Quote:Originally Posted by samwiches I traded a SB system (5GHz 1.36v) for an IB (4.5GHz 1.26v). This IB does not reach equal horsepower.
No reason to buy Ivy right now, unless you just want 4.4-4.5g OC, or you want 64X Multi for...
I'd be grateful for a 2700k+680. The 3930K is great and it has some interesting gains in mimimum fps in packed out BF3 multiplayer... 15-20% over the quad cores. That's like one of the very rare gaming scenarios where you would be more...
Quote:Originally Posted by Goharder "Low end"
3770K is this segment's high end, however it is assembled in the same manner as the previous low-end. I think that's what was meant by the comment you quoted.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Hambone07si I just build 2 systems over the past week both with Asus Pro boards, z68 2500k and z77 3570k. Both with hyper 212's, SB reached 5ghz stable and encoded a movie at 47min, Ivy reached 4.4ghz with...
Quote:Originally Posted by G3RG I think that's probably a tad bit of an exaggeration... There are reasons to upgrade besides performance (btw IB IS faster and overclocks plenty well). I upgraded to IB not for a performance boost...