I wanna see some Sandy Bridge Results

[trn]

Hey trn, are you gonna work on getting 200k ppd for next year, I mean with sandybridge you could even save some electricity and almost double your output the team could sure use it if were ever gonna catch up with team2ch


terramir

Maybe 2012 or late 2011, I'll get a SB or two to play with in the meantime I think ill convert my main rig to a 2600k and put that 980x out to crunching pasture.

The current SBs are great rigs but I'm a little unexcited by the long delay in the high end SB, I want more crunching power than a Gulftown/Westmere. For Intel it was a great decision to focus on the 4c and 2c models because at this time who really needs 8c or 16c rigs? (besides us ). Games and such don't need the cores and windows and IE will run fine on much less.

100k takes 16 hexas and some change, not really looking to double+ that number of rigs. where would I sleep? my house would be overrun with crunchers . If a 4c/8t 32nm does 6k or so boinc then I can't wait to see what a 22nm "Tock" Ivy Bridge monster will do with 8c or 12c. I would settle for a 8c/16t SB in the meantime, 12k for a single socket... And a dualie

I've heard mixed things about Gigabyte support. You may recall another team member, johnmark, had big problems with his board. I didn't see anyone from Gigabyte offering him any assistance here.

I think you misunderstood my post. My main system uses a Gigabyte X58 board. I have three ASUS crunchers, two by Gigabyte and one by Supermicro. I've always been partial to ASUS. I had one ASUS cruncher that ran non-stop for almost four years. The Supermicro board has been equally dependable. I also had an EVGA board that almost everyone at this forum declared to be a piece of crap run non-stop for three years. I'm not married to any one board-maker. Even ASUS has made crap boards. But they also made a lot of boards that were used to set world records.

Tech loyalties can be a bit silly but I still have mine based on my own experiences, as always YMMV And come to think of it I've never really had a terrible mobo, I do have one board from a manufacturer that refuses to OC the 980x in it past 4GHz, and that mediocre board did cost more than a UD3

Another random thought, why no EVGA P67's? Did I miss some sort of news about EVGA not making mobos anymore? Edit nm, http://www.evga.com/articles/00604/ they just are late to launch it seems.

I do have a question regarding the Asus P67's. Why is the Intel nic considered an advantage vs Realtek, is there really that much of a difference in the nic?