Its looking like ivb are not going to be a massive leap anyway. Pci3.0 is the main plus point imho. 22nm tech is just to save power imho for the mobile chips. There is talk on other forums that i5k is still the cpu for clocking.

 

If I needed a dedicated PC then I'd build it myself.
I've done it before for friends and family, and also built the servers my previous company used, plus a few pc's for a couple of clients we did some consulting for. It's not as daunting as it seems, plus I do like tinkering and being able to specify exactly the components you want is always nice.

 

I certainly wouldn't adopt the new standard in it's earliest form, I think with the Corsair H60 cooler I can overclock the i7 2700K to around 4.6Mhz, no doubt it I went down the full water cooled route then a lot more could be found but I am quite happy with what the H60 should allow.

In the past I have built my own PC's after having a right botch job from a local PC builder so I thought to myself 'it can't be that hard' and to be honest it really isn't rocket science, provided you are methodical and take your time it's quite easy.

The reason I went for the barebones system is that I could add my own components and end up with a better system than you can buy off the shelf at PC World etc, the fun comes in altering the BIOS settings to maximise the performance whilst maintaining reliability.

 

5 gig seems to be the sweet spot for the sb i5k on water - and about 4.5 on air as you say. Some people push a tad more but dont see much gains in the real world. The FSX boys are the ones who are really hoping the ivb will clock beyond 5gigs as they need the CPU power not the GFX power. I have been watching the FSX forums and they are desperatly hoping they can run full settings with ivb and 680 / 690 gtx. I dont think its quite there yet myself though and will require a good couple of years yet before a stock CPU will be able to run FSX on max.

 

Reviews so far for IB say struggles with heat quite badly

 

Well the PC is up and running, just carrying out the gazillion Windows 7 updates , but apart from that all is going well.

With the basic overclocking functions in the bios I have managed a Windows 7 rating of 7.8 so far and that was with the CPU overclocked to 4.2Mhz and there should be a lot more to come with some further OC'ing and tweaking.

 

Looking good performance index,updates are good,but i'm not updating daily and mainly on my work PC(in studio) where is installed W7 i'm absolutely running without the updates


Jura

 

Godo work mate.

Dont forget it only goes up to 7.9

 

I just tend to manually check for updates about once a week and carry them out all at once, rather than setting it to automatic and then the bloody thing wants to reset when you are in the middle of something.

Thanks, it surprises me that the performance index hasn't been updated since the release of Windows 7 as surely now it must be a little out of date.