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[citation][nom]Hellbound[/nom]No, these will be LGA2011.. A whole new socket[/citation]

Let's try not to make it too confusing for people ok. If you buy an i5-2500k today, yes, later on down the road there will be an upgrade path on the 1155 socket. This article, however, is about a different release that will be for the 2011 socket, and is arriving first.
 
Where are the Bulldozer fans? RIGHT HERE!!! Why spend $1000 on a processor with two less cores, same speed, (the fx will easily reach 4+GHz probably higher) And, its using two cores running together on the same process as apposed to one core for each process. The price? $ 320. nuff said. I have every respect for Intel, but I am NOT spending 1000 on a fing cpu.
 
The most interesting part with X79 is the performance of the SATA 6Gbit/s ports. I want 4x OCZ Vertex 3 Max-IOPS 240GB in a RAID0 configuration. Will the RST in X79 be able to reach >2GByte/sec with these SSDs?
 
[citation][nom]jabberwoccky[/nom]Where are the Bulldozer fans? RIGHT HERE!!! Why spend $1000 on a processor with two less cores, same speed, (the fx will easily reach 4+GHz probably higher) And, its using two cores running together on the same process as apposed to one core for each process. The price? $ 320. nuff said. I have every respect for Intel, but I am NOT spending 1000 on a fing cpu.[/citation]

The only thing you should have included is what your intended uses are. If you are talking about gaming mainly, yeah, I agree. cpu+board+gtx 580 / 6970 sounds better than a single chip.
 
[citation][nom]clonazepam[/nom]Let's try not to make it too confusing for people ok. If you buy an i5-2500k today, yes, later on down the road there will be an upgrade path on the 1155 socket. This article, however, is about a different release that will be for the 2011 socket, and is arriving first.[/citation]

I took his question as in "these" meaning to be the new cpu's in the article above.. If he is talking about the cpu in the article, then no. 2500K uses lga1155 socket, where as the ones in the article above uses lga2011.
 
[citation][nom]patcfly[/nom]Well... the reason I am considering going with the SBE chips isn't actually the processors themselves but the motherboard. LGA2011 supports ivy bridge and triple channle memory.Currently you have to go lga 1366 to get triple channel ram but then you cant get sandy bridge. Or you can go LGA775 and get core i7-2600k with dual channel ram.basically my strategy is to wait for lga 2011, get the quad core proc, lots of ram and then pull the trigger once ivy bridge drops.[/citation]
It's like a constant facepalm reading through most of these comments. Please tell me you're trolling, I might actually be relieved for once.
 
[citation][nom]captainnemojr[/nom]You can do 16x 16x on sli instead of 8x 8x seems like the only real difference, but then you lose the unlocked feature unless you want to pay $300 more.[/citation]

Quad channel DDR3 and 6 SATA 6GB ports vs dual channel DDR3 and 4 (only 2 are Intel, 2 are JMicron or Marvell) SATA 6GB. So for some its a benefit.

That and bragging rights.
 
[citation][nom]caedenv[/nom]Sooo much mis-information.SB-E is the 'tock' to the SB 'Tick', these are the extreme processors based on the SB architecture, requiring a 2011 pin mobo. The processors will support quad channel ram, extra satas, and are generally marketed to professional workstation markets and servers. If you are a gamer there will be little to no real world difference between these and the current SB chips. However, if you do any kind of design work or rendering then these chips will be a must.[/citation]
I totally agree with you, or at least this portion of your comment. Sandy Bridge-E on LGA 2011 is targeting a completely different market of enthusiasts, and professional workstation users then either Sandy Bridge on LGA1155 or Zambezi on AM3+. If you're primarily a gamer, then by all means stick with Sandy Bridge or Zambezi, because you probably won't see the true benefits of this new platform. But please don't try to deceive yourself and others into thinking there's no market or no use for higher core count and higher performance processors simply because your games can't take advantage of the additional features, you sound extremely ignorant.

And LGA2011 is NOT replacing LGA1155, nor are processors that are released for one platform compatible with the other. I don't know how many times this has been repeated, but after months on end of misinformed and misleading comments with no end in sight, I'm pretty certain this won't be the last. Is this really that difficult to understand people? Intel really doesn't have anymore then two primary platforms at any given time. LGA1155 replaced LGA1156, and LGA2011 will replace LGA1366. 2011 and 1155 are coexisting platforms, like 1366 and 1156.
 
[citation][nom]caedenv[/nom]They tend to change the extreme chip pinouts with every generation, so buying a SB-E board will ONLY work with SB-E chips, the next generation of high end chips will likely be something different. On the low end, boards tend to last several generations. LGA 775 lasted forever (P4-C2D), and LGA 1155 looks like it will last a good long while as well, but they expect you to buy a whole new computer when you buy higher end equipment.[/citation]
The situation was quite a bit different with LGA775. That one socket served the entire lineup of Intel processors, from EE to Celeron. LGA775 wasn't targeted specifically at the "low end". The model Intel currently uses with two coexisting platforms only started with LGA1366 and LGA1155.

Your comment suggesting that Intel's mainstream platforms last longer also isn't necessarily true. LGA1156 for example was around for only about a year and a half, while LGA1366 which debuted in Q4 2008 is still in use today. You're suggestion that Intel expects you to buy a whole new computer to simply perform an upgrade on their high-end platforms also isn't true. LGA1366 saw a revised lineup of new processors on at least two occasions, the first being the D0 stepping, and the second being the 32nm 6-core lineup, giving people a very viable (if not prohibitively expensive) upgrade path on the same high-end platform.
[citation][nom]caedenv[/nom]IB will be a new architecture coming out Q1-2 (mar-may) of next year. As with all Intel releases this will be a 'tick' release, meaning the low to mid-range chips (like our current i3-i7 2600K chips), which will be followed up with a 'tock' release of the extreme and professional (like the SB-E chips the article is about) chips roughly a year later.[/citation]
The 'ticks' and 'tocks' in Intel's release schedule are completely unrelated to targeting low-end, and subsequently high-end markets. They are dependent on process shrinks and the release of new architectures. Tocks are new architectures, ticks are process shrinks. Sandy Bridge is the 'tock', Ivy Bridge is the 'tick', and Sandy Bridge-E is... well neither. It's simply a follow up to Sandy Bridge on the same process and using the same underlying architecture, only targeting the high-end market.
 
[citation][nom]GeekApproved[/nom]I mean who wants to buy a Sandy Bridge-E? NOBODY.Even the old X4 955 is fast enough for any game out there. Sandy Bridge is already overkill. Intel just wants to keep bending over you fanboys every 6 months for a new platform. 1366, 1156, 1155, 2011.Go for it suckers.[/citation]
Ahh... a perfect example of what I was talking about. I'm getting pretty tired of repeating, and I'm sure you're still perfectly capable of ignoring, so I guess I'll just leave it at that.
 
[citation][nom]dragonsqrrl[/nom]I totally agree with you, or at least this portion of your comment. Sandy Bridge-E on LGA 2011 is targeting a completely different market of enthusiasts, and professional workstation users then either Sandy Bridge on LGA1155 or Zambezi on AM3+. If you're primarily a gamer, then by all means stick with Sandy Bridge or Zambezi, because you probably won't see the true benefits of this new platform. But please don't try to deceive yourself and others into thinking there's no market or no use for higher core count and higher performance processors because your games can't take advantage of the additional features, you sound extremely ignorant. And LGA2011 is NOT replacing LGA1155, nor are processors that are released for one platform compatible with the other. I don't know how many times this has been repeated, but after months on end of misinformed and misleading comments with no end in sight, I'm pretty certain this won't be the last. Is this really that difficult to understand people? Intel really doesn't have anymore then two primary platforms at any given time. LGA1155 replaced LGA1156, and LGA2011 will replace LGA1366. 2011 and 1155 are coexisting platforms, like 1366 and 1156.[/citation]

Agreed. Very well thought out comment!
 
$300 for 4 cores, $600 for 6 cores, really a 100% mark up for 2 cores.

Dam I will just have to live with my 5.1 ghz i7 2600k. Woe is me.
 
[citation][nom]stm1185[/nom]$300 for 4 cores, $600 for 6 cores, really a 100% mark up for 2 cores. Dam I will just have to live with my 5.1 ghz i7 2600k. Woe is me.[/citation]

That air? What voltage are you using? I went as high as 5ghz at 1.35v just to get into Windows, but not long enough to validate it hehehe....

Right now I have it at 1.34v at 4.6ghz and it'll take a bclk boost up to 105 for a 4826mhz clock.

It's too new and I'm too scared to go above 1.35v yet :)
 
[citation][nom]kilo_17[/nom]I fear it may already be too late for Bulldozer, with Sandy Bridge-E coming out not long after it does.[/citation]

Sandy Bridge-E is damn expensive.
 
As a guy who mainly use my PC for Video Encoding with Minor 3D rendering.. No Games.. As I have a Different PC for Games (I5-2500k / GTX 580).. This is a very viable option for my aging Dual Socket Quad Xeon platform..
But I will have to wait for Xeon equivalent of SB-E.. 6 core / 12 Threads is still not enough for me.. 16 Core Interlagos is great but without Benchmarks yet, i still couldn't decide it over current and next gen Xeon platforms..

Any News about the Xeon equivalent of SB-E??
 
Good! About time that they brought out these new Sandy Bridge-E processors. LGA 2011 maybe the way to go,but than again I should check the specifications of the Ivy Bridge & Panther Point chipsets (I think that there will be native 3.0 intel specs seen). So for you people that are AMD users,try to smile,because I think that you can't.
 
[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]Don't care. Waiting for PCI-E 3.0, LGA 2011 and Ivy Bridge!!![/citation]

I keep hearing the "wah wah waaaaaah 🙁 " in my head when I ponder what pcie 3.0 is going to do for gaming... but that's probably influenced more by the gpu side of the tech.
 
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