Yep, always nice to have some positive feedback. :)
Always find it frustrating reading reviews of such systems where they insist on testing them at completely unrealistic resolutions and detail settings, then bemoan the lack of performance. Its surprising what you can play even on Bay Trail...
Gave Dota 2 a go - 1080p and the default (fairly low) detail settings runs reasonably well, but not a solid 60fps.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tN-r1dBm3U
Bit of a demonstration of how performance scales with TDP - Core M 5Y10c vs. i5-5200U in GRID Autosport. Same 2+2 die, similar GPU base and max frequency speeds, but near linear scaling in performance with TDP increase.
http://youtu.be/lPTXrFMY690
Some more videos in case they are of interest to anyone.
3DMark Ice Storm (HD 5500 vs. HD 4400): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdKlyCy7ZwY
3DMark Cloud Gate (HD 5500 vs. HD 4400): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdzFPztkQc
F1 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGSN4J5IyLA
Minecraft...
I make note of it in the video - its just on one of the scene changes it takes a little longer to load in things and records a low number on a black screen. It varies from run to run.
Both systems running 2 x 4GB DDR3-1600 and in dual channel mode.
Managed to get hold of an HD 5500 (i5-5200U) based Acer laptop and put it up against my HD 4400 one (i5-4210U).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcuFne2kBoc
Improvement is 18% in Unigine Heaven. Will be trying running more stuff over the weekend.
The Intel 486DX2 was a 5V chip as well, the DX4 dropped that to 3.3V and you could get socket adapters to drop the voltage so you could use them in older boards.
With regards to the OP, it certainly isn't a good or wise thing to do, but if it was only for a short period of time then you may...
GRID Autosport in Benchmark and Attract Mode now too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OND8ioDGzI0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fptGmhwjmPk
Performance actually seems a bit CPU limited in some scenarios - planning on investigating a bit and posting up some info on it.
Of the i7's the only LGA2011 X79 chip that was locked was the i7-3820 - the Ivy-Bridge-E quad-core was unlocked.
But yes, I believe the Xeons are all fully locked.
BCLK overclocking on X79 isn't really the option it was on X58.
I run an E5-2687W and even setting a 101MHz BCLK on my ASUS P9X79 Pro gives an "Overclocking Failed" error on boot and resets to default. May be a way around it (I don't really overclock these days), but even then you're only going...
For those talking about Dota 2, this is it running on HD 5300 on a Core M 5Y70.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNI07tAUVh4
10-20fps, but that is running on just 4.5W....
In my testing its slower than HD 4200.
As you'd expect you're highly TDP bound - I've found up to a 50% performance difference from running the 5Y71 at stock settings (4.5W) vs. the cTDP 'up' mode (6W) in one graphics test. Yes seems unintuitive that a 33% increase in power can yield a 50%...
Nehalem>Westmere wasn't a straight die shrink - even ignoring the increase in core count you had the addition of AES-NI and a bunch of Virtualisation improvements in the CPU cores.
Fair enough. Just thought it was worth mentioning as you asked about greater than 4 core Xeons in your original post and these would be more expensive than the i7-4930K again (and necessitate moving to the X79 platform as well.
I use VMware Workstation heavily for my development work and went...
Depending what you are doing Virtualisation wise the K SKU's lack VT-d support, so a non-K may be preferable.
If you want more than 4-cores then why not look at an X79 board and an i7-4930K? These have 6-cores, 12-threads, and retain VT-d support.
As above, I'd look to go to an i5, but the i3 will be quite a lot faster than the Celeron.
If going from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge then make sure your motherboard supports it (if it's a 6-series chipset) and has the BIOS and management engine update.
Are you sure that is accurate and not just what Realtemp called it?
From my experience working with Gulftown the Ax chips had the CPU string "Genuine Intel(R) CPU 000 @ 3.07GHz (ES)", as with all early Intel ES chips (obviously speed noted depending on the sample), and then Bx...
It took a lot of effort to come out of lurking. This definitely isn't the username I signed up with, so seems I lurked through a forum transition at some point. ;)
You can't overclock the i3 to i5 speeds, partly because it has locked multipliers and partly because it has more EU's for the graphics (20 in the i3's HD 4400 graphics, 40 in the i5's HD 5000).
You can sort of overclock the i5 version a bit though - you can bump up the TDP and graphics clock...
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