Reviewed: Intel Sandy Bridge E

by  Mike Jennings  |  Friday 24 February 2012
Reviewed: Intel Sandy Bridge E
Rating
Overall:

Sandy Bridge E is both enormous and expensive, but it is also the fastest consumer CPU ever released. Read our review.

Peformance:
6
Features & Design:
5
Value for Money:
3
Price
$1249 AUD
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Overall
Sandy Bridge E
1.12
Responsiveness
Sandy Bridge E
0.97
Media
Sandy Bridge E
1.17
Multitasking
Sandy Bridge E
1.23
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Comments: 5
photohounds
26 February 2012
 It LOOKS a tad like the old pentium pro - just 100x as fast ...


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Reviewed: Intel Sandy Bridge E?
Sandy Bridge E is both enormous and expensive, but it is also the fastest consumer CPU ever released. Read our review.

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petergaskin
26 February 2012
 But in only 2 mnonths time - will it be replaced by an even better ivy bridge version?
amcmo
27 February 2012
 Looks Like Ivy could be another 3-4 months. The're having issues ramping up the 22Nm.

That said, the equiv to the current 2600K could be sweet, have to figure on a good reduction in power, (relatively)minor improvement in performance, after all it's the process shrink, rather than the 'all new'
photohounds
27 February 2012
 Smartphones that interface with PC-friendly Desktop hardware may well power the next low-end Desktops ... Ubuntu are working pretty hard on this.
photohounds
27 February 2012
 For those of us that do image/video processing (or gaming) this density will give things a nudge in that space over the next 12 mo :)






Edited by photohounds: 27/2/2012 10:23:12 PM
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