I've seen a lot wider spread on Ivy max overclocks than on sandy. Pretty much every sandy did 4.8 4.7-5ghz on what I consider 24/7-safe volts (under 1.45v), but on Ivy I've seen max clocks go from 4.4 to 4.9ghz which I find a bit weird. I'll have to agree with you on the 3570k being the one which makes (more) sense, those things run at least a bit cooler. 
But at this point I'm seriously thinking about going with 3820+extreme4 instead of ivy+sabertooth since ivy was a letdown and I honestly hate the tiny IHS which makes heatsinks less efficient. I want more than 20% of the base of the cooler to be in contact with the chip
PCIe3.0 won't probably make that big a difference to me since I'll never be able to afford a high-end gpu which would eat that much bandwith, but since it's out there I dont see the point in getting a rig that's just 2.0 compatible (if I didnt want 3.0, I'd just go sandy and be happy).
Have you reviewed your review yet stren, I'd really love to hear your thoughts on swedish design
Edited by Blizlake - 5/4/12 at 11:12am
But at this point I'm seriously thinking about going with 3820+extreme4 instead of ivy+sabertooth since ivy was a letdown and I honestly hate the tiny IHS which makes heatsinks less efficient. I want more than 20% of the base of the cooler to be in contact with the chip
PCIe3.0 won't probably make that big a difference to me since I'll never be able to afford a high-end gpu which would eat that much bandwith, but since it's out there I dont see the point in getting a rig that's just 2.0 compatible (if I didnt want 3.0, I'd just go sandy and be happy).Have you reviewed your review yet stren, I'd really love to hear your thoughts on swedish design
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Nvidia hasnt released the drivers that would let the cards utilize PCIe 3.0 on X79, IIRC.Originally Posted by 3930K 
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The 690 uses pcie 3 on SB-E Originally Posted by juano
Not for Nvidia, yet.
Not for Nvidia, yet.
Edited by Blizlake - 5/4/12 at 11:12am
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