Intel Sandy Bridge CPU In-Depth Look At Overclocking, Memory Timings and More @ Madshrimps

Since getting my Core i7 2600K I have explored just about every aspect of Sandy Bridge overclocking, I have yet to master the new platform but have a pretty good idea as to what I need to change to get the most from the system. 

Madshrimps has compiled a technology overview and mixed in some memory timing examples to illustrate how the new chip scales when overclocked.

First introduced at the CES, Intel's new Sandy Bridge CPU architecture is here to flood the mainstream market with over 25 CPUs. Don't panic, most are foreseen for the mobile market and only 9 new models will be introduced for the desktop segment. Coinciding with this new release is also a new socket design. 1155 pins will be the new standard for Intel's mainstream lineup. Yes you guessed it, Sandy bridge is here to replace socket 1156. Slowly but steadily Clarkdale and Lynnfield will become End Of Life and will be phased out. At the Sandy Bridge Tech conference the representatives of Intel said that the current S1366 i7 lineup (Bloomfield and Gulftown) will remain their high end platform. Time to explore Sandy Bridge...

I can tell you from experience that a 2600K clocked up to 5100Mhz at around a 1900Mhz memory clock backed by high quality ram running at CAS 7 will provide you with around 26GB/s worth of memory bandwidth as reported by SiSoft Sandra.  That is more bandwidth than a X58 running triple channel memory at comparable clockspeeds.

The chip is a monster, nuff said.

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