What is Sandy Bridge from Intel

They had to do that on purpose. I thought 2011 was the year it was coming out for so long... now I'm on the edge between buying 1366 now or waiting for 2011... any suggestions?
 
AM3+ :o

Naah, I'm not sure. I'm going to wait and see what platform supports what. I think the highest-end of AM3+ and Sandy Bridge will support quad channel memory though.
 
spynoodle said:
Well, my guess is that they won't market it that way. From what I've seen, they're marketing it as 1 module = 2 cores.
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Thats not exactly what I meant. They are claiming how much better a module can multi thread vs. a single core Intel with HT. And it only uses 12% more die space on a module compared to a full two cores.

What I am getting at.

AMD 4 module vs. Intel 4 core with HT. Both would show up to the OS as a 8 core. If they call it a 8 core or 4 module doesnt really matter. As long as they market/price it as module vs. core.

spynoodle said:
As an added bonus, the integrated graphics is faster than a discrete Radeon HD 5450 since it shares the CPU's L3 cache (it's on-die with Sandy Bridge, rather than off the main die with Westmere)
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Probably a big deal to OEMs. But really very very few of my builds are onboard. The onboard CPU/GPU is cool but doesnt really mean much to me.
 
linkin said:
AM3+ :o

Naah, I'm not sure. I'm going to wait and see what platform supports what. I think the highest-end of AM3+ and Sandy Bridge will support quad channel memory though.
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Naw, I'm going to wait for the Bulldozers before upgrading my AMD rig...
 
StrangleHold said:
Thats not exactly what I meant. They are claiming how much better a module can multi thread vs. a single core Intel with HT. And it only uses 12% more die space on a module compared to a full two cores.

What I am getting at.

AMD 4 module vs. Intel 4 core with HT. Both would show up to the OS as a 8 core. If they call it a 8 core or 4 module doesnt really matter. As long as they market/price it as module vs. core.



Probably a big deal to OEMs. But really very very few of my builds are onboard. The onboard CPU/GPU is cool but doesnt really mean much to me.
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I see what you mean. I guess the deciding factor is how much better the Bulldozer architecture in general is compared to Sandy Bridge. IMO the Phenom IIs are only currently at the Core 2 Quad level. If Bulldozer really is a big improvement, AMD may have a nice contender. Like you said, of course: Intel will still probably rule the OEM market because of their surprisingly fast on-board GPU.
 
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