Sandy Bridge i7 & i5 Reviews

hey miahallen, I read your review and I got to say you did an excellent job and it was very unbiased and honest.
You spoke the truth. Ive never see you write until now and i'm very impressed with your writing skills. Its a pain in the ass writing these things and you managed come up with an outstanding review. :toast:

Ive been very torn about buying a sandysetup because of how it doesn't scale with cold and if I cant bench it on ln2 then it would have to be my replacement 24/7 gaming rig. I already have a x3540 and x58 sabertooth as my 24/7 rig so I dont see the point of getting one. If I had the cash to blow I would for sure get one just out of curiosity but I dont have the cash right now. You answered all my questions with this review and I hope you get to keep all the hardware because you earned it.

job well done buddy! :)

at least you are honest. ;)
"If you currently own an X58 based system, your choice is not so cut and dry, and I think we’ve been able to determine here that while better, the difference is not so outstanding as to be worth it for most of you. With socket LGA2011 promising to have jaw-dropping performance later this year, an upgrade from LGA1366 to LGA1155 would be short lived for sure. My personal daily rig (i7 920) will be staying on X58 until LGA2011."

regarding LGA2011 i hope this aint true from maximumpc

One Socket to Rule Them All?

We’ve been warning readers that LGA1156 was a dead man walking for months now. Well, meet its replacement: LGA1155.
Yup, just one pin and your board is officially obsolete. With LGA1155, Intel is introducing four new chipsets, with only two that matter to you: H67 and P67.
There’s no native USB 3.0, but SATA 6Gb/s is now supported on up to two ports of the south bridge—support on all the ports would be too costly.
The key differences between the two chipsets is that H67 offers support for the internal graphics, and overclocking will only work on P67.

One big question is whether LGA1155 will exist only for Sandy Bridge. There have been rumors of moving the new Xeon socket LGA2011,
with its quad-channel memory, to consumers later this year, but we understand that Intel is now considering going back to a single-socket lineup.
LGA1366 will be supported with updates this year, but after that, LGA1155 could be the only game in town.

Sandy Bridge Washes Ashore

And they'll let Bulldozer dominate them? Doesn't make sense.
They better release some outstanding CPUs and chipsets with decent native USB3, SATA3 and tons of PCIE lanes. But don't think all of this goes well with using just 1155 pins...

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Originally Posted by radaja

regarding LGA2011 i hope this aint true from maximumpc

One Socket to Rule Them All?

We’ve been warning readers that LGA1156 was a dead man walking for months now. Well, meet its replacement: LGA1155.
Yup, just one pin and your board is officially obsolete. With LGA1155, Intel is introducing four new chipsets, with only two that matter to you: H67 and P67.
There’s no native USB 3.0, but SATA 6Gb/s is now supported on up to two ports of the south bridge—support on all the ports would be too costly.
The key differences between the two chipsets is that H67 offers support for the internal graphics, and overclocking will only work on P67.

One big question is whether LGA1155 will exist only for Sandy Bridge. There have been rumors of moving the new Xeon socket LGA2011,
with its quad-channel memory, to consumers later this year, but we understand that Intel is now considering going back to a single-socket lineup.
LGA1366 will be supported with updates this year, but after that, LGA1155 could be the only game in town.

Sandy Bridge Washes Ashore

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Very unlikely. Intel needs a server socket for more then 1P. S1155 can't do that.

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Originally Posted by Hornet331

Very unlikely. Intel needs a server socket for more then 1P. S1155 can't do that.

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I don't believe they are implying that Intel won't release it as a server socket, I'm sure they will. I think what they are saying is that Intel won't release consumer based boards for S2011.

Also I'm not saying this is a true statement, just that I believe you misread it.

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Originally Posted by trans am

hey miahallen, I read your review and I got to say you did an excellent job and it was very unbiased and honest.
You spoke the truth. Ive never see you write until now and i'm very impressed with your writing skills. Its a pain in the ass writing these things and you managed come up with an outstanding review. :toast:

Ive been very torn about buying a sandysetup because of how it doesn't scale with cold and if I cant bench it on ln2 then it would have to be my replacement 24/7 gaming rig. I already have a x3540 and x58 sabertooth as my 24/7 rig so I dont see the point of getting one. If I had the cash to blow I would for sure get one just out of curiosity but I dont have the cash right now. You answered all my questions with this review and I hope you get to keep all the hardware because you earned it.

job well done buddy! :)

at least you are honest. ;)
"If you currently own an X58 based system, your choice is not so cut and dry, and I think we’ve been able to determine here that while better, the difference is not so outstanding as to be worth it for most of you. With socket LGA2011 promising to have jaw-dropping performance later this year, an upgrade from LGA1366 to LGA1155 would be short lived for sure. My personal daily rig (i7 920) will be staying on X58 until LGA2011."

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Thanks trans am :toast:

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Originally Posted by radaja

regarding LGA2011 i hope this aint true from maximumpc

One Socket to Rule Them All?

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we've already seen leaked images of consumer boards....so I doubt this holds any weight ;)
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=138087

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Originally Posted by miahallen

Thanks trans am :toast:


we've already seen leaked images of consumer boards....so I doubt this holds any weight ;)
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=138087

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Knowing me I will prob end up getting it just to play with something new. can you tell me is the 4x4 hole pattern on the cpu the same holes as 1156 was?

Yes, they're the same :up:

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Originally Posted by miahallen

Yes, they're the same :up:

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cool. the xshwbot team thread is a tightly knit bunch its the 1st place I go to see what is happening. pretty much all the active members have messed with sandy bridge except me and I asked them what they thought of it.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=2903

is there a reason they have no dramatic scale in cold? its so strange to me why everything has scaled with extreme cooling until now. i can understand if it was a simple cold bug but even with a cold bug at -70c you would at least see a heavy increase over h20 / cold air temps. its beyond me. it makes me want to get some ln2 an bench all my old crap again and see if I can break my old personal records.

I should probably insulate this sabertooth board and see what this x3540 can do and if i kill it i buy a sandy rig to replace it..

Gigabyte UD7 vs ASUS MIVE :up:

Good comparison by Miahallen for those interested.

Intel Core i7-2700K Review
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1751/1/

back from the dead but thanks for the info.