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Sandy Bridge - Just how sandy are they?
Frugus
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I ordered an XPS 17 (XPS 1701X) no later than Thursday and then I heard about how a newer model (XPS 1702X) was just around the corner. In fact, maybe even tomorrow.
One of the bigger changes is that it will use Sandy Bridge Processors which are claimed to be 17% faster clock for clock. At least that's what WiKi said, and of course, the internet has been known to lie. Whatever the case is I obviously don't know what I'm talking about.
My purchase was made with considerable instant savings and I'm not entirely sure they will apply once the new model is released. The question is, is it worth the wait? Is it worth the extra money? Etc...
At the very least I'll go to bed knowing a little more. Google has not provided much 'insight' if you know what I mean, but then again this looks like it's a very recent development and has only been (barely) available to the public, so I'm forced to ask around on forums.
One of the bigger changes is that it will use Sandy Bridge Processors which are claimed to be 17% faster clock for clock. At least that's what WiKi said, and of course, the internet has been known to lie. Whatever the case is I obviously don't know what I'm talking about.
My purchase was made with considerable instant savings and I'm not entirely sure they will apply once the new model is released. The question is, is it worth the wait? Is it worth the extra money? Etc...
At the very least I'll go to bed knowing a little more. Google has not provided much 'insight' if you know what I mean, but then again this looks like it's a very recent development and has only been (barely) available to the public, so I'm forced to ask around on forums.
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What kind of things are you using this laptop for? 17% may matter if you are doing a whole load of encoding/decoding, but for gaming/general use, I wouldn't worry about it.
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PSN - MicroChrist
I'm too fuckin' poor to play
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What would make it that awesome exactly?
I'll be gaming a lot, unless I happen to end up further in my programing class (going back to college thing).
Other than the fact that apparently a design flaw has stopped production, there's a lot of things that make SB a lot better than Nehalem. Better architecture, support for more cores and threads, stronger voting algorithms, etc. It's evolutionary more than revolutionary, but still the chip is pretty awesome
As far as SATA degradation, I've been testing some of these chips for [REDACTED] hours on [REDACTED] and haven't noticed any issues with SAS/SATA
PSN - MicroChrist
I'm too fuckin' poor to play
WordsWFriends - zeewoot
Get the one that saves you the most money. The extra "bump" in performance isn't worth the extra money.
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That has to be a hell of a way to wake up. "Wait we shipped defects on our boards and we didn't even do anything?
Oh well, at least I can bump up to a gtx 560 once the new boards are ready in March.
So they pulled it all off market. Durn it, just sell me the "bad" motherboard for 20 bucks of so I can get folding on a 2600!
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Businesses don't like buying hardware with a definite failure rate. 3% of system hard drives losing all performance is going to fuck with failure rates of a lot of RAID systems.
I wouldn't worry about it then. The current chip will be more than enough for any college level programming, and I doubt it will be bottle-necking your graphics card when it comes to gaming.