Thread: Ivy Upgrade Woot Woot

Upgraded my new i7 2600k to an Ivy Bridge i7 3770k today.

Omg I love this computer.


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Please post your experiences with that CPU. I'm interested in real world results; the reviews I've read have all been positive, with the exception of overclocking results. More than one review found that the Ivy Bridge CPU's did not overclock as well as comparable Sandy Bridge units; e.g. : Desktop Ivy Bridge. Intel Core i7-3770K and Core i5-3570K Processors Review. Page 9 - X-bit labs

Why the upgrade? The 2600k is no slacker.

I am with Viktor. I was gonna do a day one upgrade, but I am glad I didnt. I dont want temps 15-20c higher at the same clock speeds as my 2600k.

From Sandy to Ivy just doesnt seem to be that big of a jump. Do you have any before and after tests?


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Originally Posted by Rumble

Upgraded my new i7 2600k to an Ivy Bridge i7 3770k today.

Omg I love this computer.


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Most of the reviews I've read state that the difference between those two procs is not that great. Is your experience different?

I'm not interested in the Ivy Bridge CPUs. I'm more interested in the new chipsets launched with Ivy Bridge. Z77 looks pretty sweet.

Congratulations, Rumble. I can't wait to build myself an IVB machine. It's going to have to wait since I'll be in Europe for a bit this next month.

Just to the naysayers... Ivybridge has a smaller surface area to cool, so running at the same voltage and clock speeds will, of course, result in a "hotter" running chip. Clock for clock though, Ivybridge is a 7-16% improvement over Sandybridge. What does that mean? It means an ivybridge running at 4GHz should process the same workload equal to that of a Sandybridge chip running at up to 4.64 GHz (4.28GHz even you get the current "worst-case").

In heavily threaded circumstances, a 6 core Sandybridge "E" will still outperform Ivybridge. It's a different market segment and considered to be a "server" processor. If you want a true comparison there, you will have to wait for the comparable processor to come out on the new process technology. I don't personally do anything that requires more than 8 complete threads besides my work which is not done on a client grade PC.

The big attraction is for mobile users though. Between a very sizable increase in graphics performance that will only grow larger with Haswell, the raw power consumption and performance per watt is a sizable boost to improve performance in laptops without sacrificing battery life. (around 20% lower power consumption).

Beyond that, there are many on die improvements over Sandybridge that I personally am looking forward to. Like USB 3.0, gen 3 PCIe, the digital random number generator and so on.

If you have a Sandybridge-E, I wouldn't bother to swap it out for an Ivybridge. You wont notice the difference as they are both overkill for most modern games. Especially so if you overlock them. If you are choosing between the two for a machine today though, there is no real reason to go Sandybridge unless you see it discounted considerably.

It's not a Tock. This is the same as Westmere -> Sandybridge. Nahalem -> Westmere was a much smaller gain than going to SNB. The same will hold true to the next Tock.

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

Congratulations, Rumble. I can't wait to build myself an IVB machine. It's going to have to wait since I'll be in Europe for a bit this next month.

Just to the naysayers... Ivybridge has a smaller surface area to cool, so running at the same voltage and clock speeds will, of course, result in a "hotter" running chip. Clock for clock though, Ivybridge is a 7-16% improvement over Sandybridge. What does that mean? It means an ivybridge running at 4GHz should process the same workload equal to that of a Sandybridge chip running at up to 4.64 GHz (4.28GHz even you get the current "worst-case").

In heavily threaded circumstances, a 6 core Sandybridge "E" will still outperform Ivybridge. It's a different market segment and considered to be a "server" processor. If you want a true comparison there, you will have to wait for the comparable processor to come out on the new process technology. I don't personally do anything that requires more than 8 complete threads besides my work which is not done on a client grade PC.

The big attraction is for mobile users though. Between a very sizable increase in graphics performance that will only grow larger with Haswell, the raw power consumption and performance per watt is a sizable boost to improve performance in laptops without sacrificing battery life. (around 20% lower power consumption).

Beyond that, there are many on die improvements over Sandybridge that I personally am looking forward to. Like USB 3.0, gen 3 PCIe, the digital random number generator and so on.

If you have a Sandybridge-E, I wouldn't bother to swap it out for an Ivybridge. You wont notice the difference as they are both overkill for most modern games. Especially so if you overlock them. If you are choosing between the two for a machine today though, there is no real reason to go Sandybridge unless you see it discounted considerably.

It's not a Tock. This is the same as Westmere -> Sandybridge. Nahalem -> Westmere was a much smaller gain than going to SNB. The same will hold true to the next Tock.

Pfft......Fanboy.

Going to build a new rig in a couple of months......jealous of Rumble now. I'm guessing that there will be e slew of new boards coming out in the next few weeks....loaded with USB 3.0 and all the new candy. There are a few now, but there probably will be a few more coming soon.

I only upgraded because I had a Z77 board and still had a week to return my SB for a full store credit. I don't see much by way of performance yet but not oc'd yet.

I will post benchmarks. I did like that my GTX680 will run at PCI-E 3.0 now. With SB in the board it was restricted to 2.0



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This is surely the right choice for someone doing a new build. Based on the PCPER review, this is not a chip for serious overclockers, which, of course, I am. I like to get to 4.7GHz and keep things below 70C at full load. At 4.5GHz, I like to stay around 60C at full load.

Ivy Bridge gets pretty hot at those clocks, approaching the point of thermal shutdown/throttlingg. Just not much of a performance gain going from SB unless you can get the heat under control.

But again, for a new system builder... no point in SB anymore. IB is the way to go.

Got it all up and running but still no benchmarks. but i will say this. boots are amazingly fast, but I can attrib that also to a dual 256gb SSD setup in RAID0