Date: September 7th, 2009
Article By: Nathan Glentworth (Owner / Head Editor)
Product was submitted by: Intel
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BENCHMARKING
SUPER PI (1MEG CALCULATION)
This record-breaking program was ported to personal computer environment such as Windows NT and Windows 95 and called Super PI. In order to calculate 33.55 million digits, it takes within 3 days with Pentium 90MHz, 40MB main memory and 340MB available storage.
Even with the triple channel memory removed, the new i7-870 with the turbo mode enabled did yield an improvement. Without the turbo, the processor was only slightly faster than a i7-920.
PASSMARK v6.1 FULL PROCESSOR BENCHMARK
Passmark is a new benchmark we will be using on Tweaknews to test and overall score a processors performance based on several tasks accomplished.
Through Passmark's barrage of processor tests, the i7-870 still held up very strong though the i7-965XE did hold up better to the overall barrage of tests that make up this one benchmark score.
HOC CRYSIS CPU BENCHMARK (1024X768 : MAX DETAIL SETTINGS)
HOC released a benchmark that allows you to use Crysis as a processor benchmarking tool. The results are as follows.
This is where a person with a Core 2 Quad or a Core 2 Duo needs to thing about a possible upgrade. The difference seen here is pretty substantial and the increased bandwidth does yield a gaming framerate improvement.
HOC CRYSIS VIDEOCARD BENCHMARK (1024X768 : MAX DETAIL SETTINGS)
Also, in addition to the CPU benchmark, there is a good videocard benchmark that will also show any difference in processor performance.
The same results were seen again. An overall increase of one frame per second average was noted.
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