Intel Sandy Bridge Takeover - Custom PC Performance Report

In case you have not heard, Intel fell thermo-nuclear warhead in the CPU industry with its latest "tock" in its "tick tock" strategy. Tock rhymes with "Rock" and this is what "point" is supposed to be. The last "dot" is Nahelem. Their second-generation Core i7 technology brings a lot of "firsts" and "new" lineup for both Intel and the industry as a whole.

The bottom line is this:. Sandy Bridge is cooler, quieter, and so loaded with advanced technologies, features, overclocking capabilities, performance and tiered up and down the price / performance stack

Intel awkwardly tried to position this product as a replacement for the previous "mainstream" platform, the P55 chipset and its subsequent Socket 1156 processors. Indeed, in the hundreds of slides and documents I've read, no one can compare it with the X58 platform.

But when I got my hands on Sandy Bridge and put it beside the hands down the best selling processor, Core i7 950 -. I was blown away

This works amazingly cooler and quieter, delivers better performance and efficiency of the head, and is less expensive platform such as a processor i7 950 (if you read the reviews, even i7 975 Extreme Edition). In fact, the one and only one reason to buy the X58 platform, if you're interested in getting the 6-core for some hard core video transcoding / encoding. And in this case, we would keep the X58 platform around.

The fact that Sandy Bridge is the smart choice for consumers looking for a custom pc, and it does not matter if you're spending $ 1,000 or $ 10,000.

Let me get you started with some benchmarks I ran.
We ran the gamut of processes through benchmarking.
Core i7 2600K@4.8ghz
I5 2500K@4.8ghz
Core i7 2600K
Phenom II X6 1090T
Core i7 950
I5 2500K
I5 2300
I3 2120
I3 2100
Pentium II 445 X3
Below are my impressions of the results of these tests.

CineBench multi-threaded PASSING

Starting with Cinebench, show a large multi-threaded performance in content creation environments, you will see a number of explosive from 2600K, 2500K with only the edge of the i7 950 and X6 1090T.

CineBench SINGLE threaded PASSING

preservation of these processors in their place a switch to a threaded performance results in Cinebench R10. Without the force of the 6 core behind it, X6 1090T last dive, and Athlon X3 does not even rise from the bench. Furthermore, each Sandy Bridge processor outclasses Core i7 950 in a single threaded operation.

PASS 2 HD x264 video encoding

Moving on to video coding, it is almost mirrored the performance of processors in our Cinebench R11.5 Muli-threaded test, with 2600K clear winner.

Total platform performance with PC-MARK VANTAGE

This is where it starts to get interesting - when you stop focusing 100% on multithreaded processors, and able to begin to factor in the whole platform solution. Sandy Bridge is really just a class of its common use - from multi-tasking processing photos, to the game - all taken into account in this test - Sandy Bridge just walks away from it

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consumption CineBench

, but to put it all in perspective, look at how little it costs you performance in terms of power draw. All else being equal the performance of Sandy Bridge is great, but not so good at such low power consumption and thus lower temps and noise is a major accomplishment.

CONCLUSION

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It's one thing to run the numbers, that's another thing the experience of each of these configurations in a row, getting to feel the bite, if you will. And when you really put this to the test configuration in custom computers, and hear the fans rev up and feel the heat from the voltage regulators, and see the energy, it really puts things into perspective. Sandy Bridge put these numbers up noiselessly, with heatpipes that feels almost cold to the touch, and close to idle power numbers of an earlier generation platforms.

Combine that with the cost, scalable, cost effective platform and integrated all the way to 3-way SLI monstrosities overclocking, and you can see why it is exciting. If you're in the market for a new custom PC, for whatever reason, get Sandy Bridge.