Intel’s third generation ”Core i” processors Ivy Bridge was initially intended to launch on April 8th, but was moved to April 29th for reasons unknown. Now the launch has been moved up a week?
The reasons for the first delay of Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors have been too much stock of Sandy Bridge left in the warehouses, problems with the new 22 nanometer technology, or bits of both. April 29th was the date that we were looking forward to, but Intel has apparently moved up the launch date with six days – to April 23rd.
The first wave of processors looked to include only quad-core processors (Core i7 also has Hyper-threading), and once again prices looks to end up on the level with equivalent Sandy Bridge models. Whether the new launch date is correct or not we don’t know, but processors and bundled motherboards with the 7 series chipsets have already been sighted in stores all over the world, which means we are close.
Source: VR-Zone
I don’t understand how Intel keeps charging $100 more for 100 more mhz and Hyper Threading over the 3570K. That’s sounds like an awful lot of $ that’s probably better spend for most people towards a faster/larger SSD or a faster videocard. That’s almost like going from an HD7870 to a GTX680.
For the vast majority, a 2500K/3570K is probably more then enough. For those that use heavily threaded applications the 3770K makes sense. But generally I would recommend 3570K and use the rest of the money for something else just like you said 🙂
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Jacob Hugosson
You guys are forgetting the extra cache that comes with the i7’s
The cache doesn’t make all that much of a difference really, at least not in the majority of applications you’d expect end-users to runt.