Ivy Bridge delay rumors exaggerated, i5-3570K sample benched early

Seems like a very nice improvement.

Digitimes strikes again

Ticks are never that much of an improvement.

Al least intel are (finally) improving their graphical capability's. Makes work laptops TF2 worthy

+1 burty, I've tried playing TF2 on my notebook's SB IGP and it is 'decent' if nothing else

that is very nice and all but with PC gaming in the pooh bin it's all kind of yaaaawwwwnnnnn.

darn shame really.

lol? Are Guests always this far from the truth?

pretty much LOL

And here I was hoping that even for a Tick, that the HD4000 would have a little more oomph than what these initial benchmarks show, oh silly me. However, any improvement is a welcome one, since I'm holding off on buying a new laptop until everyone comes out with their 2nd-3rd quarter ivy bridge equipped ultrabooks. I also know that how these processors bench, especially mobile versions may and often will be different when these chips are finally released into the wild. Here's to continued anticipation~

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'm also waiting to see if AMD's Trinity can do anything special. If neither can, I may end up just going the discrete GPU route.

Anybody knows if theres a IDF conference video for this?

Ticks bring huge improvements in power consumption reduction, generate less heat, are smaller and they revise an existing architecture, so there's a lot of improvement. In my oppinion, ticks are the one worth buying.