LGA 1156 Core i7s & Core i5s Reviews

[Hornet331]

i am not saying x58 is a bad chipset while handling cpu x58 is bad at gpu.

so what you said is also a good point for my theory.

when you lower the resolution and lower the load on gpu 920 starts to show its performance because when you lower the load on gpu load on x58 to handle gpu gets lower or lets say load on x58 to handle pci-ex 16x .

then you would also see problems in 32x configuration, since it puts a lot more stress on the pci-e controller to handle 32 lanes instead of 16.

If the pci-e controller would be at its limit, you would see consistant bad results in all games, but you dont.
Thers also another point why Ci7 sometimes losses in games to C2 or PII, its 2nd lvl cache. Games that love huge 2nd lvl cache have the best prformance on C2 followed by PII and i7 (6mb > 2mb >1mb). You could agruue that i7 has more total cache, but 3rd lvl cache is never as fast 2nd lvl or offers the same bandwidth.

And? The i7 9xx platform sucks ass PC-wise, just like day one. If you're trying to be pedantic, the only Nehalem processors that were in the market back in the day when the claim was done were the 9xx series.

yes and thats exactly my point, nehalem as cpu itself dont consumes much, but people always transfered platform energy consumption to cpu consumption. Even at the beginin you easly could show this when you pited the DX58SO against the rampage 2 (~15W less).

Or do you want to me to belive that a S1156 CPU is a complet different CPU then a S1336 one?