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interesting article. Some of the numbers seem a bit off (especially for the temperatures -- I'm pretty sure the 8150 under load isn't 30C, nor at idle 7C) other than that, I would have liked to see some more benchmarks, but it fits about where I expected it to.
Lol. Who said amd has always run cooler? That's complete crap. Lmao. You amd fanboys need to stop. I don't care what benchmarks say. My games run fine on both chips.
Lol. Who said amd has always run cooler? That's complete crap. Lmao. You amd fanboys need to stop. I don't care what benchmarks say. My games run fine on both chips.
Thats not sticking your neck out.. thats pointing out the obvious. Now, if you are moving from something older, like i7 920 or even older. I would imagine you get the best you can afford.
The rumors are true. It runs hot. Read our review on the front page.
Mmm... Unless you need the faster iGPU (for faster encoding using Virtu), I don't actually see much of a différence.
Also, just because it runs hotter in and of itself doesnt mean much, it has a higher temp limit (105c tjmax instead of 95) and consumes less power, so wont heat the room as much, despite running warmer. If you are buying new, and the prices are close to the same, theres no real reason not to buy ivybridge. But if you already have a decent or better clocking sandybridge chip, it just doesnt seem worthwhile unless you are a regular in the extreme cooling subsection.
From what I have read so far IB runs hotter and doesn't clock as well as sandy. The chip has some cool features like 3d transistors but it doesn't translate into a very big performance gain.