OC3D Review i7 2600k, i5 2500k & 2300 1155 Sandy Bridge CPU's

tinytomlogan · #1 03-01-11, 03:57 AM

Finally we have the latest range of Intel CPUs available to us. Do they keep up the performance levels of previous generations?

clutchuser · #2 03-01-11, 04:04 AM

great reviews man, glad to finally see them.

delusion77 · #3 03-01-11, 04:11 AM

considering these are mainstream cpus - they are really good. I dont like how they overclock tho... just seems silly to me.....

clutchuser · #4 03-01-11, 04:18 AM

Id like to see them swinging in a good video crunch session.

Filekutter · #5 03-01-11, 04:19 AM

Wow. Just.. wow. I agree with the Turbo-only mode being a tad obnoxious though. But, otherwise quite nice looking chips and awesome vids. Thanks mucho!

MeltedDuron · #6 03-01-11, 05:17 AM

absolutely brilliant review Tom! wasn't expecting this when i woke up this morning. That 2500K definitely looks like the next must-have chip

Think I'll have to get one when I finally get sick of my xeon

sadbuttrue · #7 03-01-11, 05:53 AM

Excellent review Tom. The benefits of 32nm are outstanding, and one wonders why they didn't re-fab the i7 and i5-7xx chips last year when i3 came out. Capacity I suppose. You gotta love those numbers for power consumption and temperatures.

Bulldozer is going to have to be really good for AMD to stay in the market.

Tortuga · #8 03-01-11, 05:56 AM

^^^Really good, or reeeeally cheaper. They don't have much threshold to work with, seeing these intel prices now. It's going to get good. Thanks guys for the reviews, I know it was a ton of work. Looking forward to more.

killablade · #9 03-01-11, 06:18 AM

Great review Tom! You seem to be one of the few that took the time to test these stock and overclocked

Boca10205 · #10 03-01-11, 07:25 AM

Man imagine what the cpus that are releasing later this year will be able to do!