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Sandy Bridge Reviews

Yeah I got to admit that I am a bit underwhelmed compared to what will soon be far cheaper cpu's. The old tech will just be even better value for money. having said that I will still pick up a SB as an upgrade to my q6600 but I think I may wait for the second revision which will probably come around june i'm guessing. Perfect time for just after my exams finish and I have 4 months off from uni.

Having said this, I don't think anyone really expected to see much improvements in games because the games simply don't need the power.

I'm pretty dissapointed there is no version with gpu's because these cpu's would probably overclock like mad if you could ajust the FSB like we used to but the GPU being onboard prevents that i'm guessing.

I think Intel know these arn't really that incredible and thats why they arn't coming out at £500 a piece.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The 65W Core i5-2500S would probably be a better choice for a mini-ITX motherboard IMHO.
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I've just read that H67 is NOT OVERCLOCKABLE. You get nothing in terms of oc'ing, it's stock and stock only, even on the 2600K.

So I really think it will be a 2600 now. The S series depends on pricing really, i'm not paying loads to knock 30W off that my H7O probably won't struggle with anyway.
 
Tute said:
I've just read that H67 is NOT OVERCLOCKABLE. You get nothing in terms of oc'ing, it's stock and stock only, even on the 2600K.

So I really think it will be a 2600 now. The S series depends on pricing really, i'm not paying loads to knock 30W off that my H7O probably won't struggle with anyway.
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You missed the Z68 chipset then! You supposedly can overclock with this chipset and also use the IGP too.

Anyway,the new Core i5 processors only have slightly lower power consumption than the older Core i5 760:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...-i5-2600k-i5-2500k-and-core-i3-2100-tested/21

Most of the mini ITX motherboards only have a 65W to 95W CPU limit so probably a Core i5 2400 would do the job with a mild overclock.
 
so, only 10% faster (but not in games) for buying a new board?! underwhelmed isnt the word. i think cpu's have hit a wall, moore's law is dead. should be way beyond 4ghz by now.
 
hedgey said:
so, only 10% faster (but not in games) for buying a new board?! underwhelmed isnt the word. i think cpu's have hit a wall, moore's law is dead. should be way beyond 4ghz by now.
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Moores law isnt dead (it only talks of transistors after all and those still do roughly double every 18 months). Its single threading performance thats kinda dead. At least under x86.
 
Not that impressed with these chips - don't get me wrong look nice for benchmarking and E-peen wavers, but in real terms not that much of an advance. If you are mostly gaming then I don't see any point of upgrading whatsoever.
 
Seems a pretty decent improvement on the existing i5's. I don't think an upgrade to the next generation is ever really sensible as I don't remember a massive leap in technology over the course of a couple of years. If nothing else it wouldn't make much financial sense, big companies love to drip feed out increases in performance these days. Why sell one large leap in performance when you can sell two or three smaller ones? ;)

Got to love the washing powder adverts, how much whiter can whites get?!
 
if you got a current Core i5/i7 pointless upgrading tbh, anyone from a core 2 duo/Q6600 era or anyone that skipped the 1st generation Core i5/i7 then definatly Sandybridge is the best choice right now.

If you got a Core i5/i7/6 core Phenom system then wait till the summer too see what AMD come out with or wait till this fall for Intels even more highend Sandybridge to arrive.
 
HighlandeR said:
if you got a current Core i5/i7 pointless upgrading tbh, anyone from a core 2 duo/Q6600 era or anyone that skipped the 1st generation Core i5/i7 then definatly Sandybridge is the best choice right now.

If you got a Core i5/i7/6 core Phenom system then wait till the summer too see what AMD come out with or wait till this fall for Intels even more highend Sandybridge to arrive.
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I have Q6600 and I think even people with core 2 quad don't really need to upgrade to sandybridge as those core 2 quads are powerful enough.
 
WingZero30 said:
I have Q6600 and I think even people with core 2 quad don't really need to upgrade to sandybridge as those core 2 quads are powerful enough.
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Which is the crux of the problem.

When that Q6600 landed at £130 it was way more bang for its buck than anyone expected.

EDIT: Though if i have understood reviews correctly you can set your overclock speed to be the turbo so when it isn't needed your clock drops back. If that's the case then its MUCH better than having a chip run over volted and overclocked permanently while you are just surfing the web and stuff.
 
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Or you are going to get lag spikes when it decides it doesn't need the turbo power when in the loading screen of a game or what ever and then when the game starts it has to overclock its eslf again. I don't know how instant the transaction is but one would presume the pc has to require the overclock before it overclocks it self which means there is at least a microsecond of lag, which can be annoyingly noticeable at times.
 
be careful with those prices.... last time at the i7 920 launch loads of us got 2 week bans for saying how much they cost elsewhere.... even though we didnt mention where
 
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