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
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- 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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mrmbmh - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
when will we see Sandybride on laptops?MrSpadge - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
I noticed in the roadmaps that many SNB quads don't feature HT. I find this strange - if one already chooses a Quad over a highly clocked Dual, one would probably also benefit from even more threads. HT is in there and yields "performance for free" at the same clock speed. So I'd rather see the base clock turned down one step, have the voltage adjusted downwards a bit and have HT activated, while the maximum Turbo should obviously remain similar. The resulting CPU would perform similar at lightly threaded apps and be more efficient at heavily threaded ones.Does Intel not agree? Glad to see the Duals equipped with HT, though.
MrS
ibudic1 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
1. Will we have an option to switch off SB graphics?2. Will we have an option to switch off discrete graphics?
3. What will Asus offer for USB 3 since Intel can't?
4. What is the highest official/unofficial support for memory bandwidth? (If I was to buy some additional DDR3 today, what should it be)
5. Maybe you answered this before, but is cooling backward compatible with 1156 like it is with 2011 and 1366?
M-ManLA - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
I would like to know about the new Sandy Bridge socket 2011. What are the plans? Will it have dual QPI links like the Socket 1366 cpu's? I heard about quad channel memory. Does that mean I can have eight RAM slots (16 on a dual CPU mobo)? Will they have a GPU built in like the 1155 CPUs? How many PCIe 2.0 (or maybe even PCIe 3.0) links will they have? How many SATA 6Gb ports will be supported. Will USB 3.0 and Lightpeak be supported in the chips.For Asus: What motherboard offerings will they have? Will they finally have Motherboards that have UEFI instead of BIOS? Will they finally get rid or PCI slots (I use programs like Pro Tools, where the HD cards need to have three adjacent slots for the cards). Will the motherboards have 10Gb LAN ports?
Maybe sneak in a question about Intel's Knights Corner as well.
digarda - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
Is it to be expected (as usual :-)) that major OEMs like Dell, HP and Co. will buy up all available SB processors for the first X months after the official launch on January 5, and - if so - what's the value of X likely to be?chester457 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
My ASUS laptop w/ Sandy Bridge inside will arrive from Amazon/other internet retailer on ____________ (insert date here)?awktane - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link
90% of the questions asked are obviously not avid readers of anand... Most of the answers can be found in the sandy bridge preview....http://www.anandtech.com/show/3871/the-sandy-bridg...
Luke2.0 - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link
The official specification of each chip, please. =)Both desktop and mobile ones.
Complete with Turbo Boost multiplier and/or indicator numbers.
Thank you.
Curious121345 - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link
Can we turn off the internal GPU completely during gaming and and the external grahgics card during 2D?If we turn off the interal GPU completely how much extra performance would we get from the CPU? What kind of MHz increase are we then speaking?
When will we have sandy bridge alike CPU without the GPU?
Shadowmaster625 - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link
BIOSTAR G31D-M7 LGA 775 Intel Motherboard $39 at newegg. Good reviews. For just $10 more you can get a gigabyte model with over 600 reviews and a 4 star rating. Either way, you can overclock a $50 celeron or pentium and drop in a $50 video card and get FAR better gaming performance than you'll ever get for any sandy bridge combination at $150. In fact I bet you cant even get sandy bridge plus motherboard for anything less than $200. Yet for $200 you can get a $50 celeron, a $50 socket 775 mobo, and a Radeon 5750. No way in the world does it make any sense to go with the newer Intel. My question is and remains WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD EVER BUY SANDY BRIDGE? (Besides dumbed down morons who dont know what they're buying?) Socket 775 is far from dead and will be far from dead 2 years from now even though intel is stopping production at the end of 2011. My question for Anad is has Intel always worked this way? cannot recall a time where Intel screwed over consumers so badly that their newer product line is so vastly inferior to the older product line that it is actually possible to get a totally FREE Radeon 5750 just by going with the older product line. That is just pure insanity and I want some kind of answer from Intel.