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

Great review, answered the question about performance. This is impressive work from Intel, sort of raises a question of how good the enthusiast level stuff may be
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I was thinking of getting a new sound card along with a Z-5500 speakerset for my birthday (march 1), but since SB performs soo dang good I think I might just have to save up a little longer and get myself an i7-2600k, a decent p67 mobo, some sweet ddr3 memory and of course a D-14
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It seems like the sandy bridge CPU's are targeted at bench mark enthusiasts. I don't like the turbo feature at all for overclocking. if you overclock it should stay where you put it to begin with.

So overall I'm not that impressed yet
 
I'm still scratching my head here tbh Intel have released a new range of upgraded CPU's so soon after the i3's - i'7's and AMD will be also, despite only having released the bloody 1055 1090T last year !?!

Will people be able to trade in there i3's etc..will they heck.

Any ideas Tom?

Very exciting year for PC gamers
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I'm probably just being blind but when are these available to buy?

9th of january (most likely)

Not a clue about how much are going to be in stock though.

Anyone found some reviews on 1155 mobo's?

Only found two (MSI GD65 and Asus P8P67.)

Reviewers are probably working very hard on the reviews, I'm just very, very impatient on this one haha
 
we have loads of motherboards here to do, but theres no point putting them all up on the same day. Giga UD7 and the MSI will probably be the next ones we will do.
 
Edit...Nice review as always Tom

I would be impressed if Sandy Bridge technology were put on 4-6 core current I5, I7, 1366 CPU's. Seems like all they did was update (correct short comings) the previous 1156 CPU / socket so they could say TADA...it's a new CPU, but I'm not an engineer.

It just leaves me scratching my head
 
I'm probably just being blind but when are these available to buy?

Answering myself here, but I found both Aria and Overclockers are letting you pre-order them now. 2600k is £252 at Aria or a huge £280 at overclockers. Checked tons of other places and they have no mention yet.
 
2600k is €340 and 2600 is €320 at azerty.nl
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Those prices have to drop. An i7-870 costs only €260, the i7-860 €230, and the i7-2600 replaces the i7-860/870 now doesn't it

i5-760 is €180, i5-2500k is €230? *sigh*
 
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