LGA 1156 Core i7s & Core i5s Reviews

[onethreehill]

Intel Core i5 750 Core i7 870 Review
http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...750_corei7870/

Intel Core i7-870 & i5-750
http://techgage.com/article/intel_co...he_mainstream/

Core i5-750 and Core i7-870 Processors Review
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/801

Intel Core i5 750 Processor Review
http://www.techspot.com/news/36131-i...or-review.html

Intel Core i5 And Core i7: Intel’s Mainstream Magnum Opus
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...e-i5,2410.html

Intel Lynnfield Core i5-750 & Core i7-870 Processor Review
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...or-review.html

[BulldogPO]

Finnish Core i7 870 review out:
http://mato78.com/artikkelit/prosess...p55-piirisarja

And extremely bad(like always) google translation

[caffeine]

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i...review-test/16

Kribi?????

Why didn't they use Cinebench or a test scene from a major 3d package? I can understand if its just numbers they are after... but I liked tweaktown's real world vs. synthetic a LOT more.

Still churning through the data... THANKS Onethreehill!!!

[caffeine]

HEAP's of praise on the new i5-750. Damn the lack of hyperthreading!!!

The lynnfield looks like an overclocking beast on air thus far!!!

[geo]

nvm

[tdream]

God damnit it sucks in multigpu situations.

Loving the turbo though, way of the future!

[caffeine]

whats with everyone reviewing 870/ whatever happened to 860

Wondering the same myself. I did see a few 860's in the mix and they did perform admirably. I'm too cheap to consider buying a chip over $300. I hope we see a lot more on the 860 vs. 920 in the near future.

Gulftown just isn't a big enough reason for me to go x58 at this point. So, I need more than that to justify the initial costs. No microcenter nearby...

[stasio]

Intel just announced the new Lynnfield processors and P55 Express chipset.

[Monstru]

One more to go

Intel Core i5 750, Intel Core i7860, Intel Core i7 870, Intel Core i7 975 and AMD Phenom II X4 965BE tested

Intel Core i5 and Intel Core i7 - Lynnfield in action | lab501

[tajoh111]

Ouch.

From anandtechs review, AMD needs to make imaginary 985 processor to match the i750(as it loses across the board) and price it down to 199 to have a product with parity to intels line up.

Even then, this processors going to have much much worse power consumption.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...px?i=3634&p=17

AMD is screwed either way unless they get something fast out the door.

If AMD releases a 985 at 199, they have to cut the rest of their processor down, and their goes their margins.

If they keep as is with no chip and just a price cut, they are forfeiting the 150-300 chip market because the general public does not buy AMD when it has worse performance(which Intel can get away with).

I expect the latter to happen because AMD cannot make release a 3.8 ghz processor with current yields in any significant quantities.

The graphic division won't be able to save AMD, as they need to make billions.

The only forseeable way out of this predicament is AMD turns phenom II tech into mobile tech ASAP. Bulldozers can't be finished anytime soon.

I think AMD profitability in 2009, is just as foolish a prediction as Shintai infamous, "2008 will be another year of nvidia dominance". Especially if profitability is actually supposed to come from products sales rather than asset sales.

Not a very happy situation since AMD needs money badly or signs of future income if they expect any more additional bailout money from their buyers or creditors.

[onethreehill]

Intel's Core i5-750 and Core i7-870 Processors
http://techreport.com/articles.x/17545

Intel Core i5-750, Core i7-860 and Core i7-870
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpu...d-cpu-review/1

Intel Lynnfield: Details and Architecture
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpu...architecture/1

Intel Core i5, Core i7 800 Processors and P55 Express
http://hothardware.com/articles/Inte...d-P55-Chipset/

Intel Core i5-750 Processor
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...=361&Itemid=63

Intel Core i7 870/Core i5 750/P55 Express chipset Review
http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/...re/1942_1.html

Intel Core i5 750 CPU Review
http://www.elitebastards.com/index.p...iews&Itemid=27

Intel's Lynnfield Processors
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//i...id=63&Itemid=1

[Utnorris]

I want to see the overclocking potential. To me that's the only way to compare it to the I7 920 D0 stepping, otherwise the I7 860 should perform better than a I7 920 at stock speeds and so forth. I am surprised more reviews are not looking at this aspect.

[Monstru]

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[onethreehill]

Core i5, Core i7, CrossFire, And SLI: Gaming Paradise, Redux?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ming,2403.html

[Chickenfeed]

It is interesting to see how well the 920 keeps up to the 870 regardless of the clock speed differences. There were even a few cases in the THG review that show the 920 ahead by a slight amount.

I checked the prices here in Canada and although they only have the MSI P55-G80 in stock, going with a 4gb PC12800 kit and a 860, I'd have saved barely $100. That extra $100 to me was a low price to pay for triple channel and true dual 16x pcie. Yes, I'm a lot more impressed with 860/P55 power usage and temps but you can't win them all I don't think I'll regret my choice.

[iTravis]

One more thing: SLI versus CrossFire. Oy. In certain games, ATI simply kicks butt. Its performance with one Radeon HD 4870 X2 simply walks Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 285, despite the fact that the two models we used are priced similarly. But add a second, and in some cases SLI gets close to doubling performance, while ATI not only fails to scale well, but outright loses its lead. Left 4 Dead, Grand Theft Auto, and Crysis are three examples. ATI still wins out in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but SLI buys more performance for Nvidia. ATI simply dominates Far Cry 2, no matter which way you cut it. Even still, we'd like to see ATI match the scaling Nvidia is getting from SLI. At least then our point that gamers are better off with a second graphics card versus a pricey CPU would be easier to drive home.

So according to this then SLI scaling is better than CrossFire with Core i7, Core i5?

[onethreehill]

Intel's Core i7/Core i5 Lynnfield Processors
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...d_performance/

[marten_larsson]

Intel's Core i7/Core i5 Lynnfield Processors
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...d_performance/

Their conclusion was very weird IMO. Justifying the price of X58-platform by saying the i7-870 is 3% slower than i7-975EE (in FC2) is rather strange to me, and that was with CF or SLI (wasn't specified). But in Crysis the difference was a bit bigger, 5% slower than i7-920, wow.

[onethreehill]

Intel Core i7-870 & i5-750 and P55 MBs
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=837

Intel Core i7-870 and Core i5-750 Processors
http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/dis...re-i7-870.html

[Spectrobozo]

great CPU
strong performance and "low" power consumption
to bad the multi gpu performance suffer a bit, but this is a so small part of the market... that... well, lga 1366...
to bad the ondie pcie controller affects OC to...

but... AMD situation is even worse now... who will spend like $150 in a am3 MB, and $ 200 in a am3 cpu now!?

[dartaz]

Most reviews are showing that i5 750 performs better than Phenom II 965 and consume way much less power. Moreover, 750 is cheaper than 965

[gallag]

Most review are showing that i5 750 performs better than Phenom II 965 and consume way much less power. Moreover, 750 is cheaper than 965

AMD is in a whole lot of hurt, Ph-2965 will need to drop to $150 which will reduce the price of every other cpu in there line up, Intel was smart with this i-5, I thought it was nonsense at the start but it has put AMD under a lot of pressure.

[Farinorco]

Great, I'm liking all those power consumption measurements that are being shown. It's obvious that performance wise the new Lynnfield based Core i7 is more or less at the same level than the old one (the loss of the SMT hurts the Core i5 at certain tasks), and the cost of the platform is a little lower. I have to study more carefully overclocking results (comparing clocks and voltages) to compare the overclocking potential and estimate the power consumption when overclocked (if P55 ones need more voltage, the difference in power consumption can be closer or even negated). Great product anyway.

So according to this then SLI scaling is better than CrossFire with Core i7, Core i5?

I think you're referring to the article of Tom's Hardware about gaming performance on the new platforms. If so, nope.

In that article, the ATi card they use is a HD4870 X2, while the NVIDIA one is a GTX285.

So obviously the NVIDIA scaling is better: the "one card solution", in the case of ATi, is already a CF of x2 chips, so the "two cards solution" is a quad CF of x4 chips, while the NVIDIA "one card" is only x1 chip and only the "two cards" is a SLI of x2 chips.

Everybody knows that x1 -> x2 chips scaling is much better than x2 -> x4 chips for both companies (the 2nd chip can give you much, the 3rd less, and the 4th, much less), so you can't use those results to compare (as they do in their conclusions) the scaling ability of CrossFire vs SLI as multiGPU systems.

[onethreehill]

Intel i7 870 & i5 750 CPUs
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1673

[Chad Boga]

I think you're referring to the article of Tom's Hardware about gaming performance on the new platforms. If so, nope.

In that article, the ATi card they use is a HD4870 X2, while the NVIDIA one is a GTX285.

Tom's done two reviews on multi-GPUing with i5 vs i7 and because the idiot has used different settings in each review, you get a somewhat different impression depending on which review you read.