Thread: Intel Core i seven-2600K and i5-2500K CPUs introduction.

Today’s pre-establish of Intel’s Sandy Bridge-based CPUs should arrive as no surprise to anybody who still remotely comes the PC tech scene. We, on with Intel and numerous early companies and media outlets, have been tardily leaking out Sandy Bridge and Sandy Bridge-related details for lots months immediately.

Heck, we’ve still showed off a number of Sandy Bridge compatible CPU board in the past, posted pics of literal CPUs, and talked about lots of the microarchitecture’s characteristics so soon. We evidently weren’t capable to disclose all of the platform’s particulars, still, and boy is there a lot however to cover. That’s what this article is for.

We’ve had a elite Core i5 and Core i7 Sandy Bridge grounded CPUs kicking approximately the HotHardware labs for a while immediately, along with a sampling of six-series chipset based CPU board to go on with them. We’ve constituted poking, prodding, and testing them to get a beneficial feel for what Sandy Bridge and six-Series chipset is all about and we’ve collected a boatload of information to contribution with you all here.



In addition to investing a pair of Core i5 and Core i7 Sandy Bridge based CPUs to the test in our common suite of benchmarks, we’ve also tested their novel integrated graphics core and media encoding engine, tested several multi-GPU installs, overclocked Sandy Bridge, and even evaluated a elite mainstream and enthusiast-class CPU board.

Our aim was to provide a sort of “one stop shop” for all matters Sandy Bridge. Whether we’ve succeeded or not doesn’t really subject, afterwards there’s a ton of information and data to work by regardless! And when you're done here, we've too got the down low on Sandy Bridge mobile offerings as well. So step right up, become your mice warmed up, and strap in as we (eventually) give you the full scoop on Sandy Bridge and all of the goodness that’s arriving along with it.