Sandy Bridge i7 & i5 Reviews

[koc]

but higher bus speed makes the cpu faster ? right ?
also if i OC via mutiplier only , i need higher Vcore than normal ?

[RPGWiZaRD]

but higher bus speed makes the cpu faster ? right ?
also if i OC via mutiplier only , i need higher Vcore than normal ?

Yea usually higher bus speed results in better efficiency per clock but it depends on the architecture and how much the gain really is in that case. On Core 2 it gave a rather huge increase, Core i7 slightly less, yet noticable. Regarding vcore though that's not the case, it's rather the opposite, the vcore requirement will be as low as possible as there's one less factor to take into account but on Core i7 it's mostly when getting close or entering the realm of BCLK 200+ that the bclk started to up the vcore requirements a bit.

[koc]

thank you guys for replies

I think i want to see more (X58 vs Sandy B) specially in games before i buy SB system .