Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
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?
We're talking about platforms here, whatever mobo you choose will behave very similar. Core i7 9xx means x58, triple channel, QPI, etc. This means ultra high PC for what it does, and don't even talk about OC. x58 is a failure as a desktop platform. Lynnfield just confirms it, same perfomance (except in bandwidth synchtetic test because of dual channel), way lower PC, lower cost, way higher turbo mode...

At the core level, both CPUs are the same except maybe ultra minor tweaks on the s1156 side.