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    FARCRY 2 cpu benchmark

    prescott? :) sorry cant help. beginning to look like it. better spend money on new gpu and wait/use stream/cuda/badaboom w/e. then you address your gaming and media needs.
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    Core i7 Reviews

    made more sense. however, i would like to point out, until these numbers on i920 are improved, we will just take them as they are (5 to 10% improvement on power efficiency over q9450). also, i double checked other numbers on q9770 and i965. here's what i got: POV-Ray5...
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    First Shanghai benchmark numbers tip up

    shud of run crysis on it. sry, bored.
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    Core i7 Reviews

    just to caution you on throwing numbers out there. i965 data is hardly a representative of the whole nehalem family. tests were done with turbo on. WITH TURBO OFF , i920 power consumption is hardly (5-10%?) improved compared to q9450. also i failed to find power consumption for other tests...
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    Mouse, Monitor and Keyboard won't turn on

    try putting the bad stick back, or put in different slot. sometimes it just need reseating, as pointed out. saves you the hassle if it still works.
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    Hyperthreading

    are these figures with turbo mode on or off? also, the way things re shaping up, cpu becomes less and less important, proven by the emergence of atom-based products. games are gpu bound and hpc, video encoding/editing, 3d rendering leaning towards gpgpu. soon we will have a chipset with...
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    Core i7 Reviews

    guru3d's numbers are questionable at best. check anand's fc2 numbers for comparison. 965 is nowhere near the almost 2x performance over 9770 its trying to project.
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    Core i7 Reviews

    ok i looked up anand's gaming review again. nowhere did he mention about turbo being off. i think turbo is on by default. if turbo kicked in during the test, then at stock voltages, anand wasnt really comparing them clock for clock. there might be a good chance that they have same ipc gamewise.
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    Core i7 Reviews

    sorry quoting my own. on guru3d still, i noticed they tossed 9770 in there: @1024x768:FC2 965 139 fps 9770 79 fps anandtech: 965 115.1 fps 9770 102.6 fps something doesnt add up. how does adding gpu decrease 9770's performance? or even affect both cpu performance if its...
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    Core i7 Reviews

    fc2 and crysis were tested at 1024x768 so?
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    Core i7 Reviews

    okay check this out, this is based from anand's review: based on 5 games tested, phenom 9950be is roughly 20pct off compared to q9450 (hardly a news i supposed) and some ~28% off nehalem. so if deneb can come up with 20pct improvement...... now comes the interesting part, at ~2.6Ghz, nehalem...
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    Core i7 Reviews

    hmm, so how you know its performance if you had a bad board from the start? btw, i came accross this, maybe first guy ever to buy nehalem. its like a soap opera or a suspense thriller hahahha. http://www.overclock.net/intel...06091-i7-out-wild.html
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    Core i7 Reviews

    the point is that, playing games at very high resolutions, top of the line cpu's hardly make a difference, much less an 8-thread, tri-channel cpu. that's why upgrading from previous extreme to next gen extreme cpu is pointless for gaming. CPUs were already less important to gaming...
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    Core i7 Reviews

    the point is that, playing games at very high resolutions, top of the line cpu's hardly make a difference, much less an 8-thread, tri-channel cpu. that's why upgrading from previous extreme to next gen extreme cpu is pointless for gaming. now to determine whether nehalem improves on previous...
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    Core i7 Reviews

    re guru3d review: i don't know, they compared a ~$1000 monolithic-quadcore-with-imc-hypertrading-and-qpi-2nd-gen-45nm-process-with-triple-channel-memory-cpu to a ~$200-old-gen-and-dualcore-cpu and we can call it impressive? hah.
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    Core i7 Reviews

    sorry if i misread anything, i looked at the system consumption and i have seen neahalem with higher consumption. can you exactly where it is? there werent many reviews then. also, when you were young and you made mistake and being called such and such, chances are youre going to adapt the same...
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    Core i7 Reviews

    ok ill try to list down my thoughts on nehalem based on initial review, on which i based my conclusion: 1. @ low res: newer games (fc2, cw: legion) -not much difference in fps. -older games, they are more than 200 fps already (some are in 600's). means older games do not present enough to...
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    Core i7 Reviews

    this is what i said in my other comment. maybe i7 is for the extremest of extremes of a gamer, where you need 3xsli for it to shine. also, it was only compared to 1 cpu. what if the e8400 is overclocked? would it not achieved the same fps the 965 did? and 2560x1600, at resolution people...
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    Core i7 Reviews

    clearly, comparing to c2q's size and power consumption (and prolly oclocakability), and cost to migrate to new platform, i7 has underachieve. clearly the chip is not for gamers, except prolly the hardcorest (if there's even a word) of the hardcores. if deneb can come up to 90-95pct of penryn...
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    Core i7 Reviews

    why most of game benchmarks are shown in high resolution of which most/majority of results clearly show they are gpu limited. ok LH:far cry2 and crisis warhead (newer games) @800x600 -clearly not much difference in fps between 920 and 965, even 965@3.8 (not worth the ~$700 difference)...
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    How to overclock your Nehalem (Core i7)

    there's no nda to show oclock i7 and superpi test results, but there's nda when it comes to gaming tests hmmm.
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    Core i7 Reviews

    12 pages and only 2 games tested - both at high resolution hmmm. i dont think i seen power consumption test. edit:br
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    core i7 or deneb

    i think i agree to this. deneb will probably match kentsfield, assuming that 20pct ipc improvement is correct. now maybe when deneb shifts to am3, it will improve a few percentage points then it could be neck and neck with yorkie, assuming yorkie does not improve by then. but how much is...
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    core i7 or deneb

    i presume you are talking about gaming here (nehalem is launching as an extreme desktop chip for enthusiast first, so you must be - or are you not?). 1. deneb can compete with i7 if you dont need 8 threads to play games. 2. deneb can compete with i7 if you dont need 3 channel bandwidth to...
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    core i7 or deneb

    can someone point link of a b3 phenom oclock to 3ghz side by side with a yorkfield running at 2.5ghz?
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    Nehalem Benches by Pcworld

    im going to start playing cinebench and vantage on my sempron...joke:)
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    core i7 or deneb

    okay, if we are going to assume that the 20pct ipc increase for deneb is true, then we can safely conclude if deneb is faster, or slower, and by how much, compared to yorkfield by running a benchmark comparing a 2.5ghz yorkie to an oc b3 3ghz phenom. or if someone has data already showing...
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    Intel Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) Overclock

    ive seen benchmark somewhere where it shows nothing to very little performance difference between 2- and 3-channel memory bandwith. does this mean if you buy nehalem, you are partly paying for something of no use?
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    AMD's 45nm Shanghai goes on sale

    ok, ok i got it. shanghai = server, deneb =desktop nehalem = deskstop , ? = server hmm, but shanghai is launching shortly while nehalem server is not, but the desktop one is. what im trying to say is, desktop and server chips almost have same cost to manufacture right (or am i wrong?), so as...
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    AMD's 45nm Shanghai goes on sale

    first post:) (just trying to pass time, 'been long time AT reader, 'thought i should contribute a little. also slightly amd biased- i have sempron and x1550:) only slightly, i buy the cheapest and i love underdogs). top nehalem is priced (rumored?) at $999 while top opteron is $2,509 or...