Early Ivy Bridge Sample Tested

[SoF]

Please some1 tell us Intel can't have failed this much with Ivy, that people are concidering going with Sandy Bridge instead of Ivy (for those not owning a SB yet) is not a very good sight.

Will it really be lower though when starting to approach 4.5GHz+ clocks is the question as it seems that's whereabouts the temps also starts to climb quickly.

The main issue is people only see that hight temps floating around without some propper summary...

Facts:

- stock clock is now 3.9 on all cores - at least on MVG - which will beat the crap out of sandy on stock
- 1.2V will get you 4.3-4.5 on mid / low 70s with a medium aftermarket air cooler
- DDR3-2600 seems easy with the right RAM
- add the last 2 points and you get the performance of Sandy near 4.8-4.9...
- sandy just was bad ass chip on air / water showing the best out of "traditional" transistors before new 3D-gen...
- there might be a new stepping someday which will add the missing MHZ...just for the guys looking only at mhz...

The Virtu MVP feature looks usefull for increased FPS can the 2600K use Virtu MVP?

Virtu MVP is just marketing stuff.

This!