http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/reeeeeeeeeeead the article. Then post.]]>Jul 14th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/This is worth buying. It will give a substantial performance & OC leap above i7. i7 was completely avoidable for those who had 45nm Core 2 Quads.]]>Jul 14th 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
But will it be worth buying a new board as well? That's the question for most people.]]>Jul 14th 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
That refers to the silicon and not the socket (which will be 1155 rather than 1156).]]>Jul 14th 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Unless you game or do heavy rendering or something, everything has been completely avoidable since the Core 2 Duo's just as this will be. I game somewhat (Far Cry, Starcraft 2, etc) and I haven't had a problem with anything on my launch C2D e6600, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 4850

Intel has sort of gotten intself into a corner: with the Core 2 Duo's they released a processor that was fast enough and that would stay fast enough for waaaay too long. Before, you needed new processors just to run the new versions of Windows, but now everything but Crysis runs without a hitch on a 4-year-old processor (obviously the RAM and GPU have been upgraded), so I see no reason to upgrade.]]>Jul 14th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/I have a similar setup to you: e6600 at launch, 4GB RAM, GTX 260. I've played the same games and recently I've been playing Bioshock 2 at the highest settings at 2560x1600.
Still, I'm planning on upgrading to a Sandy Bridge and a next gen AMD graphics card if one comes out this year. Four years between CPU upgrades is a long time for me.]]>Jul 14th 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Actually, some recent games have been very taxing on the CPU lately. I have an E6600 and there are some games that really hit my CPU hard.

Grand Theft Auto IV and Bad Company 2 come to mind. In those games, even with my HD 5870, it's difficult to break 30 and 40 FPS on average, respectively.]]>Jul 14th 2010 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
Cool.]]>Jul 14th 2010 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
If only their chipset roadmaps could be 'accelerated' as well. Where's my USB 3.0, Intel?

As well as ubiquitous SATA 6.0 Gbps and PCIe 2.1 for that matter.]]>Jul 14th 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Wow. What kind of company do you work for?

Everyone here gets at least a Core 2 Duo for their workstation, and I've seen a few Core 2 Quads as well. I also know one lucky guy with a Core i7 for his workstation, but that's definitely not the norm.]]>Jul 14th 2010 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
I highly agree with this post. The Core 2 series of CPUs was an amazing bunch that is definitely still usable, and, actually, quite good, today. In fact, the only reason I moved up to a Core i7 at home was because encoding h.264 video is SO MUCH FASTER on it than a Core 2 Duo, and I've been doing a lot of video encoding recently.]]>Jul 14th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
aXXo??! i thought you stopped making movies?!?!]]>Jul 14th 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
The competing AMD chipset has been codenamed Sandy Vagina

-jp
]]>Jul 15th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/And what about 65nm Core 2 Quads like my Q6600? I don't think the i7s are worth it even coming from that.

Maybe Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge will change that, but I'm not sure at the moment. Chances are I might even skip that for Haswell/Rockwell.

If an upgrade involves replacing the RAM and motherboard in addition to the CPU, I'd better see at least a twofold performance increase. Can't afford to keep up with the upgrade treadmill otherwise.]]>Jul 16th 2010 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
By the way Sandy Bridge is a new socket (1155) which seems so cheeky on intels part it really makes me want to go AMD. If only they would speed up their damn releases. ]]>Jul 14th 2010 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Actually AMD is good in the desktop processor area.... they just fail horribly with their laptop processors.]]>Jul 14th 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/AMD's catered to the budget market for years now I think they're comfortable where they are. Plus AMD haven't released their CPU + IGP solution yet so who know what will happen.]]>Jul 14th 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/You sure?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuGwPnWrpow
This confidential 1156 CPU could be sandy bridge.]]>Jul 14th 2010 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
Probably just an engineering sample. Intel HAVE announced SaB to be on 1155.]]>Jul 14th 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Im just hoping as my new i3 & 1156 board just arrived this morning and I'd hate to have to get a new board in the next year.]]>Jul 14th 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
]]>Jul 14th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/The latest 6 core AMD processors kick Intel's ass in power/$
AMD kicks their asses in GPUs, which will become very important once CPU on GPU becomes mainstream.
Don't be surprised to see Macs switch to a custom AMD Fusion chip in the future.]]>Jul 14th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
Macs on Intel? Yarite.]]>Jul 14th 2010 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
Macs on Intel? Yarite.]]>Jul 14th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
Macs on Intel? Yarite.]]>Jul 14th 2010 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/The new macs ARE on intel. And he said power/$ and not raw power. I think we all realize that intel still has the most powerfull x86_64 CPU's but AMD has better pricing per power CPU.]]>Jul 14th 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
in my optinion AMD is only good for GPUs. Which they make the best of. NVIDIA]]>Jul 14th 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
opinion]]>Jul 14th 2010 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
I couldn't agree more. I think some people were missing my original point. I'm not saying AMD can't viably survive as a company by any means, I meant survive on an Intel competitor basis...give Intel enough reason to keep innovating. Look at the two companies revenues...how much more can Intel put into R/D vs AMD? (A LOT) It's simple economics. Yes there is some interesting possibilities with CPU/GPU stuff they are working on but that's probably going to help in certain areas, not going to be a game changer for the overall PC market for quite some time.]]>Jul 14th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
People are just upranking you for your icon.

-jp
]]>Jul 15th 2010 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
That's what she said!]]>Jul 14th 2010 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Jul 14th 2010 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/umm, what?!
you know that Apple doesn't make their own CPUs, and that they buy them from intel, right?

or was that another blind troll comment? either way, *downranked*]]>Jul 14th 2010 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/I dont care about apple's (milkiing-fanboys)profit but as it seems they will put an extra delay because of their recent and relatively late nehalem refresh.
that means an extra delay ontop of the ordinary delay we saw with the nehalem..
if you sum that you can read out that apple might even skip the first sandy-bridge based cpus.

just talking of the macbooks ... iMacs might get updated

]]>Jul 14th 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Not too tech-knowledgeable so may be wrong, but with the introduction of the Apple's proprietary ARM-based A4 chip Intel doesn't get any product in the beef of Apple's lineup- iPhones & iPads. You just talking about Macs?]]>Jul 14th 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/
The point is that Intel wont be going anywhere because of x86. Apple can't just switch onto A4 chips for everything because nothing on the Mac range will run on that architecture.

That and A4 chips really aren't powerful enough for the desktop.]]>Jul 14th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Steve Jobs lies about proprietary.]]>Jul 14th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/intels-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-tape-out-ahead-of-schedule-could-b/Or, more likely, as is their trend, was to not jump on iX processors until they were certain intel's next offering used the same core components/sockets/chipsets. Apple got burned with Intel shifting around socket requirements already, having to hard redesign every system to get iX into them, they were not likely to do that twice in 2 years. Good move.

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