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Intel Ivy Bridge Chips Launching Early April 2012
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Posted 04 January 2012 - 04:29 AM
RazisMusa, on 31 December 2011 - 05:51 AM, said:
should i buy 2500k or wait for this?
Good question. I'd like to see PCWorld's answer, but in the meantime you can use the old chestnut: If you don't actually need to upgrade now, it's best to wait. (Related to the law of computing that says "Any running system is obsolete.")
Build your computer with decent, current components and it'll remain useful for a long time. In any event, the Ivy Bridge chips will likely be sold at a premium to early adopters, so I'd wait till the summer or fall anyway. The boost to performance will likely be a small one over the equivalent Sandy Bridge chips, so price might be more of a concern than sheer speed.
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Posted 04 January 2012 - 06:03 AM
I hope I can still use my LGA1155 board. I know it says its backwards compatible with existing boards and I am buying the i5-2500k next month. Times are a changing to fast for me to keep up 
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Posted 04 January 2012 - 09:25 AM
The direct support for DirectX 11, Thunderbolt, and USB 3.0 will be great, but the 37% increase in speed? Maybe it's different now, but I remember an old thumbrule that you couldn't really tell if a processor was faster, without measurement, unless it was roughly twice as fast -- a 100% increase in speed.
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 08:54 PM
RazisMusa, on 31 December 2011 - 05:51 AM, said:
should i buy 2500k or wait for this?
I would wait till Ivy Bridge comes out simply because Sandy Bridge cpus such as the 2500K (Ive been looking at this one myself) should go down in price because of it being "last generation" technology. But just because its "last generation" doesnt mean its not a kickass cpu
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 08:59 PM
Nuke61, on 04 January 2012 - 09:25 AM, said:
The direct support for DirectX 11, Thunderbolt, and USB 3.0 will be great, but the 37% increase in speed? Maybe it's different now, but I remember an old thumbrule that you couldn't really tell if a processor was faster, without measurement, unless it was roughly twice as fast -- a 100% increase in speed.
It could be that Ivy Bridge cpu's will have a shorter "Fetch-Execute Cycle" which determines how fast (how many clock cycles it takes) the cpu can communicate with the memory to process data. If 2 cpu's have the same clock speed (in ghz), the one with the shorter Fetch-Execute Cycle will ultimately be faster.
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