Intel's Corei7 Ivy-Bridge-E Launches From September 4th Onwards.
As per the latest leak, Intel's HEDT Processors Core-i7 Ivy Bridge-E will be available to specific markets in the world from 4th september onwards. The fully release of Ivy Bridge-E to entire market will be no later than September 11th.
Ivy bridge-E will be replacing Sandy Bridge-E.This new flagship uses same socket & chipset i.e LGA2011 & X79 respectively.However, the latest patch to the current BIOS has been added to support the Ivy Bridge-E chipsets, so if you're planning to upgrade your system to IVB-E, you have to flash the latest BIOS which is available from the retail manufacturer's website.
In the Ivy Bridge-E branch, three new flagships have been proposed : Core i7-4960X Extreme Edition, Core i7- 4930K & Core i7-4820K.All three of Ivy bridge-E are based on 22nm, built into LGA2011 package with BClk multipliers.
- Intel Ivy Bridge-E Core i7-4960X Extreme is a Hexa-core processor with 3.60 GHz clock-speed which can be increased upto 4.00 GHz using Turbo boost, 15MB L3 Cache.
- Intel Ivy Bridge-E Core i7-4930K is another Hexa-core processor with 3.40 GHz clock-speed, can be increased to 3.90 GHz using Turbo boost, 12MB L3 Cache.
- Intel Ivy Bridge-E Core i7-4820K is Quad-core processor with 3.70 GHz clock,which can be reached upto 3.90 GHz using Turbo boost, 10MB L3 Cache.
As per official information, a simple BIOS update to X79 based chipset can support new Intel Ivy bridge-E, there are fair chance that new X79 chipset's manufacturers might add SATA 6b/s ports & USB 3.0
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