Official Sandy Bridge discussion thread?

[McNevin]

So think it's about time we had a Sandy Bridge discussion thread!

To start things off...

http://www.techspot.com/review/380-inte ... d-roundup/

[R3C]

Toawk amungst yahselves.

I'll give you a toapic:

Sandy Bridge and you.

Discuss!



I really haven't been following it very closely. I should probably take a look though.

[enderzero]

I'm 100% onboard but don't care about that p67 mobo roundup because the Z68 comes out in 2 weeks. It allows for both onboard graphics (for its awesome video transcoding abilities) and still overclocking and discrete for games. This is possible with the Virtu sw that is being licensed by mobo manufacturers it sounds like as of this week.

More on Z68: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z68 ... ,2888.html

More on Virtu: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4199/luci ... -platforms

More on Sandy Bridge: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the- ... 100-tested

Pretty sure I'm gonna go 2500K + Z68 + 8GB + 5770 next month. Ohhh and I just bought a 128GB Crucial Sata III SSD.

[R3C]

This looks fairly interesting now that I read a bit about it. I don't know if it's enough of a jump for me though currently. I've been running this i7 system for what seems like forever now, and I still haven't seen it struggle with anything at all. I'm only running a GTX-460 board for graphics too. Most games run perfectly at sync. A few of the heavier ones like Metro 2033 are smooth, but you can tell it not quite locked at 60. However, this is more video related than CPU. I've yet to feel like it isn't performing as much as I'd like with anything. (emulation, large audio, encoding of any kind, games, dick-heads, sluts, bloods, motor-heads, dweebies, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude!)

This may be the first time I've ever had the same PC for this long. I've shifted a couple of video cards through it, but the base system has been in place for a LONG time now.

[N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!!]

I'm following the Seth approach to PC upgrades...my machine is pretty damn solid for what I do so it will probably be a long time before I do anything...The last time I played a video game was Doom II and it seemed to handle that pretty well of course. Before that may have actually been in October...

I'll probably not be upgrading any time soon. I'll be waiting for the floating bridge platform or something...

[R3C]

Yeah, the cloudy bridge chipset and the rainbow bridge chipset are supposed to be amazing!

Mine WAS solid until SP1 had its way with it.