Intel Ivy Bridge Pricing Leaked to the Web

Wow, interesting price let's hope it is true. What is a i7-3770K @ 330 dollars going to do to the i7-3930K pricing at almost $600...

I am thinking the 3770K will be come the 2600K of the Ivy Bridge line.

3770s very worth for the buck

Will these chips be compatible with Sandy Bridge 1155 as a drop in replacement?

"The performance gained from Sandy Bridge over X58 was great, so imagine SB to Ivy. What I think is unworthy is buying a (3470t) Dual Core Desktop processor in 2012 ."

This is what I was hoping to see. Like the 2500K, the 3570K seems to be the "value" sweet spot. You get an unlocked multiplier for only 40 bucks more than the lowest-end model. In the other direction, it costs a third less than the 3770K and all you give up is hyperthreading and maybe some overclockability.

ThunderBird:

Will these chips be compatible with Sandy Bridge 1155 as a drop in replacement?

http://hothardware.com/News/Asus-Announces-First-Batch-of-Ivy-Bridge-Boards/

"Yes, all chipsets, Z68,P67, H67, and just to clear up a confusion most people have , your board doesn't have to feature PCIE 3.0, but Ivy Bridge is PCIE 3.0 Compliant , so buying one of those GEN 3 boards is a good investment if you haven't done so, other then that, its good to go."

Well I see what is going on now and didn't realize this before. Ivy Bridge will be socket 1155 and released Q1/Q2 2012 and priced lower and Ivy Bridge-E will be socket 2011 and Q4 2012. At least if the rumors hold true and priced higher similar to the Sandy Bridge-E series.

I'm looking forward to the onslaught of Ivy Bridge reviews and comparison reviews of Ivy vs. Sandy :)

I look at new Intel Ivy Bridge CPU. It look good and very low power (less 80 watts in power) I am glad that Int make a right move to buld a energy saving desktop processor like Ivy Bridge. And I am wonder about next CPU like Ivy Bridge Extreme. We will find out later.

OptimusPrimeTime:

What I think is unworthy is buying a (3470t) Dual Core Desktop processor in 2012 ."

I don't think it's unworthy; seeing as how there are games out there that can benefit from a dual core processor; especially older games. I was one of the few people not to buy Sandy Bridge and stick to his old 42mm Core i7 CPU; mainly because I predicted that Ivy Bridge with it's 22nm die shrink would be both fast and insanely overclockable. I'm going to hold off until I see results but Ivy Bridge does sound impressive.

I can't imagine people dropping their 32mm CPU's for this (32mm CPU's are already hella powerful.) but I can imagine that those who haven't plopped down the money for Sandy Bridge will be really happy indeed.

If it's just buying a CPU and popping it into the board I have, then maybe I'll buy up into it. But as Taylor says, it's (i7-2600K) damn fast as it is right now.

My i7-870 is still quite fast too.

Intel did well to keep the prices just about the same as what SB is going for right now. A 77W overclockable quad-core that's at least as fast as the 2600k is just money.

That is good to hear but I am in the camp of CPU's are plenty fast enough today. I want a SSD, as that is the biggest bottleneck imo.

Makes me wonder if I should just wait 3-4 months to build my new desktop or not.  Yes I know something better is always around the corner, but that's not a long time to wait.   As long as Ivy Bridge isn't a disappointment like Sandy Bridge-E, then I'll be happy

I'd wait it out with new tech on the horzion, you've got a new line of processors coming out and PCIE 3.0 cards coming out as well, but then again that's the game computer builders and enthusiasts always face, the dilemma that what they spend right now could afford something new and better in just a couple months :/

Can't wait to see what Intel comes out with! I've been wanting to jump off the AMD cart for processors for a while but pricing has held me back, Ivy Bridge seems much more affordable. I'll just have to wait and see

Ivy bridge reminds me of the iphone 4s its slightly faster shinier cooler. but its not the iphone 5. intel keeps hinting that this is like a present not all of christmas, i am excited to see if intel will release something better next year than this new ivy bridge.

with prices like that I might have to build my first intel machine since the P3's