Don't know if you guys have seen this, obviously taken with a pinch of salt http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/33380/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
I saw this yesterday and to be honest I am not sure about it, because there is no speed increases in terms of GHZ over the existing cpu's, although it's supposed to be smaller and using less power you would have thought the clock speeds would have increased. The main thing that is annoying me is, that they keep producing chips with graphics built in when they could easily just take them out and produce a 6 or 8 core cpu, as most people who would buy the 4770K or whatever it gets called, would already have a decent mid-high end graphics card anyway.
Well, we got two generations of chips out of S1155, for Intel that's like a million years without a new socket standard.
90% of the people who buy them use the onboard graphics in the K series chips for ivybridge. As they are put into Office machines that might need the CPU performance but not any GPU performance. Also colleges buy these sort of chips and do not want the extra expense of a GPU. Just cause the enthusaist market hates onboard does not mean everybody else does. ( we are less than 1% of the total computer market ) Its also time for a new socket. Intel will not release a 6-8 core cpu into there mainstream boards as it would take away any reason to purchase the top end chips + mobos. 4 core is the max for now and for the forseeable future in truth.
I've not got anything against onboard graphics - just for 'office use' a £175 CPU (3570K) is overkill - an i3 would be much more suited (and even then still overpowered)
Maybe these chips will have a much better IPC than 1155? I can't see them reducing clock speeds for any other reason. I'm sure we'll see. Hell, with the integrated graphics thing, why not produce something like a 3570K or 3770K without the integrated graphics, and charge £10 less for it? It has to be cheaper on Intel's side even if they have to re-engineer part of a chip.
Its most likely cheaper for intel to put the graphics core on even if its disabled due to the way manufacturing works.
Looking at it though, with games coming out next year and the fact that I am sticking with Windows 7 for now I cannot see the point in getting 1 of these chips. Think if I want to spend money on my pc now, it will be a 2nd GTX 680 and Sandy Bridge E.
This. Many different models are manufactured on the same silicon disc. Physically speaking they are all identical. Afterwards they are binned according to how high the clock frequency can be set and which parts have manufacturing flaws. Manufacturing silicon chips is very delicate and such errors are very common, so not all chips from a disc can be top-end -- in fact, very few are, hence the high price.
