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Ocre · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:22 am **Posts:** 2234

wow, thanks apoppin for posting....re-posting this information.

glad to see it, and obviously my suspicion was wrong, there is a slight improvement per clock. it might even average at least ~4% increase in performance at the same clock. i will average it out later, i dont have anytime now but i can see there probably more gains than i thought (which was like 2% or less).

grstanford · **Joined:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 5170

apoppin wrote:

grstanford wrote:

The EVGA should be a slight improvement over the ECS board, but probably not by a lot I'd guess without knowing details of how both companies engineered the memory slots, if they provide extra prower separately or not. Even then, it is the CPU that will have the most influence, it contains the memory controller. It's a shame you don't also have an i7 SB to compare the i7 IB against.

i wonder if there would be a difference if i used only 2 DIMMs - 2x4GB RAM. i need to ask Kingston about this.

ANYWAY ... you mentioned SB vs IB - Don Karnage did some great tests
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.ph ... stcount=44

There should be a difference, less DIMM's to power and drive should reduce stress on the memory controller. I'm mainly curious about the new 22nm process and how the new transisitors cope with this sort of stress test compared to the older SB chips.

The benches you linked show a very slight improvement in some cases, a lot of those benches are faster (or slower) for reasons other than memory though. Still it shows that unless PCI-e 3.0 is somehow crucial to you, that you should not rush to replace a SB i5/i7 with an IB i5/i7, most of the gains seem to come from the updated AVX features in IB.

apoppin · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:54 pm

i would never replace SB with IB - even as a tech site. i am mostly interested in what IB (or SB) bring over Bloomfield.
-- and USB 3.0 and PCIe 3.0 might be useful. i waited for 8x+8x PCIe 3.0 and i do want to test a GTX 690 in the 16x slot and again in the 8x slot (i have seen a couple of percent difference between 8x and 16x slot in my ECS MB but the results are preliminary).

i am finishing up my testing to "other than gaming"
- i stopped using my HDDs and have moved to SSD and 8GB of RAM for each system; both CPUs are at 4.2GHz using a stock GTX 680 and the RAM is overclocked.

jaydip · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:33 am

Cool,so when it is coming out Mark?

apoppin · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:40 am

What?

jaydip · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:46 am

The evalutation

apoppin · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:25 am

Which one. There are a bunch coming; some nearly finished .. others in the benching stage

A lot of evaluations coming in the next two weeks.

Right now my stomach is acting up and it is hard to concentrate.

jaydip · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:28 am

OK take a break man.I am mostly interested in the IPC comparison.After all this is done have a look at Diablo 3

Ocre · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:22 am **Posts:** 2234

jaydip wrote:

Cool,so when it is coming out Mark?

hey!!!!

no rushing

apoppin · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:32 pm

i am pretty jammed up with "other than with ABT" this week. However, i am still benching the IPC evaluation and i am writing the Noctua Cooler and Thermaltake case review when i have more than a few minutes. IF i could work uninterrupted for about 6 hours, i'd have at least one article published.

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