Sandy Bridge i7 & i5 Reviews

**Wumpus** · 01-03-2011, 01:55 PM

hopefully the Z68 chipset will sort out all of you IGP users who want to overclock

sandy bridge looks good.....cant wait for the enthusiast stuff!

**cobra_kai** · 01-03-2011, 02:02 PM

Desktop performance is about in line with what I was expecting, perhaps a bit better, but the mobile parts look really good. Too bad all I do on my personal laptop is surf the web.

**justin.kerr** · 01-03-2011, 02:03 PM

maybe I missed it, but what about SATA performance???????

**Sup3rman** · 01-03-2011, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by clayton

i'm assuming you can't overclock on the h67 chipset. Such a shame.

+1

**cegras** · 01-03-2011, 02:53 PM

With the way these chips look, I really don't think I need to OC anymore. Intel is making this a lot like plug and play, and having the CPU basically scale itself according to demand is pretty good.

That being said, I'm waiting for Bulldozer and how it will address single vs multithreaded performance.

However, personally, things are looking especially grim for AMD now. I'm finally feeling the age of my CPU, it's simply not holding up in new games like Civ 5. I want to upgrade now, and the chips are appropriately priced. While I think AMD will come out with something very good, at this point in time I just don't have that much faith in them to wait nearly 6 more months (if they keep that promise at all).

So unless AMD peeps something soon, I might grab Sandy Bridge on its first sale soon.

Also, incredible lol's at nvidia's terrible CUDA encoding were had @ anandtech.

**Mech0z** · 01-03-2011, 03:05 PM

Where is the mobile duelcore reviews :s

**FlanK3r** · 01-03-2011, 03:06 PM

HWCANUCKS: did u tested x4 975 and x4 840 too?

I see it in graphs

**cegras** · 01-03-2011, 03:16 PM

SKY, any chance of doing some tests with Civ 5? We've talked about this before, and I think it would be a perfect way to test Civ 5's scaling.

There's a notable problem with turn cycling with a large number of AI's in the middle to late game, and I want to see if improving the CPU helps.

**Boogerlad** · 01-03-2011, 03:29 PM

Are there any reviews with clock for clock comparisons, comparing sandy bridge, lynnfield, bloomfield, and equivalent amd chips? Comparing all these cpus at different clock speeds is useless for me, because if you assume that you're running a lynnfield at 4ghz, how much benefit would a sandy bridge at the same clock be on average?

**RaZz!** · 01-03-2011, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by SKYMTL

Finally: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...rs-review.html

i really miss a socket 775 cpu there, e.g. a core2quad

**trn** · 01-03-2011, 03:51 PM

Ok... so now that we've seen the official reviews (and the chips have been in the hands of others and for sale in Malaysia for weeks) when are they going to be sold?

**BababooeyHTJ** · 01-03-2011, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by cegras

SKY, any chance of doing some tests with Civ 5? We've talked about this before, and I think it would be a perfect way to test Civ 5's scaling.

There's a notable problem with turn cycling with a large number of AI's in the middle to late game, and I want to see if improving the CPU helps.

Thats actually a really good idea.

**[XC] hipno650** · 01-03-2011, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by trn

Ok... so now that we've seen the official reviews (and the chips have been in the hands of others and for sale in Malaysia for weeks) when are they going to be sold?

This is what I was wondering as well... Good reviews but I wanna buy one....

Also I would love to see more user overclock results on real mobo's (not Intel trash) because if 5GHZ seems to be the norm on 2600K after these new BIOS's come out then it just might be worth thinking of upgrading....

**cegras** · 01-03-2011, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by cegras

SKY, any chance of doing some tests with Civ 5? We've talked about this before, and I think it would be a perfect way to test Civ 5's scaling.

There's a notable problem with turn cycling with a large number of AI's in the middle to late game, and I want to see if improving the CPU helps.

Originally Posted by BababooeyHTJ

Thats actually a really good idea.

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.

**ghost_recon88** · 01-03-2011, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by clayton

I'm assuming you can't overclock on the H67 chipset. Such a shame.

Why not?

**Russian** · 01-03-2011, 04:36 PM

For anyone interested... we hit 4.7GHz...

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...rom-intel.aspx

Since the OP refuses to post our reviews in his threads.

**miahallen** · 01-03-2011, 04:51 PM

Hey guys, I'd really like to tailor part 2 of my review to answer as many questions as possible. If you'd be so kind as to chime in with a vote in my poll, it would be most appreciated

http://www.techreaction.net/forums/s...ead.php?t=4706

**Karam** · 01-03-2011, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by cegras

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** · 01-03-2011, 04:52 PM

Civ 5.

**Boogerlad** · 01-03-2011, 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by miahallen

Hey guys, I'd really like to tailor part 2 of my review to answer as many questions as possible. If you'd be so kind as to chime in with a vote in my poll, it would be most appreciated

http://www.techreaction.net/forums/s...ead.php?t=4706

not willing to sign up yet, but option one, clock for clock vs bloomfield!

**miahallen** · 01-03-2011, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by Boogerlad

not willing to sign up yet...

NP....I'll monitor here as well

**clayton** · 01-03-2011, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by ghost_recon88

Why not?

Intel became evil.

**jogshy** · 01-03-2011, 05:24 PM

Pffff... no SB without GPU yet? Without GPU should OC much better.
And I was actually waiting a cheap SB quad core(8 HT) by 90$ omg...

**aussie-revhead** · 01-03-2011, 05:30 PM

SB without IGP = Xeon, cant wait for that one.

**danielkza** · 01-03-2011, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by jogshy

Pffff... no SB without GPU yet? Without GPU should OC much better.
And I was actually waiting a cheap SB quad core(8 HT) by 90$ omg...

Don't see why, the GPU is completely power-gated when disabled.

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