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Sandy bridge benchmarks
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it means nothing without scores, temps, voltages. you can overclock most chips to ridiculous levels with the right equipment. only proper benchmarking will test how realistic the chip is for your average jo bloggs.
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Well there is testing of an i5 sample here (which has the option to turn hyperthreading on for evaluation purposes).
I will be waiting for this to be released tbh; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)
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Misleading thread title is misleading. Kinda a no brainer googling said CPU.
Anyways, I don't need benchmarks
Anyways, I don't need benchmarks
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would wait patiently when sandybridge is out and get the old processors with half the price 
would wait patiently when sandybridge is out and get the old processors with half the price
That could be a little optimistic. No doubt there will be some bargains to be had though.
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From what I have been reading - not quite.
The higher-end sandy bridge LGA 1155 chips will be true quad cores. i5 for no hyperthreading and i7 for hyperthreading - as usual. Also - the i7s will have 8MB L3 cache while the i5s will have 6MB. Also, at launce there should only be one i5 that isn't a true quad core - the Core i5-2390T - which is a hyperthreaded dual core with a TDP of only 35W.
Since the i5s and i7s will be clock-for-clock faster than existing i5s and i7s and higher stock clockspeeds - then these should beat the current generation parts in terms of CPU performance, including the LGA 1366 quads. However, the X58 boards and chips will still be sought after by some as this "mainstream" platform only supports dual channel memory and PCIe v2 x8x8 CF/SLI - features which X58/i7 handily beats.
Sounds pretty reasonable, what really pushes an i7 at the minute, apart from maybe FAH, or nutters that run p95/LinX/IBT too muchetc, i know that no game stresses an i7 at the minute, cause theyre mostly badly coded console ports.
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You are quite right - an i7 (or i5 for that matter) should be plenty for playing modern PC games for the next few years. In my mind, the main benefit of these new chips is that because they are faster - they should last for longer before an upgrade is required. Also, i'm looking forward to the reviews when it arrives and see how it does with the overclocking - the early info seems to suggest that these things clock really well (so long as you pay up for the K series).
As for a game that can tax an i7 - i think one of the few is Civ 5, that games just eats up CPU (and GPU) power.
As for a game that can tax an i7 - i think one of the few is Civ 5, that games just eats up CPU (and GPU) power.
Exactly Rroff, i came from a q9550 clocked at 3.8ghz on a p5q deluxe, on very low voltage, (1.216) my gpu at the time was a gtx 280 clocked at 714mhz, only went i7 as i wanted sli and xfire support on the same board, ive had sli on it twice so far, gtx 275's and now gtx 470's, even with a single card i never struggled much.
