Intel puts Sandy Bridge parts out to pasture
Intel has officially put a wide swathe of Sandy Bridge parts on death row, along with - for some reason - a single Ivy Bridge chip.
In a Product Change Notification to its customers and partners, Intel warned that it would be ceasing bulk production on a range of Sandy Bridge desktop processors, comprising the Core i5-2310, i5-2320, i5-2400S, i5-2405S, i5-2500, i5-2500K, i5-2500S, i5-2500T, i7-2600K, i7-2600S, and i7-2700K in both boxed retail and tray original equipment manufacturer (OEM) guises.
Ending volume production means that supplies of the chips will slowly disappear, although tray processors will still be shipping to customers that have placed orders until September next year. Boxed retail units, meanwhile, will be available 'while supplies last' according to Intel's official key milestone forecast. All models will continue to be purchasable until the end of March 2013 as Intel works to deplete inventory.
According to Intel, the reason for the change is a shift in customer requirements. 'Market demand for the products listed [...] have shifted to other Intel products. The products identified in this notification will be discontinued and unavailable for additional orders after the Last Product Discontinuance Order Date.'
Those distributors who desperately need the Sandy Bridge parts are being offered tray processors in place of the boxed models, although Intel is clearly hoping that by the time it has shipped its last boxed model retailers will have made the move to selling Ivy Bridge parts exclusively.
While it's obvious to see why Intel is discontinuing production of its last-generation 32nm Sandy Bridge parts, the company has also issued a second Product Change Notification this week for the Core i5-3450 - a 22nm Ivy Bridge part released last quarter. The reason for the 3.1GHz part's short lifespan is not declared, beyond the same woolly claim that market demand has shifted to other, unidentified parts.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyWhat's the point of reducing the power consumption of the CPU if they do not support low voltage RAM module (which were supported by the previous gen) ?
Sandy bridge was always going to be discontinued and I thought it would have been sooner than now though.
My 370k runs quite happily with my 1.35v memory, set it in the bios and no issues?
I've read somewhere that it can't run @1.35V with desktop IB (but can be run @1.5V)
Just want to be sure, because some say "yes it works", others say "yes it works, but @1.5V" while the last ones say "no it doesn't".
I sent an email to Intel to have a fix and 100% safe answer. I'm building a low power ITX professionnal rig and don't want to buy 1.35V ram to have it running @ 1.5V.
I am happily running 1.25v memory with my 3570 and it is running at 1.25v and the spec'd 1600mhz and 9-9-9-25 timing.
The processor/memory controller has no issue running lower voltage memory.
Heck my laptop with an i3517u is running its memory at 1.28v (it is 1.35v memory, but for some reason the BIOS is volting it even lower, and it is running just fine also at 1600mhz and 9-9-9-27).
Glad to read that :D. Still the internal core temp issue, but bet there will be not much diff between i3-2120T and i3-3220T.
What does Microsoft has to do with this topic ? Problem ? Patent issue ?
The only issue i5-3450 has that it has the same price as i5-3470, which is 100Mhz higher, so it is not selling well. Also, if you would have bothered reading the article, you would have noticed the "All models will continue to be purchasable until the end of March 2013" line.
On topic, I am surprised it's taken so long for this announcement. I think it more to do with them having had very large stocks of them, rather than they have just stopped making them. I would be amazed to think that they have still be making them when ivy bridge has been around for so long.
Dude, can you recommend a good source for tinfoil? The cheap stuff from the grocery store makes terrible hats.
On topic, I've been wondering lately why I still see so many computer ads for boxes with SB processors. I assumed they had been discontinued a while ago and it was just the OEMs selling through existing stock. Or that Intel dumped a load of them cheap and Dell and the like snapped them up to shove them in lower-end machines.
Finaly got an answer from Intel
So it depends on the mobo .... will play on the safe side and buy 1.5V memory module.