Ivy Bridge review thread

[Sacred]

Thanks Cat looks like I'm gonna hang on till after the weekend to see if it has any effect on pricing of the i5 2500k and buy that instead I can't see any benefit for my new gaming rig splashing out on an ivy bridge processor.

[EvanJackPenn]

At the end of the day Ivy Bridge is a superior product to Sandy Bridge, and unless you can find a discounted Sandy Bridge in your price range you'd be silly not too opt for an Ivy Bridge based part. The CPU side performance advantage isn't earth-shattering, but you'd be silly to turn down an extra five percent in performance if the price is right. And that what the decision between Ivy and Sandy will really boil down to, price.S|A

Considering Charlie is rather cynical of Ivy, I think it'll be all okay

[badass]

TBH Ivy Bridge performance is no surprise but that doesn't mean it's not dissapointing. Going from Conroe to Penryn resulted in an IPC gain and a clock speed gain resulting in about 15% performance increase for the tick. With all of the speedstep, power gating etc, there's no reason why a higher clocked Ivy bridge 95w CPU would use any more power unless it's flat out than a 77w one.
However amongst the some of the reasons for me to not upgrade to a Sandy Bridge CPU were the fact that quicksync+discrete card=PITA and no native USB3. I hope Ivy Bridge has fixed both of these problems.

[shaithis]

None of the reviews seems to cover one of the greatest things the IVB platform as a whole brings:

Tons of PCI-Express lanes without going for the workstation/server platform.

Certain Z77 boards have up to 3 PCI-E 3.0 compliant slots (plus some PCI-E 2.0 slots). For someone like myself that is a god send.

I can finally buy a mainstream board and CPU which will take all my components.

[havingfun1]

Hmm, I'll probably be going for Ivy Bridge, just hope it won't be too expensive. Also when does Ib come out for sale?

[Rookie1986]

Hmm, I'll probably be going for Ivy Bridge, just hope it won't be too expensive. Also when does Ib come out for sale?

Prices shouldn't be much different than Sandy Bridge and you should be able to buy/pre-order Ivy Bridge from tomorrow I think.

[Rookie1986]

Well IVB day is here & scan have the new range up on their site so go get em guys!!