Sandy Bridge: Extreme Performance with Value

LOL u almost got me.  Im waiting for it for my dad.  Hes got a 6 year old computer about and i think a 2500k with a nice overclock paired with a SSD would be right up his alley. 

Originally posted by DST4ME why not wait till q3 for the socket r?

hes looking for a mainstream computer, sub $1500.  He will hardly ever play computer games hes got no business waiting for 2011 imo.  socket 2011 will be something i plan buying as soon as it comes out :D


Edited by RiceEatin2000GT - 09 Jan 2011 at 1:59am

We don't know for sure what future CPU's will be offered for 1155 yet.

Edited by justin.kerr - 09 Jan 2011 at 10:19am

the GTX 595 is not out yet, and should be just a little under the power of dual 570's.. I would not suggest getting a dual card like the 595.

I have dual 295's   quad -SLI, they scale very poorly.

Originally posted by justin.kerr Also Dragoonseal should like this,  you can use the 2, 6Gbs SATA's and RAID with the 3Gbs, and it is bootable!  seen close to 900Mbs so far off the PCH..!!

Yes, mmm. Still, I want more, rawr. Hopefull X68 will improve on this even more and at the very least offer all 6Gb/s ports. Where to go from there I wonder? Maybe they should start incorporating a way for us to add a storage specific DRAM cache.

Still waiting, when will we be able to build SB systems?

We're adding them to our website today before the end of the day. We've been fine tuning our Sandy Bridge offerings to provide our customers with the highest overclocks and the best component selections.

Can't wait to play around with the configurator.

Hi

I plan to play around with the Sandy Bridge configurator but not serious about getting a SB desktop on the near future---I got a rockin' X58 set from DS about half a year ago, so I don't see a need.

Still, the SB laptops otoh I'm looking forward too; I might actually buy one this year (just so I can run WoW/SC2 during trips).  Most companies including mainstream ones already have their SB laptops out, now I just need to wait and see what DS has to offer.

i wont name anybody but i've noticed a lot of websites haves raised prices a good $300+ for a system with the same exact parts except with a SB motherboard/processor which are the same price.  

They should be up by 12:00PM (Tuesday). We're waiting to hear about some BIOS updates on a few of the Sandy Bridge boards.

Will the laptop offerings also updated on the Configurator? I have a laptop on hold because of the sandy bridge release and am anxiously waiting to play with the Configurator.

Also when will the 485M be available?

Are you guys planning on offering a wider selection of boards?

Originally posted by RiceEatin2000GT <3 this is why i love this company

I'll ping the team to see if we can add it.

UPDATE:
We won't be offering MSI products yet on the configurator, but, if you would like that model, get in touch with us and we'll special order it for you.

Edited by Alex - 11 Jan 2011 at 5:39pm

So if I understand this correctly, I should still get 8x video performance on the ASUS deluxe in crossfire using two slots?

Why aren't you guys offering the Intel Core i7 2600K CPU with the GTX 580 video card in your desktops? It doesn't seem there is a way to do that in the Configurator.