6-core at 5ghz will be about 40% more performance, but will not be $300.
Definitely getting IB:
My motherboard does not have any water blocks that support it and because I have a locked processor (i7 960) it makes it hard to OC very well. So the idea of a 3600K and new mobo with a waterblock intrigues me
Since X79 got butched for features i have now re-evaluated my situation and decided im going to wait for the IB-E chipset to come out that fully supports all the new features that X79 had promised.
6 cores will not average 40% more though.
It would just be synthetics and encoding.
so ivy bridge is just gonna require a bios update to work in current Z68 mobos right? usually intel requires a new socket for their new CPUs, btu in this case i can keep my Z68, update the bios, and in goes ivy bridge, right?
Die shrinks based on the current architecture have almost never required new motherboards. Look at Conroe and Penryn, Nehalem and Westmere, and now Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. What requires new motherboards is going to a new architecture, like Core 2 to Nehalem.
So yes, Z68 will support Ivy Bridge with a BIOS update. H61, H67, and P67 will, too.
ok sweet, and ivy bridge will be 6 cores and 8 cores right? if so getting a z68 mobo will keep me (mobo) upgrade free for atleast another 2 years.
I'm gonna get an Ivy Bridge laptop. Add a 28nm GPU to that for awesomeness.
So when Ivy Bridge comes out they will be available for socket 2011 X79 boards and I can just drop one in at that point?
ok sweet, and ivy bridge will be 6 cores and 8 cores right? if so getting a z68 mobo will keep me (mobo) upgrade free for atleast another 2 years.
So when Ivy Bridge comes out they will be available for socket 2011 X79 boards and I can just drop one in at that point?
And where did you hear that IB-E will have its own chipset? You realize the only thing that x79 promised and is not going to deliver is 10 6GB SATA ports and SAS support. Also USB 3.0, but that is easily fixed with 3rd party chips just like every other MB on the market today.
I doubt you will see a new chipset for the high end platform until Haswell hits.
Ivy Bridge will not support six or eight core CPUs, but Ivy Bridge-E will. Unfortunately, Ivy Bridge-E won't be released until Q3 2012 or so. Ivy Bridge will bring 5% higher IPC (per-core performance) and overclocking will be improved by 5-10%, too. Overall, 10-15% higher performance when both are overclocked for the 2500K and 2600K replacements, so not bad.
Ivy Bridge uses the 1155 socket; Ivy Bridge-E uses the LGA 2011 socket.
so if i get a z68, im stuck with 4 cores as a max upgrade path even with all ivy bridge iterations? to get an intel 6 core cpu i have to get a new mobo?
Does anyone know 100% about the IB Firmware update for bios on z68.
I saw a few posts in forms that stated the IB mb bios needs to be a higher number firmware not just a simple bios update.
To do that new firmware update I guess you must erase delete all the chip info first.
Now after the firmware flash there may be no bios info on the chip to flash the new bios to.
Hope I read wrong now mb companies never tell you complete truth.