SB air or water cooling?

[RussianSensation]

It pulls close to 30k points on WCG which ranks it near a i7 @ 3.6-3.8ghz @ stock settings.

Doesn't seem impressive to me. That means SB 2600 @ 3.4ghz ~ Core i7 @ 3.8ghz (or a 12% difference). Looks like I am waiting until 2011 comes out unless some insane deal pops up on the 2600K.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Doesn't seem impressive to me. That means SB 2600 @ 3.4ghz ~ Core i7 @ 3.8ghz (or a 12% difference). Looks like I am waiting until 2011 comes out unless some insane deal pops up on the 2600K.

Yeah, but SB appear to overclock well. So 4.5 on a 2600K is equal to 5+ on the older i7's...

 

[aigomorla]

Yeah, but SB appear to overclock well. So 4.5 on a 2600K is equal to 5+ on the older i7's...

now where are you pulling this?
It doesnt have enough physical cores for everyone dude..

This dude is cranking 5Ghz at 1.5v or more importantly 4.7 at 1.35v

http://www.overclock.net/intel-general/890563-15-days-till-sandy-bridge-released.html

i think i said 4.5-4.7 was possible on decient vcore.

The system will hold 4.5ghz @ 1.312 Vcore.

The system will not do 5ghz unless you pump a exponential amount of vcore.

The 5 cpu's he's got to play with only 1 could do 4.7ghz with acceptable voltages of around 1.375,

So u wanna tell me i dont the 2600K?

*goes back in line with all the other people waiting for LGA2011*

And once again + 1 to my last line.

Give me the 20meg cache 8 core super monsters lga2011 is suposed to introduce.

 

[RussianSensation]

Yeah, but SB appear to overclock well. So 4.5 on a 2600K is equal to 5+ on the older i7's...

Right, but even so that means $300 CPU + $130 mobo = $430 for a ~30% performance increase. I wonder for how much 6- and 8-core 2011 CPUs will debut at. :hmm:

 

[IntelUser2000]

Doesn't seem impressive to me. That means SB 2600 @ 3.4ghz ~ Core i7 @ 3.8ghz (or a 12% difference). Looks like I am waiting until 2011 comes out unless some insane deal pops up on the 2600K.

I'm not fully sure how WCG works but it seems like a part of BOINC project. If its in any way related to BOINC the benchmark doesn't really stress the memory subsystem.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Right, but even so that means $300 CPU + $130 mobo = $430 for a ~30% performance increase. I wonder for how much 6- and 8-core 2011 CPUs will debut at. :hmm:

For you perhaps but I'll be coming from a Q6600 at 3.2 so having a SB cpu at 4+ is a big improvement.

Add in the fact that it is likely that you can slot in a 6 or even 8 core IB CPU in 2012 and it looks like a good upgrade path for Core 2/Phenom owners and even socket 1156 owners with i5 CPU's.

 

[RussianSensation]

For you perhaps but I'll be coming from a Q6600 at 3.2 so having a SB cpu at 4+ is a big improvement.

For you the difference will be noticeable. I7 is 20% faster per clock than a C2Q and SB is another 10% or so. That means it will be 30% faster per clock than your processor. If you get it to 4.5ghz+, you are looking at a 5.9ghz C2Q equivalent.

 

[Rifter]

For you perhaps but I'll be coming from a Q6600 at 3.2 so having a SB cpu at 4+ is a big improvement.

Add in the fact that it is likely that you can slot in a 6 or even 8 core IB CPU in 2012 and it looks like a good upgrade path for Core 2/Phenom owners and even socket 1156 owners with i5 CPU's.

I disagree, they will force you to 2011 for 6 or 8 cores. While intel has the best CPU's they dont have the best upgrade paths. Look at 1156 for example, they didnt even get the 32nm 6 cores that 1366 got. 1155 is the mainstream platform and has no need for 8 core CPU's.

 

[PreferLinux]

Well, with 4 cores at entry level, I would expect to have 6 cores for the top 1155 CPUs, but not 8.

 

[borisvodofsky]

I just want to play starcraft 2,, finally at 60 fps.. fingers crossed for 4.6ghz min..

 

[StinkyPinky]

I disagree, they will force you to 2011 for 6 or 8 cores. While intel has the best CPU's they dont have the best upgrade paths. Look at 1156 for example, they didnt even get the 32nm 6 cores that 1366 got. 1155 is the mainstream platform and has no need for 8 core CPU's.

We are all guessing. I think they will release a 6-core part for 1155. But it will be ivy bridge. Hopefully the first gen mobos are compatible.

Oh well, makes life interesting.

 

[amenx]

Well, pushing on getting the final decisions made for my 2011 build.

Originally I had planned for a full water-cooled system.

However seeing the SB 2600k running 5g+ on air cooling leaves me asking if heat really is the limiting factor on the CPU?

Am I going to get anything more out of the chip with a water block? or should I save the money ?

If one SB chip does 5ghz, it does NOT mean all other SBs are capable of that.

 

[Dark Shroud]

10 years ago we had 200mhz or so cpu.
anyone still run those?

a lifespan of 5 or so years is the upgrade path due to how tech has progressed.
its cheaper, much cheaper than only 5 years ago.
I get a high end machine for a fourth what I paid 5 years ago.

sure some run them long, but cpu is made to be spanked.

I have a Pentium 233mhz & a Pentium 2 400mhz that still run. I have XP installed I just can't really do anything with them beyound browseing the web, as long as no flash, java, or silverlight apps try to run.