42 Core i7 reviews and counting
INTEL'S NEHALEM I7 chip is already being heralded as the greatest tech achievement since last season's greatest tech achievement.
We've been fiddling with the beast in our various labs across the globe, meanwhile we just had to do a round up of all the Core i7 reviews we could find.
What we found were 42 reviews of the freshly un-NDAed processor, enough to leave you staring at your computer screen for a day or two, oblivious to family, work, pets and personal hygiene.
These are mostly English, French, German and Dutch reviews, but the odd American review or two are also in there. The ones we couldn’t get in English we’ve submitted to the Google treatment, so don’t complain...
We have them, as usual, in no order at all, just to mess with you. We'll be adding our two penn'orth in due course.
It’s a long list:
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Gor blimey. µ
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or perhaps "core blimey" ;-)
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/core_i7_disected_and_benchmarked_everything_you_need_know_about_intels_nextgen_cpu?page=0%2C0
Way down deep in the middle of the Congo,
A hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango.
He stuck it with the others, and he danced a dainty tango.
The rhino said, "I know, we'll call it Um Bongo"

Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.

The python picked the passion fruit, the marmoset the mandarin.
The parrot painted packets, that the whole caboodle landed in.
So when it comes to sun and fun and goodness in the jungle,
They all prefer the sunny funny one they call Um Bongo!
I read a review of the Nvidia 280 video card two weeks ago where the publisher benchmarked the card using identical hardware and games but scaled the CPU from lower end Core2 dual core CPU to top end Core2 quad core CPU.

The 280 was compared to the 9800 on identical hardware. What they showed was that the 280 performance scaled linearly at about a 20% vs with CPU power up to the then top Intel CPU, while the 9800 topped out with about an E8500. The games were things like Crysis, games that use a lot of physics - which generally needs CPU processing.

There is a lot of raw power in the i7, and probably many games are not written to exploit it. However, given the results of that article, I suspect that GPUs are probably needing more powerful CPUs for at least games that do a lot of physics.

Nvidia would have it that their GPUs can supplant the CPU. My experiments programming an 8800GT suggest that if the code is very parallel and math intensive and has essentially no branches then this is true. Code with a modest amount of branches lost a lot of performance on the 8800GT. Take it for what you think it is worth.

The article did not do the same comparison with the 3870 as it did with the 280. I am sorry but I cannot find a link to the article. If I can, I'll post it.
With FXS using multi-cores and bringing most systems to their knees, why are there no FSX bechmarks in the eight or so sites I looked at?