Intel Speeding Up Sandy Bridge Launch

[TheLaughingMan]

What was the difference between AM2 and AM2+, then? I'm running an AM3 chip on an AM2+ socket right now.

*AM2+ had split power management for the memory control and cores on the CPU. This allowed for improved power management, especially when the cores were in sleep mode.

*They also bumped up the HyperTransport to match the new AM2+ chips. I think the original AM2's were still 2000 Mhz and the AM2+ boards were 2400 Mhz (Correct me if I am wrong).

With a BIOS update, even old AM2 boards can run an AM3 chip.

Long story short, AMD fixes several issues related to the original Phenoms and they updated the socket design to reduce bottlenecks for the upcoming replacement chips when they released AM2+

 

[HillBeast]

No way for current i7. the 920/930 sucks.

Dude, are you mad? The 920s and the 930s are like the best i7s because they offer almost identical performance to the best quad core 900 series i7s and they overclock like monsters. These things easily reach well over 4.5GHz and they are unbelieveably stable. They're in a totally different league to the QX9650. For starters the QX9650 only has dual channel RAM, the 930 has EDIT: Triple. The 9650 has 4 threads, the 930 has 8 (which logic would dictate because they are both 45nm, it would use 2x the power of the 9650, but somehow Intel managed to make it not). They aren't just better than the previous generation, they are a mile ahead of them.

Don't get me wrong, Core was a great architecture, but it's not that brilliant. Nehalem is far better and there is no reviewer out there who would contradict what I'm saying.

EDIT: Man I'm a knob. why did I say quad channel memory? It's triple and I know that because I have one.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

930 has quad

.. well fudge, where's my last two ram slots?

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Well then.....I am glad to see Sandy Bridge is coming out early. I am considering building a dedicated folding rig now and I hold this will usher a price drop for the i7 920, even if it is just a little bit.

 

[Wile E]

Dude, are you mad? The 920s and the 930s are like the best i7s because they offer almost identical performance to the best quad core 900 series i7s and they overclock like monsters. These things easily reach well over 4.5GHz and they are unbelieveably stable. They're in a totally different league to the QX9650. For starters the QX9650 only has dual channel RAM, the 930 has quad. The 9650 has 4 threads, the 930 has 8 (which logic would dictate because they are both 45nm, it would use 2x the power of the 9650, but somehow Intel managed to make it not). They aren't just better than the previous generation, they are a mile ahead of them.

Don't get me wrong, Core was a great architecture, but it's not that brilliant. Nehalem is far better and there is no reviewer out there who would contradict what I'm saying.

It's triple, not quad. Just a fyi.

 

[HillBeast]

.. well fudge, where's my last two ram slots?

It's triple, not quad. Just a fyi.

Yeah I was half asleep while typing. My mistake. I know it's triple, it was a typo. I must have been thinking about quad cores...