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Whos getting Ivy Bridge?

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Depending on the benchmarks, probably. I built my wife a sandy in the spring and I myself was holding out for BD. Since that's a flop, I may as well wait a bit longer to see what Ivy looks like. My Athlon x2 4800 is currently doing fine enough to last me a few more months.
 
I'm expecting Ivy to be over 50% faster than my i7 860 on the same or even lower power budget. I tend to upgrade my primary PC's stuff (cpus,gpus) when something 50% faster on the same price budget comes along.

So I'm guessing that come Easter, it will be getting a 3600k and two GTX 670s. That should do the trick of 50%+ more performance overall, over my 860 + GTX 570s SLI.

Now if Intel and Nvidia decide to place these products on a much higher price ballpark, I will not hesitate to cancel the whole thing. I upgrade mostly out of enthusiasm most of the time and not out of need. My 3.5yo Q9550@4Ghz, being hosted on my secondary rig, still holds its ground in most recent games anyway.
 
I will most likely be getting Ivy bridge but I will wait until its been bug tested first.After what happened at sandy bridge launch.....Even though its most likely not going to happen again, I'm not going to take any chances.
 
I'm probably going to upgrade to Ivy Bridge, just not sure how it will play out. Likely one of these options:

1. I'll get an Ivy Bridge for my existing Z68 board and sell my 2500K.

2. I'll get an Ivy Bridge for my existing Z68 board and a cheaper board to use my old 2500K in my server.

3. I'll get an Ivy Bridge but upgrade to a Z77 board and move my existing 2500K+Z68 into my server

4. I'll just keep my 2500K+Z68.

It all depends on my funds at the time, how much of a performance increase Ivy Bridge represents over Sandy Bridge, and if Ivy Bridge overclocks better on newer (Z77, etc) chipsets compared to my existing Z68 (Similar how Core2Quads overclocked better with P45 compared to P35).
 
I will probably palm off my p8z68 mobo and 2500k to my GF and build her a gaming rig. That will allow me to pick up a IB I5 and a PCIE 3.0 mobo with the minimum of fuss for my rig. Although i will probably give it a couple of months from launch to make sure there are no issues.
 
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Not sure yet. It depends on whether a bottleneck arises with my next video card upgrade. If not, I'll stick with my i7 920 until Haswell, provided my mobo doesn't crap out on me or something.
 
Haven't any one of you learned anything from Pentium 4 or Bulldozer? Wait until the product actually ships and can be benchmarked before buying.
 
Hmm, more speed, and lower power consumption. Do I want it? Maybe. 😛

I'm thinking, as long as I'm still not into gaming, then there is really little reason to upgrade. Maybe if I get more into DC, but I don't do that in the warm months.
 
imaheadcase said:
SB-E for me. That will let me upgrade to IB-E when it comes out if i desire.
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Same here.

I may just buy my first laptop when IB comes out as well, if there is a solid quad-core with very good power consumption. Otherwise, Haswell for mobile. 🙂
 
My line is 40%.

Ivy@MaxOC must beat my 2600K@5GHz by an average of 40% or more in order for me to upgrade.

It also has to be reasonably priced ($300 or less)
 
I'm currently running my Xeon W3520 at 4.2ghz with hardly any voltage adjustments for the last year.
I might build a system around the 2700k.
 
Acanthus said:
My line is 40%.

Ivy@MaxOC must beat my 2600K@5GHz by an average of 40% or more in order for me to upgrade.

It also has to be reasonably priced ($300 or less)
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6-core at 5ghz will be about 40% more performance, but will not be $300.
 
Well my original plan was to move to X79 mid next year and go for a 6 core SB-E chip and maintain my current GPU's.

Since X79 got butched for features i have now re-evaluated my situation and decided im going to wait for the IB-E chipset to come out that fully supports all the new features that X79 had promised. So i will be upgrading to IB-E not next year but probably mid 2013.

I will purchase a top end 28nm GPU next year instead to tie me over to IB-E and keep the upgrade itch under control.
 
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