Intel Officially Lifts the Veil On Ivy Bridge 200
New submitter zackmerles writes "Tom's Hardware takes the newly-released, top-of-the-line Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K for a spin. All Core i7 Ivy Bridge CPUs come with Intel HD Graphics 4000, which despite the DirectX 11 support, only provides a modest boost to the Sandy Bridge Intel HD Graphics 3000. However, the new architecture tops the charts for low power consumption, which should make the Ivy Bridge mobile offerings more desirable. In CPU performance, the new Ivy Bridge Core i7 is only marginally better than last generation's Core i7-2700K. Essentially, Ivy Bridge is not the fantastic follow-up to Sandy Bridge that many enthusiasts had hoped for, but an incremental improvement. In the end, those desktop users who decided to skip Sandy Bridge to hold out for Ivy Bridge, probably shouldn't have. On the other hand, since Intel priced the new Core i7-3770K and Core i5-3570K the same as their Sandy Bridge counterparts, there is no reason to purchase the previous generation chips."
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Re:Let me get this straight... (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds a little like Microsoft's method.
Win 95 - Tock
Win 98 - Tick
Win Me - Sproing
Win 2000 - Tock
Win XP - Tock
XP SP1 - Tick
XP SP2 - Tock
XP SP3 - Tick
Vista - Tock sprooooing
Win 7 - Tick
Win 8 - Tock (maybe)
Re:Let me get this straight... (Score:5, Funny)
I know this is how intel defines it, but that's always seemed odd to me. Tick comes before tock. A new architecture comes before the refinement of that architecture. Seems like the tick should be the new architecture. and the tock should be the refinement.
It should come as no surprise given that Intel also got the order of bytes in a word backwards.