Sandy Brdige Chipset Info + Sandy Bridge-E

nightmare99 · 18 Dec 2010 at 07:45

Cant believe they are dropping 1366 so soon. It is surely just a money grabbing exercise.

So soon? It has been out almost three years.

DragonQ · 18 Dec 2010 at 13:06

No, two years.

nightmare99 · 18 Dec 2010 at 13:10

Ok closer to two, that is still a long time.

andyr · 18 Dec 2010 at 21:02

will these Sandy Bridge processors work on x58 motherboards

nightmare99 · 18 Dec 2010 at 21:04

will these Sandy Bridge processors work on x58 motherboards

No, there will be a replacement socket towards the end of next year called LGA 2011 to take the Sandy Bridge-E processors.

andyr · 18 Dec 2010 at 21:30

nightmare99 said:
No, there will be a replacement socket towards the end of next year called LGA 2011 to take the Sandy Bridge-E processors.

so why is the processor release on Jan the 9th :confused:

edit: these are for i5 replacement (1156) ? or will these work on i5 boards

Helios1234 · 18 Dec 2010 at 21:32

nightmare99 said:
Ok closer to two, that is still a long time.

Indeed, by the time LGA2011 comes out, 1366 will be quite old. It goes to show how successful it's been.

Sayso · 19 Dec 2010 at 15:46

Helios1234 said:
Indeed, by the time LGA2011 comes out, 1366 will be quite old. It goes to show how successful it's been.

Especially as the 920 is still considered high end (and is!!)

RJC · 19 Dec 2010 at 16:01

andyr said:
so why is the processor release on Jan the 9th

edit: these are for i5 replacement (1156) ? or will these work on i5 boards

The cpu's being launched in Jan are the replacement for the current i5 1156 sockets, the new cpu's will use a new socket 1155 which is not compatible with 1156 boards.

Socket 1366 replacement is due later in the year.

Hopefully I got that correct! :eek:

Dark_Angel · 19 Dec 2010 at 16:23

RJC said:
The cpu's being launched in Jan are the replacement for the current i5 1156 sockets, the new cpu's will use a new socket 1155 which is not compatible with 1156 boards.

Socket 1366 replacement is due later in the year.

Hopefully I got that correct!

Believe so...

RJC · 19 Dec 2010 at 16:25

Makes a change

TrojanWhore · 19 Dec 2010 at 17:06

DragonQ said:
Sorry but this sounds like nonsense. The only thing I could find about this was regarding the P35 chipset, which had datasheets mentioning PCI-E 2.0 but these plans were scrapped and it had PCI-E 1.1 instead, leading to confusion.

However, all chipsets since then (at least the P, Q, X and H series) have PCI-E 2.0.

a) the original post in this thread has a row in the table called 'PCI express 2.0 lanes (2.5GT/s)'

b) http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/chipsets/p55/p55-overview.htm scroll to near the bottom of features and benefits, once again, 2.5GT/s.
Doesn't say the same for x58, so i guess you guys are safe

RoEy · 19 Dec 2010 at 17:11

Think I'll stick with my 920 d0. Can't see the point in upgrading really.

RoEy

DragonQ · 19 Dec 2010 at 18:10

TrojanWhore said:
a) the original post in this thread has a row in the table called 'PCI express 2.0 lanes (2.5GT/s)'

b) http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/chipsets/p55/p55-overview.htm scroll to near the bottom of features and benefits, once again, 2.5GT/s.
Doesn't say the same for x58, so i guess you guys are safe

It's probably a typo. Why would they be using PCI-E 1.1 for LGA1155 after years of using 2.0?

r3loaded · 21 Dec 2010 at 11:24

I don't understand the purpose of the Z68 - what sort of user would need both IGP and multi-GPU support on the same board?

nightmare99 · 21 Dec 2010 at 11:33

Not sure, what is the advanced SSD caching as that seems to be the only other differentiator?

phil128 · 21 Dec 2010 at 11:40

I don't know too much about sandy bridge. I've heard that Intel are limiting the overclocking ability on their chips. If so then I'm gonna start to think they will lost their foothold within the overclocking industry/casual hobbyist.

MMMMM interesting

Bane · 27 Dec 2010 at 15:08

Any reason to hold out for the Z68? SSD caching being the reason.

lolage · 27 Dec 2010 at 16:30

Which sandy bridge will replace the Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz and how much will it cost?

Budget is around £150.

malachi · 28 Dec 2010 at 11:15

RoEy said:
Think I'll stick with my 920 d0. Can't see the point in upgrading really.

RoEy

Same here, I brought my 920 since it first came out and I haven’t even bothered to overclocked it yet as its running everything i want it to. Intel releasing all these replacement socket types...for what?!?! Just to show how good they look on benchmarks but yet to the human eye performance is minimal.
All these extra features such as EFI could easily be integrated into current or previous chipsets without changing socket types.

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