this one to prolong life of the affected chipset also? 

GIGABYTE hascreated an easy to use utility called the GIGABYTE 6 Series SATA Check that tells you if the SATA ports that you are using are in fact the affected Intel PCH SATA 2.0 ports. It also recommends that you change your SATA devices to the white SATA 3.0 ports. The utility is a simple program that will work on any 6 series chipset based motherboard, and has 3 possible scenarios that offer different advice for users to configure their SATA devices.

Gigabyte is expected to use specific branding to highlight boards using the B3 silicon, probably using a shield motif with some text to denote the B3 stepping, and MSI has already shared its B3 logo. We contacted Asus to see if it had any similar plans, but were told it had nothing to share at this point.

2 cards only? *yawn*

    IT looks more like a piece of weapon
2 cards not enough ??

Asrock new coming Gen3 ready motherboard:

Z68 Extreme 7 Gen3 (PCIE 3.0, Gold Capasitor)
ETA : UNKNOWN $ TAG: ESTIMATE SRP: RM7XX


Z68 EXTREME 4 GEN 3(PCIE 3.0, Gold Capasitor)
ETA: END JULY $TAG: ESTIMATE SRP: RM6XX

they are just estimate bro
all final price you need to refer to local dealers

Intel Reveals 16 New Sandy Bridge CPUs & Price Cuts
Refresh of previous models with higher stock clock speeds and price cuts only for certain SB processors that are not very popular.

Major fail.    http://www.anandtech.com/show/4830/intels-...cture-exposed/6 

According to anandtech's article that Intel Ivy bridge for 1155 only get performance improve like 10% @ same price point which also includes the higher clock frequency. Majority of the 22nm process shrink benefit goes to GPU.  and still 4 cores. No 4+GHz stock clock CPU:

From the OEM perspective, Intel's TDP choices may seem arbitrary. Downwards configurable TDP allows OEMs to get a lower power configuration without forcing Intel to create a new SKU. OEMs can do this today through undervolting/underclocking of their own, but the cTDP down spec will at least give OEMs a guarantee of performance/power.
Configurable TDP obviously only applies to mobile Ivy Bridge. In particular the ultra low voltage and extreme edition parts will support cTDP. The cTDP values are listed in the table below:

You have too high expectations of IB. It is a die shrink, not a major redesign of the architecture. A 10% increase in performance from a die shrink is quite generous upgrade already. If you want more than 10% performance increase and more cores, wait for Haswell. Makes no sense for Intel to actually sell a octacore IB even if they could because that would canibalize the sales of SB-E. I am not too sure whether Intel would have IB with stock clocks over 4 GHz but I think it would be very unlikely, the more likely scenario would be slightly higher clocks than SB. The improved GPU has more benefits to Intel's ultrabooks than having a bigger improvement on their CPUs.

15-20% improvement is too optimistic. You're looking at improvement that happened from Nehalem to Sandy Bridge. Even a die shrinked Nehalem, Westmere didn't have a 15-20% improvement over Nehalem.
It is normal practice that you wouldn't want your products to compete with each other. That is why you wouldn't see a SB Core i3 21xxK as it is definitely going to have a negative impact on the sales of Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K. Now the current race is not so much about raw performance but reasonable amount of performance or similar amount of performance but with less power. The mobile market currently is way larger than the desktop market.

it looks at it is that there is no strong reason to upgrade from 2500k unless the OC headroom on the new IB is a lot better to justify it. I too was hoping Hexa core for 1155. Seems I am too optimistic

oh my god...
DX damm.. i need to secure my self a 2500k before it EOL then!
._.

The i5 3570K.. when will it be on our shore??
Guessing its gonna be a lot of improvement like its using iGPU HD4000, less power usage and OC friendly of course?

Some specs:
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i5/Inte...20i5-3570K.html

That's why LGA775 was the last true "great" platform Intel has built.
Everyone will get suckered into changing entire systems from now on...

Intel quashes rumours

Intel has moved to squash rumours that its new Ivy Bridge chips will be really late.

Last week, Digitimes claimed that Intel was going to delay mass availability of its new Ivy Bridge processors until after June. The original target date for Ivy Bridge shipments was in April. VR Zone has learned that the report was only partly true. Intel will only be delaying the release specifically of mobile Dual-Core Ivy Bridge processors, but everything is more or less on schedule.

The reason for the delay of the Dual Core  processors is due to an overstock of the previous generation chips. There were some fears in the Apple camp that Job's Mob's release plans for updated MacBook Pros and iMacs might be put on hold.  However if Apple is going to stick Quad-Core processors in their iMac, so that product line should see no added delays.

The iMac was last updated in May, 2011 and is overdue for a refresh.  Only one of those uses a dual core processor and that will probably be axed anyway.
sosej

if i have z68 gen3 mobo wif 3770k ivy will my onboard graphics run at full speed ? compare to z77 ?

It is unlikely they will fix that thing. IB are working fine under stock speed.

not sure they will fix it or not.

But the lost sales on upgrade from Sandy bridge users are REAL. I fail to see a reason why they choose to opt TIM over fluxless, the tiny cost saving isnt justified enough to cover the lost sales from worldwide sandybridge user.

Other reason may be they are trying to prevent Ivy from killing Sandybridge-E. I hopnestly think they should have come out high end socket first b4 the mainstream ones.

yeah i also got roughly 10C drop when replacing TIM and running chip topless (w/o IHS) my 3770K is now benchable at 5GHz. Although it's hotter than SB, IB saves power, faster and has extra features over the SB.

When they claimed 15w off means this apply for both idle and load states. But hey who cares about idle shit.