Sandy Bridge i7 & i5 Reviews

[Hornet331]

How many cores can TF2 utilize ? If you limit boinc to 4 cores and TF2 uses up to 2 cores then you shouldn't see much of a drop off.

TF with MT uses 2.x threads, but you allways notice a drop since the BONIC projects are heavy on the cache. It was the same with every cpu i owned till now (C2D, C2Q, and even on X4). You notice it less in gpu bound games like crysis, but you still have a considerable fps drop.

That SB has an additional concern with the TDP limit isn't exactly helping this either.