Official Fulqrum Publishing forum - New system build

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Originally Posted by AdamB (Post 377356)

dont be too exited for the new ivy bridge.

its based on the sandybridge architechture but with power enhancements and what i think intel is calling the HD5000 - i.e. the upgrade from current intergrated graphics. if im correct in what ive read ivy bridge will make hardly any difference for gaming, it will just require less power to do the same job but it has slight improvements on the sandybridge as well as being made to the 22nm scale, i belive.all i need for the future is a super fast gfx card and then my computer should be able to run most things maxed out

Word is the Ivy Bridge integrated graphics is broken ...

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/01/09/i...-stage-at-ces/
http://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index/...cs-at-ces-2012
http://www.itworld.com/hardware/2400...nstead-3d-game

... not that anyone gaming even cares about integrated graphics but it may delay the full chipset release.

Aside from the dodgy. allegedly DX11. GPU the rest of the Ivy Bridge platform looks OK with a smaller die and less heat plus an improved triple channel memory controller, L3 cache and a more optimized instruction set claimed to result in a better Per Core Performance.

Downside ... CPU's seem to be shipping at more than double the price of equivalent Sandy Bridge units and the motherboards and triple channel ram kits are also more expensive. For basically almost double the price you will not be getting double the gaming performance, in fact real world gaming improvements sound like being 10 or 20% at absolute best.

Conclusion ? Only worth it if you buy gaming PCs with your spare change. Otherwise Ivy Bridge looks like it will perform a touch better than Sandy bridge in gaming but at almost double the cost.