Sandy Bridge i7 & i5 Reviews

[Karam]

Run it as a standlone, just publish results, refer to old article for testing conditions.

I know it's hard to find a save game or something where the game begins to bog on turn-cycling, but this would be a good test of whether you can cater to real situations and the audience at the same time.

Also you mentioned that the game is heavily CPU bound. Another good scenario to test.

As someone else said before, socket 775 would be an excellent reference. Just like the 4850 / GTS 250 reference points I have been asking for before.

I sent some saved big games with turns taking arround 40-45s on i7920 to Marc at hardware.fr for his CPU comparative review. I think it should be updated soon with sandy bridge but I don't know if they'll add Civ 5 and its turns speed because he was undecisive for adding the game.

If a reviewer or an other SB possesor wants to test it out, just pm me for the saves, i'd be glad to help and thankful for the results
(the saves are ready for measuring)

[cegras]

I sent some saved big games with turns taking arround 40-45s on i7920 to Marc at hardware.fr for his CPU comparative review. I think it should be updated soon with sandy bridge but I don't know if they'll add Civ 5 and its turns speed because he was undecisive for adding the game.

If a reviewer or an other SB possesor wants to test it out, just pm me for the saves, i'd be glad to help and thankful for the results
(the saves are ready for measuring)

That's really excellent. Be proactive and forward them to SKY and the person with the yellow title : )