Intel Core i7 870 & Core i5 750

Intel Core i7 870 & Core i5 750 - Test Setup

Though Intel is launching three CPUs today, it only provided us with two for testing: Core i7 870 and Core i5 750. We will assess the piggy in the middle, the Core i7 860 in the near future.

Our testing consists of mostly real world benchmarks including games, photo editing, mp3 encoding, and video transcoding along with a few canned benchmarks in the form of PCMark Vantage and the 3D rendering tests Cinebench and POVray.

CPUs Tested

Intel Core i7 870
Intel Core i5 750
Intel Core i7 965
Intel Core i7 920
Intel Core 2 QX9770
Intel Core 2 Q9550
AMD Phenom II 965 BE

Test Setup

Common System Components

AMD ATI Radeon 4870 X2 Graphics Card

2 x 1GB Qimonda IMSH1GU03A1F1C-10F PC3-8500 DDR3 RAM

Western Digital Raptor X 150GB Hard Drive

Pioneer BDC-S02BK Blu-ray Drive

Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

Core i7 870 and Core i5 750 (Lynnfield) Test System

Intel DP55KG Motherboard

Core i7 900 (Bloomfield) Test System

Intel DX58SO SmackOver Motherboard

Core 2 test Sytem

Asus P5E3 Motherboard

AMD Phenom Test System

Asus M4A79T Deluxe Motherboard

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Ohmz

1:40 PM on 8 September, 2009

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Am I the only one missing part of Page 11?

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Todd

1:44 PM on 8 September, 2009

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To bad you all didn't test GTA IV or ArmA 2 for the games, as these use more of the CPU than any other game for the time being. But nevertheless, great review, definitely will have to keep my eye out for these CPU's.

Ed

1:54 PM on 8 September, 2009

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@Ohmz: Right your are. Fixed.

Doug Ellison

5:40 PM on 8 September, 2009

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You can barely tell the colours apart on the Cinebench graph. There are more colours than just blue and green you know.

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