Ask Your 2nd Gen Intel Core Processor Questions Here, Update: Now with Answers!
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 5, 2011 1:01 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Sandy Bridge
- Asus
ASUS and Intel are putting together a webcast that they've invited me to attend. The topic of discussion? Sandy Bridge. The webcast will air after Intel's official announcement of Sandy Bridge at 9AM PST on January 5, 2011 at CES.
The discussion will be a conversation between myself, Gary Key (former AT Motherboard Editor, current ASUS Technical Marketing Manager), and Michael Lavacot, an Intel Consumer Field Application Engineer.
If you have any questions you'd like to see me answer on air or that you'd like me to grill ASUS and Intel on, leave them in the comments to this post and I'll do my best to get them addressed.
Of course we will also have our full review of Sandy Bridge around the same time.
Update: Intel posted some of the videos from this webcast on its YouTube channel. I tried to answer as many of the big questions you guys asked as I could in the video or in our Sandy Bridge review.
I'll add links here for more videos as they get posted:
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marc1000 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
1. to intel: when we use a discrete card, what happens to the on-die GPU? will it turn completely off?2. to asus: in wich form-factors we will have boards on launch? ATX only? mATX? uATX?
thanks,
Mr Perfect - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
Not to come across as a grammar Nazi, but mATX and uATX are both shorthand for Micro ATX. You're referring to the tinny 170mmx170mm boards, right? They're called Mini ITX, or mITX for short.Hopefully Asus has some mITX boards at launch, because that's what I'm building. :)
marc1000 - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link
yeah, mITX, my mistake. up to now I've only seen full ATX boards, and I prefer the small ones. Micro ATX is the best of all.richough3 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
Will the ASUS motherboards ever incorporate an onboard slot for an SSD or USB flash drive to run the Express Gate software? The reason I would use Express Gate as opposed to booting a full OS off the hard drive is that I don't want everything else such as the hard drive and primary video card to power up, I just want a quick booting OS that runs on integrated video @ 1280 x 1024 minimum, so you can do basic tasks with minimal power consumption.mindless1 - Sunday, January 9, 2011 - link
Please explain why you feel that if you had an onboard slot for SSD or a USB flash socket onboard, that would magically keep your hard drive or primary video card from powering up when the PSU turns on? At present that tech does not exist in contemporary PC designs, adding a slot makes no difference, it would be the same as plugging a USB thumbdrive into the back of the board, but if you realy want it all self contained you could solder a 0.1" spaced pin header socket to the flash drive's USB contacts and plug that directly into a motherboard header.Presently what meets your desires the best is to own a notebook with a low power profile and a KVM to use your other kbd, mouse and monitor. This option has other virtues since a notebook is handy for mobile computing too, you can leverage tech already available and meet the goal.
play2learn - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
Please consider a on/off button on the ouside of the laptops... Do I need to explain why?ibudic1 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
yes, why?Michael REMY - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
hi!i'm working into 3d business and i care of render operations every days.
Today, the more powerful desktop intel cpu is the core i7-980x.
i'd like to know when a extreme or 6-core or 8-core cpu in sandy bridge will be release.
thanks for answer.
Best regards
n0b0dykn0ws - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
Ask if they have fixed the 23.97 issue that Clarkdales suffer.The only way I will buy Sandy Bridge is if this issue has been resolved.
n0b0dyk n0ws
Catalina588 - Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - link
No, it's not fixed until Ivy Bridge. Read Anand's review.