Once again, the refresh rate was practically unaffected by the CPU in place, all seven Sandy Bridge processors managed a frame rate between Since the quad-core CPUs could not distance themselves from their dual-core cousins, the limitations of the graphics card was most likely the determining factor for the refresh rate.
After all the tests were done, we were able to draw two conclusions. One, Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture is so powerful that even the entry-level model, the Core iM , is without a doubt fit for gaming. Two, mid-range graphics cards reach their gaming limits so quickly that the choice of processor hardly has any influence over the refresh rate.
In three of the four games tested, the CPUs produced results within one fps of each other. Only in Call of Duty: Black Ops did the difference between the least and most expensive CPUs rise to a still not-very-significant 4 fps. Occasional gamers, therefore, don't need to dish out for a more powerful CPU when choosing a mid-range graphic card. To go along with the Nvidia GeForce GT M we'd recommend the Core iM , which unlike the Core i3 models sports the automatic overclocking feature Turbo Boost and offers the best price-to-performance ratio.
Quad-core CPUs or dual-core processors with high clock rates will only start to make a difference when combined with real gaming notebooks or high-end laptops equipped with graphics cards on par with or better than the GeForce GTX M or Radeon HD More and more games are drawing on the power of three or four CPU cores.
But does a high-end processor make much of a difference when combined with a mid-grade graphics card? Bad Company 2. Dirt 2. Black Ops. This is why the Core iK defined a generation. We are now in , and appreciate that when Intel moved beyond four cores on the mainstream, if users could stomach the cost of DDR4, either upgraded to a new Intel system, or went down the AMD route.
But how does the Core iK hold up to workloads and games; or perhaps even better, how does the overclocked Core iK fare? Truth be told, the Core iK was not the highest grade Sandy Bridge mainstream desktop processor. Months after the K launched, Intel pushed a slightly higher clocked K into the market. It performed almost the same, and overclocked to a similar amount, but cost a bit more. By this time, users who had made the jump were on the K, and it stuck with us.
The Core iK was a 32nm quad-core processor with HyperThreading, offering a 3. For this article, I used the second iK I purchased back when they were new. It was tested at both its out of the box frequency, and an overclocked frequency of 4.
This is a middling conservative overclock — the best chips managed 5. In fact, I distinctly remember my first Core iK getting 5. For these results, we also used overclocked memory, at DDR C The fastest and latest final? At the same time as the K, Intel also launched its first overclockable dual core with hyperthreading, the Core iK.
During that review, we overclocked the Core i3 and compared it directly to the out-of-the-box Core iK, trying to answer the question if Intel had managed to make a dual-core reach a similar performance to its old flagship processor. While the i3 had the upper hand in single threaded performance and memory performance, the two fewer cores ultimately made most tasks heavy work for the Core i3.
It will be usable on your system, just consider changing your PSU, it would be good if you could provide its model. Overall that it is an old CPU with no upgradeability, so it would be preferable to just get a new system.
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