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.

Quote Originally Posted by iTravis View Post
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.