Sandy Bridge: Preliminary Clocks Revealed?

[Hornet331]

sb is a cost down of 1155 for OEMs...


remember 30h6's clarkdale review?
i dont know if the efficiency has improved now that everybody knows how to tweak the gmch and push for high qpi... at stock speeds maybe... but when overclocked... i dont think so... why do you think all top scores are still done on 1366 and 1156 is waaaaay behind?

Because there are some limitations for socket S1156, e.g power layout of the socket iteself, the obviouse dual vs tripple channle and more pci-e lanes and some other minor detail, which makes S1336 the better ocing platform for extreme ocing. But this doesn't change the fact that they have the same IPC.

If you look even closer, you see that normal 9xx dont clock much higher then the 8xx (check records on hwbot, they are all ~5,7-5,8ghz the exeptions are the 975 and the 980

god, you just love wearing your 4ss as your hat, dont you? ^^

Yes I do, the facts are there I just pointed them out. It's not my fault that they don't match with your opinion...