Sandy Bridge-E and x79 Release Date?

[RichUK]

Any news?

I've been holding off on a new build for a while now and given the choice I would prefer to upgrade to Sandy Bridge-E and x79, rather than the current offerings.

 

[john3850]

Will the SB-E only be a short term chipset to get intel ready for the Haswell.

 

[Arachnotronic]

SNB-E & X79 will be here by mid November.

 

[Edrick]

Nov 15th is what I am hearing.

 

[Edrick]

Will the SB-E only be a short term chipset to get intel ready for the Haswell.

Doubt it. There is nothing Haswell will include (that I know of now) that will require a new socket. But that is just a guess. Then again, Intel is Intel and we know how they love to change sockets recently.

 

[Ajay]

Will the SB-E only be a short term chipset to get intel ready for the Haswell.

Well, supposedly there will be an IB-E in between that will still use LGA2011. It sound like Intel is planning on a revision of x79 in 1H12 to make it a better enthusiast platform as well (don't know what that means yet). I'd tend to think that IB-E could actually be and 8 core CPU, since that's what Intel was planning for SB-E, but had to back off to reduce TDP and improve overclocking.

 

[imaheadcase]

So far Sb-E motherboards are going to be crazy expensive. Asrock who normally gets out cheaper priced boards is having its low end for $250. yikes. Its high end one was almost $400.

 

[john3850]

The sb-e will be just be a steping stone to Haswell and the Haswell should be the best yet correct ?.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Intel's stuff is segmented into two lines:

Mainstream - gets the newest cores, straddled with iGPUs and such. Low core count.

High end - comes in about a year after intro of mainstream core, no iGPU, higher core count.

So we will have:

SNB-E -> IVB-E -> HSW-E
IVB-> HSW -> RKW

 

[lOl_lol_lOl]

Well, supposedly there will be an IB-E in between that will still use LGA2011. It sound like Intel is planning on a revision of x79 in 1H12 to make it a better enthusiast platform as well (don't know what that means yet). I'd tend to think that IB-E could actually be and 8 core CPU, since that's what Intel was planning for SB-E, but had to back off to reduce TDP and improve overclocking.

Judging from the recent IDF, AMDS failure to to take on SB and SB's performance, IVB-E will be the last time Intel caters this much to enthusiasts. Haswell seems to be oriented towards efficiency and that's it. Why put out more competitors to your own winning product?

2500K is more than enough till 2013-14. I am still jealous of the ppl who bought the Q6600.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Well, supposedly there will be an IB-E in between that will still use LGA2011. It sound like Intel is planning on a revision of x79 in 1H12 to make it a better enthusiast platform as well (don't know what that means yet). I'd tend to think that IB-E could actually be and 8 core CPU, since that's what Intel was planning for SB-E, but had to back off to reduce TDP and improve overclocking.

X79 was nerfed quite a bit from what Intel originally touted it would be (think 10 x SATA6 ports to just 2) so its always possible they just go back to that original spec as well as add some other features like official USB3.0 support (which is one of the few changes they're making with the move to Z75/77 from P67/Z68)

 

[LondonBurning]

what to buy, what to buy....

 

[Arachnotronic]

Judging from the recent IDF, AMDS failure to to take on SB and SB's performance, IVB-E will be the last time Intel caters this much to enthusiasts. Haswell seems to be oriented towards efficiency and that's it. Why put out more competitors to your own winning product?

Have you ever heard of the Intel Xeon?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

x79 does not support usb 3.0 natively and that irks me.

 

[imaheadcase]

Why would it irk you, lots of mobo add a 2nd chip anyways for more usb ports

 

[tatertot]

Judging from the recent IDF, AMDS failure to to take on SB and SB's performance, IVB-E will be the last time Intel caters this much to enthusiasts. Haswell seems to be oriented towards efficiency and that's it.

Yeah, I'm sure Intel spent billions developing Haswell without any thought to absolute performance.

 

[kami]

I would have liked to build my new system before Skyrim (not like it needs more than what I have now, but still ). I guess I'll wait a couple weeks after release to see what people are saying about different mobo's.

BTW I agree its dumb no native USB3 support, but since only storage devices take advantage right now I am OK with 2-4 ports.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

x79 does not support usb 3.0 natively and that irks me.

A chip this advanced really should.

 

[red454]

I suppose there is not much longer to wait.

The more I look at a 2600K and a Z68 board with 8G of ram, it will be hard to top that for the performance / cost. Still, I want hold out to see some benchmarks.

And I wonder how "future proof" the 2011 board / x79 will really be, given the extra expense...

 

[exar333]

A chip this advanced really should.

Most MB makers will release this with USB 3.0 anyway. Maybe adds $5-10 to the board price, but at >$250 anyway, who cares?