The new Intel Ivy Bridge hits 7.0 GHz OC

[pansertjald]

don`t know if this has all ready been posted.

the new Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K has hit 7 GHz OC on dry ice

so this is looking realy nice for the new line of Ivy Bridge cpu`s

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...overclock.aspx

[apepi]

1.889 Volts damn....but I think they did mess with the blck...

[Deleted]

Pentium 4 got up to 8ghz OC. Been on dry ice/phase cooling really shows nothing. Now if someone would release a OC on air/water cooling

[Shaqur]

Pentium 4 got up to 8ghz OC. Been on dry ice/phase cooling really shows nothing. Now if someone would release a OC on air/water cooling

Pentium with only 1 core. This is on all 4 cores.

[Deleted]

Pentium with only 1 core. This is on all 4 cores.

Makes no different to a consumer at all. The old i7 2600k hit 5.7ghz (source) on air. Couldn't find a link to a phase cooled i7 2600k. A consumer such as ourselves are not going to get close to 7ghz. 5ghz on air and i will be happy but as proven, people are doing this already. Then again, clock speeds aren't even half the story.

[Ghâzh]

Makes no different to a consumer at all. The old i7 2600k hit 5.7ghz (source) on air. Couldn't find a link to a phase cooled i7 2600k. A consumer such as ourselves are not going to get close to 7ghz. 5ghz on air and i will be happy but as proven, people are doing this already. Then again, clock speeds aren't even half the story.

It has mostly no use in reality but it's a good indication that the die shrink handles overclocking better compared to sandy. i5's and i7's are limited, like you said, at 5.5-6.0GHz area, no matter what kind of cooling you used as it has nothing to do with the temperatures. You could literally freeze them to absolute zero and it'd make no difference.

Now these news look promising as it'd mean that the regular consumer could potentially bring the chip much higher than 5.7GHz with high end air/ liquid cooling. I'm excited, at least .

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

You could literally freeze them to absolute zero and it'd make no difference.

[nitpicking]Freezing them to 0K would make them not do anything, as the electrons would cease to move around the circuitry[/nitpicking]

I am looking forwards to an air/water OC though, as this can then be put up against what we, as the general consumers, will be able to expect.

[Acquilae]

Then again, clock speeds aren't even half the story.

This; it doesn't matter how high an OC'er gets the processor on an exotic cooling method. In the end the thing we wanna see is how it'll do in consumer benchmarks and games.

AMD got Bulldozer FX to 8GHz+ and it didn't mean a lot after the reviewers got their hands on it to see just how underwhelming it was.

[Ghâzh]

[nitpicking]Freezing them to 0K would make them not do anything, as the electrons would cease to move around the circuitry[/nitpicking]

I am looking forwards to an air/water OC though, as this can then be put up against what we, as the general consumers, will be able to expect.

Heh.
[nitpickingaboutyournitpicking]Absolute zero is merely theoritical. It cannot even be reached in real word.[/nitpickingaboutyournitpicking]

[kailtas]

AMD got Bulldozer FX to 8GHz+ and it didn't mean a lot after the reviewers got their hands on it to see just how underwhelming it was.

Correct, but the Bulldozer had several cores disables.

[pansertjald]

the news is up on a danish hardware site now and they have pictures of benchmarks to with the 7 GHz oc......... don`t know why the first site din`t have any bench pictures.

the site is in danish, but just take a look at the bench picture. its a super PI bench

http://hwt.dk/Nyhed/22062/Ivy-Bridge-viser-taender

[kidsafe]

Correct, but the Bulldozer had several cores disables.

It. does. not. matter. I fully expect Ivy Bridge to be overclockable to 5.5GHz under 1.4V on water for benching purposes, but even then not every chip will be capable of it. The 3770K's clockspeed indicates to me that overclocking Ivy Bridge won't be that much better than Sandy Bridge.

[ComputerNerd]

What it gets to on a typical consumer cooling system, and how it benchmarks out is more important.
A real world example tells you a lot more than that ever will.

[Drunkenvalley]

Not to mention seeing the actual performance of the darn things.

[Saithes]

It seems they eliminated the cold bug that plagues Sandybridge which is good I guess but yeah.. I'd rather see real world and practical use overclocks than extreme.

[Lebronchanez]

How much will it be, and will it be worth upgrading from my i7 950 OC'd on air to 3.7

[kidsafe]

How much will it be, and will it be worth upgrading from my i7 950 OC'd on air to 3.7

The best time to upgrade was in January of last year when Sandy Bridge first came out. I do not believe Ivy Bridge will manifest as a considerable leap in performance for the enthusiast crowd. Ivy Bridge's strengths are in its lower/configurable TDP and the beefed up integrated graphics. Then again if you feel the itch to upgrade now, then Ivy Bridge is the obvious choice. Without competition from AMD, there's no telling whether Intel's next-generation Haswell micro-architecture will ship in early 2013.

[DeltrusDisc]

The best time to upgrade was in January of last year when Sandy Bridge first came out. I do not believe Ivy Bridge will manifest as a considerable leap in performance for the enthusiast crowd. Ivy Bridge's strengths are in its lower/configurable TDP and the beefed up integrated graphics. Then again if you feel the itch to upgrade now, then Ivy Bridge is the obvious choice. Without competition from AMD, there's no telling whether Intel's next-generation Haswell micro-architecture will ship in early 2013.

Eh, I think if you already had a decent Gulftown CPU, it was okay to stick with it, but Ivy Bridge I think, if it is the way we suspect, should be a reason to upgrade.

[kidsafe]

Eh, I think if you already had a decent Gulftown CPU, it was okay to stick with it, but Ivy Bridge I think, if it is the way we suspect, should be a reason to upgrade.

Sure, I tend to stick with a CPU/mainboard combo for much longer than that. I went from Q6600 to i7-2600K because Intel happened to release Nehalem with X58/LGA1366 first instead of the mainstream parts. So by the time P55/LGA1156 rolled around I was already anticipating Sandy Bridge. With Intel, my upgrade schedule also coincides with the Tick-Tock model. I almost always upgrade on the Tock / new micro-architecture rather than the tick (die shrink). This lends itself to teething problems and potential issues with chip/chipset errata, but you do get all the architectural advances as early as possible.

[DeltrusDisc]

E5200 to 2500K. Beat that. ;p