Monday, August 8th 2011
Sandy Bridge-E 2011 Launch Put on Slide, Ivy Bridge in March-April 2012
Last month, there reports of Intel pushing its Sandy Bridge-E enthusiast desktop platform to 2011. It was originally scheduled for 2011, but was reportedly delayed to 2012 because of issues Intel was facing with its flagship desktop chipset, codenamed Patsburg-D. Intel will be launching Sandy Bridge-E this year, but the first wave of motherboards will feature Patsburg-A/B chipsets, which have fewer SATA 6 Gb/s ports than Patsburg-D.
Intel put its launch plans on paper with its latest desktop platform roadmap, that shows the first three models of socket LGA2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors, the six-core Core i7-3960X, Core i7-3930K, and the quad-core Core i7-3820, featuring in the Q4 2011 column. The roadmap shows that the three processors will hold their market-positions till Q2-2012, when Intel will release faster models to displace them. The roadmap slide also shows that Ivy Bridge, Intel's next-generation socket LGA1155 processors that are built on the 22 nm fab process, will be released in March or April 2012, and not early 2012 as speculated earlier.
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DonanimHaber
Intel put its launch plans on paper with its latest desktop platform roadmap, that shows the first three models of socket LGA2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors, the six-core Core i7-3960X, Core i7-3930K, and the quad-core Core i7-3820, featuring in the Q4 2011 column. The roadmap shows that the three processors will hold their market-positions till Q2-2012, when Intel will release faster models to displace them. The roadmap slide also shows that Ivy Bridge, Intel's next-generation socket LGA1155 processors that are built on the 22 nm fab process, will be released in March or April 2012, and not early 2012 as speculated earlier.
20 Comments on Sandy Bridge-E 2011 Launch Put on Slide, Ivy Bridge in March-April 2012
on topic, havn't noticed before, but the >= signs on the 2600k might suggest Intel will release another 1155 SB with higher clocks before IB
I appreciate all the extra power new CPUs bring us but realistically I rarely even push my old C2D duo to the max so I want reasonable power usage under load, not the absurdly high voltage and frequency so I honestly don't care about ultimate performance enthusiast models.
I'll rejoice when they finally make a chip that is at least comparable with early C2D duo/quads in terms of computing power that can operate with passive cooler only, no case fans whatsoever. That, and silent GPU roughly on par with HD5770, would be my dream setup.
Ivy Bridge will bring faster models while trying to stay in the same TDP. I'm hoping something in the 65w range can be as powerful as my E8400. If I can find that, then it will be my new CPU for sure.
I don't know how the i3 2100T performs compared to the E8400, but by the look of it, it is mainly used in HTPC systems. Everyone has different needs, for me, it's gaming period. I do not warrant an i3-2100T being an upgrade worthy investment because I would have to get a MB and RAM to go along with it which ups the cost and right now I have no need to have such a system. When prices get lowered even further when BD comes out, then I might consider doing an upgrade along those lines.
Also, the chart shows Ivy Bridge between Q1 and Q2 2012, with "March-April" between parenthesis. Don't know if I misterpreted the chart, though.
Though, if BD is decent enough, will be a good holdover til Patsburg-D/T/X is ready.
Bring in the big gun cpu's, not the pea shooters.
Let ARM deal with the pea shooter, they are good with that.
not that my current cpu isn't performing. It's just that I feel i have a graphics solution that will last me quite some time and I want a platform that will do the same.