 680 so far with the PCI-e 2.0? Is the PCI-e 2.0 bottle necking it?

Worst case scenario I'll sell the i5-2550k to my brother and pick up the Ivybridge 3770k when it comes out at the end of April...

I'm thinking maybe the reason why for the March 23 and April 29 thing is to give intel time to fix any issues that reviewers find?
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My GTX 680 should be here on Monday or Tuesday. I hear the difference between PCIe 2.0 and 3.0 is 5% but we will be seeing the actual numbers here soon. If the performance is redeemable by a small overclock on the GPU and IVB still has heat issues, I will be getting a 2700k instead.
 
Destiny said:
I'm thinking maybe the reason why for the March 23 and April 29 thing is to give intel time to fix any issues that reviewers find?
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5 weeks is not long enough to make anything more than superficial changes to a CPU.

Probably takes close to that long for one wafer to go from start to finish, let alone re-design, process and validate changes... then mass produce & validate thousands more wafers, then slice them up, package and distribute them for a worldwide launch? nah-gunnah happen.
 
jpiniero said:
The thread's premise is wrong because March 23rd passed and no launch.
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Launch meant "when the embargo ends and the media is allowed to talk about the Ivy Bridge processors". As the thread title says the CPUs will not be available to buy until April 29 April.

Regarding previous availability dates for IB that have been missed, I think the reason is that Intel has pushed forward the release of IB several times.
 
Those dates are wrong, the platform launch "rumour" is April 9 (e.g. talk about Z77/75 etc. chipsets and possibly CPUs on that date, motherboards become available to purchase) and the CPU launch itself (retail availability) on April 30.
 
IlllI said:
might take a look at this http://www.behardware.com/articles/850-1/pci-express-3-0-impact-on-performance.html
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I don't get it how did he do cf with one card ?

""3.0 compatible platform for now, Intel’s LGA 2011, and one PCI-E 3.0 graphics card, the Radeon 7970""

-also the low cpu to gpu test could be why intel list the x79 cpu's as pci-e 2.0 maybe.
-intel list ivyb as 3.0

-but your right for today's cards

-will wait for the dual 680's\7970 on z77\ivyb 2.0 vs 3.0 benches
still maybe not needed ,even then. but would like to see if the min. fps increase.
 
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