Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Still got my X58 rig running so I figured I'd give it a treat...
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This will be fun, basically a 6 core hyper-threaded Sandy you can overclock.![]()
Nice !
Workmate of mine has one of those running at 4.20GHz

Still got my X58 rig running so I figured I'd give it a treat...
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This will be fun, basically a 6 core hyper-threaded Sandy you can overclock.![]()
I see, not bad! I won't be overclocking mine immediately since I lack a cooler and a spacious case for my server rig - but it is defintely in the plans.
That's not a Sandy.
Basically is, Same 32nm process and a lot of other stats minus the iGPU and 2 more cores.
No it isn't. It's Westmere and Westmere had the same IPC as Nehalem it just ran cooler. Intel gained nothing from the die shrink, basically.
The guys on OCUK tested the IPC vs that of Nehalem and it was identical. The only gain from shrinking these dies is that they overclocked better because they need slightly less voltage and thus run cooler (hence why you can go over 4ghz, something nigh on impossible on the I7 950).
I scored 1300 points in Cinebench R15 on my 3970x. Try doing that on one of these lol.
You're absolutely right, we're looking at a 10% disadvantage clock per clock at least... At 5.0GHz it might reach 1300pts at cinebench but with my cooling solution 4.0 is more likelyNo it isn't. It's Westmere and Westmere had the same IPC as Nehalem it just ran cooler. Intel gained nothing from the die shrink, basically.
The guys on OCUK tested the IPC vs that of Nehalem and it was identical. The only gain from shrinking these dies is that they overclocked better because they need slightly less voltage and thus run cooler (hence why you can go over 4ghz, something nigh on impossible on the I7 950).
I scored 1300 points in Cinebench R15 on my 3970x. Try doing that on one of these lol.
You're absolutely right, we're looking at a 10% disadvantage clock per clock at least... At 5.0GHz it might reach 1300pts at cinebench but with my cooling solution 4.0 is more likelyIt'll probably be my video encoder slave.
Will be here next week!
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So I may have got myself this for my racing rig.........
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