New Sandybridge processors

[Firehorse]

According to Overclockers they're already in stock, although they don't seem to be anywhere else.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-359-IN

[N!ck]

Yeah, OcUK are breaking their NDA (if they signed one) and are selling them early.

[Jam]

1155 Motherboard's too. Same price for a 2.8GHz i5, so the wait payed off.

[N!ck]

1155 Motherboard's too. Same price for a 2.8GHz i5, so the wait payed off.

Most places are selling those. The NDA on them ended a few days ago.

[Firehorse]

Think it's worth buying my new system now?

I have £1000 in the bank and the system I put together adds up to £900 or so without graphcis card or screen.

[Jam]

Most places are selling those. The NDA on them ended a few days ago.

They seem to have a wider range.

[Stephen!]

They are up pretty much everywhere now.

[Firehorse]

Well this quote from the OC forums explains why they were out so early.


Hi there


Right guys, the wait is over, my finger has accidently slipped onto the set live button and when I tried to hide them, my PO software died and IT have gone home, so guess they gotta stay live.

:)

[Firehorse]

Just finished setting up my system (Apart from the hard drives and OS) and I have to say it feels incredibly fast even after only loading the bios screen. And when checking the stats of the i7 2600K in the Bios i'm actually getting over 3500MHz even though it's a 3.4GHz processor!

[Firehorse]

This processor is AMAZING! Even when i'm running stuff that would take my old 2.33ghz dual core processor up to 90% capacity, this one hasn't even gone above 5%! I'm installing a game now and the needle is sitting effortlessly at 1% useage :O

[Recursion]

And when checking the stats of the i7 2600K in the Bios i'm actually getting over 3500MHz even though it's a 3.4GHz processor!

That's what Turbo Mode is doing.