Power. Performance.
Perfection.
INTEL 3rd Generation Core i7 – Power like never before!
S
ome may not like it, others underwhelmed
even. After all, what is a 7% increase in
performance clock for clock? Expectations,
promises, rumours, lies, conjecture, leaked
results. Whatever it may have been, the “gamers”
and regular users were expecting; Ivy-Bridge
CPUs have turned out to be anything but
that. Who cares though right? I mean for us
enthusiasts it could have been a 2% increase in
performance, higher memory multipliers and
much higher clock speeds we’d likely have been
impressed with Ivy-Bridge.
Fortunately however we have something even
better. Be it the 22nm tri-gate technology or some
other technological breakthrough, INTEL has
delivered to us what we have sorely missed since
the Core 2 days. That is, a CPU that plays all our
favourite games, in particular 3DMark2001se.
An ancient benchmark for sure, but it never gets
old here and the results that 3rd generation
core CPUs are capable of are nothing short of
astounding. We have a winner here and we are
thoroughly impressed at TheOverclocker with
Ivy-Bridge.
The technical wizardry of what makes this
CPU tick you’ll find in numerous reviews all over
the web. That’s not what we are here to repeat
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to you, we are only interested in the breakneck
performance under LN2. We’d have liked to say
Dry Ice is still loads of fun on this platform, but it’s
not, it’s just not cold enough and you’ll really want
some LN2 to get the most out of these CPUs.
So then, briefly what are we looking at you may
ask? We’re looking at the first mass produced
22nm node CPU. Besides, the smaller node,
INTEL has manufactured this on a tri-gate
technology which it claims lowers leakage by
37% while allowing faster switching speeds
and higher drive current. What that translates
into is cooler and better performing CPUs.
Lower temperatures, well that’s debatable
as some of the disappointment that gamers
have levelled at the CPUs are the much higher
operating temperatures when compared to
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