The Ivy Bridge Preview: Core i7 3770K Tested

[Azurite]

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I am amazed by the performance and i didnt think we would see benches this soon. I forgot it was suposed to be launched the 8th of march

 

[PEXON]

What surprises me is the performance of the onboard graphics. Look at the Crisis benchmarks and its better than Intel HD3000, better than a GT520 and a few other low end cards and getting up there with proper cards and the AMD chips with built in GPUs. Look at the power consumption too, damn thats good. I definitely looks like it was worth the wait! My bank is going to get a pounding soon!

 

[Azurite]

What surprises me is the performance of the onboard graphics. Look at the Crisis benchmarks and its better than Intel HD3000, better than a GT520 and a few other low end cards and getting up there with proper cards and the AMD chips with built in GPUs. Look at the power consumption too, damn thats good. I definitely looks like it was worth the wait! My bank is going to get a pounding soon!

Yeah they are catching up on AMD on the IGPU part. I think overall this cpu is doing great as it is on top of almost every bench.

 

[SieB]

I saw another review earlier from a Chinese site, don't know how legit it is but they have a 3770k overclocked to 5ghz with 1.27v

that's awesome if true.

http://translate.google.com/transla...=http://news.mydrivers.com/1/218/218443_7.htm

If this is what Ivy can do i'm looking forward to Haswell next year

 

[Azurite]

I saw another review earlier from a Chinese site, don't know how legit it is but they have a 3770k overclocked to 5ghz with 1.27v

that's awesome if true.

http://translate.google.com/transla...=http://news.mydrivers.com/1/218/218443_7.htm

If this is what Ivy can do i'm looking forward to Haswell next year

Yeah ive seen even less vcore for high oc(think it was 1.17v @ 4.8). Its going to be really fun to see how far people can push these cpu's

Im grabbing a 3770k myself asap when they are in stock.

 

[PEXON]

Dependant on price, I may go for the 3770K, if its going to be silly money then I may go for the 2500K replacement, which I'm sure will be getting on for current 2600K speeds.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Dependant on price, I may go for the 3770K, if its going to be silly money then I may go for the 2500K replacement, which I'm sure will be getting on for current 2600K speeds.

Prices are rumoured to be the same as SB Prices and hopefully they are.

 

[PEXON]

I hope they are! Next month is going to be expensive for me. New mobo, new CPU, new GPU... oh ****

 

[yassarikhan786]

I hope they are! Next month is going to be expensive for me. New mobo, new CPU, new GPU... oh ****

No drinking next month then

 

[ThatBattlefieldGuy]

I'm really looking for the price drops on sandy. I read that Intel are going to heavily cut prices on them, hopefully a 2600k will be only marginally dearer than a 3750k.

 

[Rastalovich]

IB + PCIE3.0 gfxcard bench -V- SB + PCIE3.0(using 2.0) gfxcard bench.

Try and keep the cpus at more or less same performance, using the same mobo too. That'd be nice to see.

Someone's gonna do it.

 

[Damien c]

I hope they all can do 5.0ghz with using less than 1.3v.

From what I have seen around the net they seem to be ranging from 1.17v up to 1.325v.

 

[PEXON]

No drinking next month then

There is always time for drinking!

 

[yassarikhan786]

There is always time for drinking!

I was talking about money wise

 

[MaXiMiZe]

Nice results. Can't wait till it hits the market although I'm going to have to sell one of my kidneys

 

[Damien c]

I hope they are! Next month is going to be expensive for me. New mobo, new CPU, new GPU... oh ****

This month is going to be expensive for me, new mobo, ram and potentially dependant on performance 2 Nvidia card's or 2 AMD 7970's.

 

[Ya93sin]

LOL I'm beginning to realise I really need a job this summer

 

[PEXON]

I was talking about money wise

I'll find a way!

 

[marsey99]

pr fodder is pr fooder.

people seem to be expecting ivy to be another sandy yet its not, sandy was great but its igp sucks, ivy is looking like its pretty much the same clock for clock but has a better igp to take on the llano and to get ready for trinity.

how the shrink will effect clocking only time will tell, that es was shown doing 5ghz on 1.275vcore and maybe thats a golden chip or maybe its run of the mill, only time will tell once we get them in out hands.

i know 1 thing for sure, i am in no rush to replace my 25k with an ivy but i am waiting for z77 as i want a better board, then maybe down the road once i need pci e3 i will swap it out for a chip that has it.

 

[Master&Puppet]

pr fodder is pr fooder.

people seem to be expecting ivy to be another sandy yet its not, sandy was great but its igp sucks, ivy is looking like its pretty much the same clock for clock but has a better igp to take on the llano and to get ready for trinity.

how the shrink will effect clocking only time will tell, that es was shown doing 5ghz on 1.275vcore and maybe thats a golden chip or maybe its run of the mill, only time will tell once we get them in out hands.

i know 1 thing for sure, i am in no rush to replace my 25k with an ivy but i am waiting for z77 as i want a better board, then maybe down the road once i need pci e3 i will swap it out for a chip that has it.

Agree. We are likely to see a 5-10% base increase and another 5-10% from the OC. If some one has an SB then it probably won't be worth an upgrade since we all use graphics cards. If you are running something older, or something poorer (AMD like me) then IB will be a big upgrade.

Anyone who needs to chew up threads will still need SB-E.

Nothing has really changed as far as I can see, but I'm still REALLY excited about getting a 3770k since Bulldozer was such a flop and I wanted a new cpu then!