[citation][nom]Core_i_pocalypse[/nom]" http://www.custompcreview.com/2012 [...] d-tdp-95w/ "Ouch... All of that time and money invested into being the first to 22nm, and they gained literally nothing, and in fact may have even regressed?Intel apparently has too much pride to delay their 22nm long enough to get it right. It could be another 6 to 12 months or longer before they get it together, I guess their going to start selling you nanometers much like they sold Ghz in the Pentium4 era.What's worse is that if Trinity and Piledriver do well, then GloFo's 32nm process may perform just as well or better than Intel's 22nm, which could mean another coupe just like Athlon64. Except of course, it will be even worse, because AMD also has a massive integrated graphics lead now.[/citation]
Everybody is getting hot and bothered about the IB OC temps. At stock it does not get hot. The performance reviews that have been out already suggest that IB is ~5-10% better per clock and per watt than SB was, with a much better GPU. Believe it or not that is progress. Will it break any OC records? Not likely. But it is a clearly better CPU... just weak on the OC side of things.
Besides, the IB chips coming out a few months from now will no dobut be better than the ones produced at first. I is merely a matter of figuring out their process and ironing out the rest of the kinks. By the time Haswell comes out (lol if it comes out as I understand this is the 4th Intel product with that name and the other 3 turned into vaporware) they will have 22 down pat, and combined with a new architecture we will see the performance we were looking for.