[DrNip]

Top Sandy Bridge works at 3.4GHz

Core i7 2600K with turbo to 3.8GHz
The top Core i7 2000 series, the one that we expect in Q1 2011 is going to work at 3.4GHz. The official name is Core i7 2600K and this quad-core CPU runs at 3.4GHz and boasts eight threads. The K stands for unlocked CPU, something that many overclockers plan to warmly welcome and for less experienced users Turbo 2 will overclock the core to 3.8GHz.

Turbo 2 can overclock a single core, two cores, or all four cores, depending on the thermals and load in any given moment. The memory of support is DDR3 1066 and 1333 and unofficially it will support even higher clocked memory. Sandy Bridge supports two-channel memory. As we said yesterday, its graphics run at 850MHz native clock and 1350MHz with the help of Turbo 2. Intel calls this Dynamic frequency.

The TDP is 95W and the CPU needs 6 series chipset and socket LGA1155 motherboard.

SOURCE:
http://www.fudzilla.com/processors/p...works-at-34ghz

[DrNip]

Only Core i7 Sandy Bridge has eight threads

Core i3 only two
The new thing about the second Core generation codenamed Sandy Bridge is that only the top branded CPUs will have feature hyperthreading.

Hypertreds don’t do that much but they do show you that you have „eight cores“ in Windows task manager and you will only see eight threads with top Core i7 CPUs.

Core i5 CPUs will be a native quad-core CPUs but they won’t support hyperthreading. This will be exclusively reserved for Core i7 2000 series parts. Core i3 native dual-cores will only support two treads which is step down from current Core i3 CPUs that feature two cores and support four threads.

The trend of lack of Turbo support in Core i3 generation will continue with new Sandy Bridge based Core i3 2000 series CPUs.

This is the branding and performance distinction that Intel wants to make clearer in 2011 as most people got confused with Core i branding, as Core i5 and Core i7 were overlapping in many performance and feature characteristics. Now the distinction should be more clear, but it looks to us that in most cases you will get less for the same money.

SOURCE:
http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/gra...-eight-threads

[DrNip]

I posted this chart somewhere else awhile back but it got lost so here it is again as some of the information has been updated.

Confirmed names and specs




Uncomfirmed names and specs



God I wonder how much they will rip us for that 8 core monster!!!

[Splave]

wow could be some epic wprime quads

[Kal-EL]

20mb L3 cache is just retarded, all those calculations instructions occurring on the cpu before reaching out for room.

[DrNip]

Good stuff here.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3871/t...ins-in-a-row/1

[Hondacity]

anand fails to talk about the little stuff...

but heck this i5-2400 is almost as good as the 980x.....sheesh 200$ is nice...a toy to play with once oc is good with the k series...

[DrNip]

Hmmmm, don't know what to think of this. Are they selling ES Sandybridge systems already or what?

http://www.liquid nitrogen overclock.../news_09.shtml

Won't let me post the link without the spaces or else it puts asterisks there like this so take the spaces out before you click the link:

http://www.**************************.com/news_09.shtml

[DrNip]

Man take a look at the results with this 2600k. Hoping I have enough saved by the time it drops. Would hate to be on the sidelines when this drops. :(

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=262104

[Kal-EL]

Theres a bunch of es chips in the wild right now, plenty. A couple euro-friends have a bunch in circulation and for sale.