Early Ivy Bridge Sample Tested

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As usual from die-shrink "tock" at this point u can add the typical 4 ~ 10% IPC increase (around 15% in some special cases) but what is attractive is its performance/power consumption/overclocking. I pray it'll do like 5.5GHz @ 1.35v on an average sample and consume quite a bit less power than Sandy would do at like 5GHz 1.4v. This is just speculation but one can always hope right.

I like throwing my overclock speculation pre-launch so here's mine:

Worst sample: 5.3GHz @ ~1.35v
Average sample: 5.5GHz @ ~1.35v
Best sample: 5.7GHz @ 1.36~1.37v
i5-3750K / i7-3770K on good aircooling

For 24/7 I probably wouldn't use more volts than that on 22nm (with air/water at least).