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Intel's Sandy Bridge is coming.
« on: September 14, 2010, 10:01:55 am »
If you are not sure what Intel's new Sandy Bridge combined CPU & GPU chip is, you might want to take a look at this article on the BBC's website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11280200
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Re: Intel's Sandy Bridge is coming.
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2010, 10:22:32 am »
Hi absic, yes interesting but nothing new there really. Personally I can't see it making a big difference in the home market where there is a lot of gaming, photo editing etc but on the laptop and business low end markets it will be huge I am sure. The same will go for the workstations, the power won't be great enough for high end graphics manipulation and video editing. The other thing is that the chip is going to be locked so that overclocking will be practically impossible unless you pay the premium for their "Heinz57" chip. See our previous thread:
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,2371.msg12931.html#msg12931
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Re: Intel's Sandy Bridge is coming.
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2010, 10:26:57 am »
Nothing new for you or me DM but there are a lot of people who don't know about it and that's why I posted the link!  ;)

To be honest, I'm more interested in the tie in between Intel and McAfee and where that is going to lead, but info on this is pretty sparse at the moment.
« Last Edit: September 14, 2010, 10:29:36 am by absic115 »
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Re: Intel's Sandy Bridge is coming.
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2010, 10:33:37 am »
Yes I wasn't knocking the post absic just stating a fact. ;) As you say the McAfee link is interesting. It has got to infer that they intend to build more security into the chip hardware itself by my reckoning. Maybe looking more into biometrics?
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Re: Intel's Sandy Bridge is coming.
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2010, 10:40:32 am »
As you say the McAfee link is interesting. It has got to infer that they intend to build more security into the chip hardware itself by my reckoning. Maybe looking more into biometrics?
I have concerns that it may mean, if you are running Intel processors/hardware, that you are tied into just one security option. And, of course, being a bit paranoid, I'm worried about exactly what information will be gathered and reported by such hardware embedded security that the end user would have no control over.
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Re: Intel's Sandy Bridge is coming.
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2010, 11:06:35 am »
Yes, of course that is a concern. I had heard a rumour that Intel was changing it's name to Skynet so that could be worrying!  :o
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Re: Intel's Sandy Bridge is coming.
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2010, 10:09:23 am »
If you are not sure what Intel's new Sandy Bridge combined CPU & GPU chip is, you might want to take a look at this article on the BBC's website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11280200

Such a very amazing link!
Thanks you for the post.

Re: Intel's Sandy Bridge is coming.
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2011, 09:10:50 pm »
Can't wait to get my hands on this baby, paired with a gigabyte board of course.  I've seen people clock these to 5.4Ghz on air, simply amazing.
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