Sandyfied (56k / Mobile Bandwidth warning, Complete unboxing inside)

Shripad

Shripad

ex-Mod
This is my first major upgrade after 2 years of Xeon love.

Finally decided to try something new after I got this P8Z68 Deluxe board from Asus few weeks back. Got 2600k today. And now ready to play with Sandy Bridge for the first time.

My new 8GB RAM kit is yet to come, so testing with old kit until then.

Looks like a good chip. Doing 4.5Ghz at 1.264v (set this voltage at random and it looks like its stable, will try lowering it later ). My Gamer Storm heatsink seems to be coping really well with SB. Temps are great.

I am torn between love or hate feeling of UEFI Bios. I am totally new to it as well as the platform, but its slower to operate. But I guess its just matter of time and adjusting to the new bios.

Ok enough talk, let the pics do rest of the talking.

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Direct Link to current OC and Temps : http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6923/sandy2h.jpg

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Cong.. Nice choise for Mobo... Just one question..

How good does i7-SB experience is, in general and extrem PC Load when compaired with Xeon ?
 
rakesh_sharma23 said:
Cong.. Nice choise for Mobo... Just one question..

How good does i7-SB experience is, in general and extrem PC Load when compaired with Xeon ?
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Tough to say.

Clock per clock, difference is small. It does show its colours in benchmarks, but day to day feel is unchanged.

Havent tested gaming yet. But video rendering is slightly slower on Sandy Bridge. Noticed this when I accedentally deleted one video edit and did it again today with SB at 4.2Ghz. It took little more time.

I am sure in benchmarks and games, this will leave the bloomfield behind, will clock higher and eat less power. But its not really a true upgrade for anyone having x58 platform. I wouldnt have done it if I had not got this board from Asus :p
 
Congrats Shripad! Now we know why the Xeon got the step-fatherly treatment and was sent to the market section :p
 
sarang said:
Congrats Shripad! Now we know why the Xeon got the step-fatherly treatment and was sent to the market section :p
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Yup, mainly to fund the processor and new 8GB kit purchase. (Maybe a small SSD but thats maybe at the moment).

Like I said, I wouldnt have jumped to SB myself usually by spending 1 rupee from my pocket, I dont think its worth it from top of the line x58 setup, but as I got this board, I could move to SB without spending any additional cash from my pocket. The sale money took care of CPU and RAM that I needed. ;)
 
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