New Build: Sandy Bridge or Wait for Ivy?

Slacker7

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I have been running my socket 939 XP system 6 years and it has served me well but it is high time for a new system. :D

By mid-April I will have my budget met to build a new PC. This system will be for gaming, MS Office, internet, video streaming as well as some video rendering, etc.

I have been looking at the i7-2600 but since I have waited this long would it pay me to go with Ivy and a 2011 board?

Thanks.
 
Ivy will be on socket LGA1155, not 2011.

I would suggest that you get a Pentium G820 or i3-2100 and sit with it until ivy is released.
 
wolfeking said:
Ivy will be on socket LGA1155, not 2011.

I would suggest that you get a Pentium G820 or i3-2100 and sit with it until ivy is released.
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My bad Wolfking! Thanks for answering. I have been out of the Intel loop for a looooonnnnnnggggggg time as you can tell. :o
 
so about the same dates as SB and SB-E?

I do not really think that IB-E will be worth it from looking at SB and SB-E
 
I would not wait for ivy bridge, there probably won`t be any huge difference between it and sandybridge.

I would go for sb just now and see what haswell is like next year.
 
From my way of thinking, the main question is whether to buy now or wait until Ivy Bridge is released, rather than which to get. Other than a couple minor differences (like PCIE3 support), they offer very similar performance. Either SB now, or SB/IB once Ivy is released, due to the slightly lower SB prices and slight performance boost of IB.

Like someone else said, you could go with a cheapo dual-core 1155 cpu as a placeholder, until Ivy comes out. Or you could just as well go SB now and stick with it, or IB when it is released. No matter how you slice it, it's a win/win/win situation. Well, except by staying with socket 939. That's a lose.
 
depends on personal choice really.

Sandybridge does all the things you've listed extremely well, and the Ivy Bridge would do it too, yes a little better as 22nm technology and more transistors etc. but it comes down to personal choice
 
I've read that there will be practically no performance difference, rather just less power consumption thanks to the smaller architecture.
 
legalize said:
I've read that there will be practically no performance difference, rather just less power consumption thanks to the smaller architecture.
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there's actually a good increase in performance, somewhere between 5-10%, but considering (as an example) 7% of 1mil. is 70k, that's actually a good bit more powerful. and to hold you over if you don't buy the gpu right away or it could let you save for a better one, the HD4000 is pretty dong good really.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5626/ivy-bridge-preview-core-i7-3770k

But it does use less power (would be a few cents a month even for a person who uses it all the time), and overclocks better (with the k versions).
 
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