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welcome to my belated Ivybridge coverage so in front of me here I have a few different processors some of the processors that we've tested are represented by boxes here some of them are not but I want to start with outlining the overall Ivy Bridge lineup so we have everything from the lowly 34 50s so this is a core i5 that's a dual core that has no K at the end so that means this is not an unlocked overclocking processor although you can still overclock it a little bit but a very very very limited it also has a 50 at the end of the part number and what that means is that it has HD 2500 graphics and that will be important for one of my other videos where I'm going to do an onboard graphics roundup where I compare the 2500 the 4000 the older last generation 3000 that was on Sandy Bridge as well as AMD's 38 70k APU that has their onboard Radeon graphics so let's hold on let's keep going though so for the rest of lineup so what all this means I seven means you have hyper threading I five means no hyper threading the 30 whatever seems to have some sort of indication in terms of the rank within the product stack 50 versus a 70 means 2500 versus Intel HD graphics 4000 which is significantly more powerful from our testing and then the K at the end means that you have an unlocked processor that can be easily overclocked and in this case the 3770k sample that we were working with was able to easily achieve 4.6 gigahertz and that's 24/7 stable in fact that is the setting that we used for our max overclocking results so you know what I guess we might as well just go with here I'm gonna hide the IGP showdown actually no I shouldn't yes I'll hide these ones for now there we go so let's let's just go through this you guys let's do this is like a one-day so in terms of the tests that I ran my timing was fairly limited so with a single GTX 680 I ran most of this other stuff so PC mark 7 Cinebench as well as you saying either quick sink or no clink sink to quickly convert a video using arcsoft Media encoder 7 so I took a 1 gig file and then I outputted it in an iPhone 4 compatible format and timed how long it took so I'll do that as sort of round 2 through all of the tests so PC mark 7 wise we can clearly see that the Mac's overclocked 3770k you know what I'll turn these into graphs all right so we're just going to do these one at a time here's PC mark 7 basically this doesn't benefit as much from multiple cores as you might expect so our eight core processor the 8150 from AMD as well as our six core processor the 3930k don't actually do that well I mean that 3930k score is a little bit better than its Sandy Bridge brethren remember this is sandy bridge-e but the 8150 just yeah doesn't doesn't do that well in this test you can see that it does however benefit from significantly higher core clock speeds so once we overclocked our 3770k to 4.6 gigahertz the score dramatically improved and we do get a slight boost from hyper-threading here you can see however though with Sandy Bridge we were pretty much within margin of error on these two processors so yeah all of this take it with a bit of a grain of salt remember this is still a synthetic benchmark here's our Cinebench test so you can see this was run in two different settings single threaded as well as multi-threaded so you can see that single threading runs according to you know increasing down the graph so that's the order it's sort of set up and however the multi-threading is where some of these processors really differentiate each other from each other so the 8150 gets pretty much destroyed in the single threaded test falling by about two about half of the score of the 3770 with the max overclocked on it however due to its eight cores it does sort of make up some ground and falls pretty in-between the 2500 K and the 3570 K which is appropriate given its price point ah the new generation Ivy Bridge processors beat their last generation Sandy Bridge equivalents by about ten percent so this is pretty much to be expected and then you can see here that the Sandy Bridge core which is the same as on sandy bridge-e the six core 3930k scores about the same in the single thread however just sort of stomps all over everything when it comes to multithreading because this is six course 12 threads you have to do some serious overclocking that is about 4.6 gigahertz on Ivybridge in order to get it to catch up to sandy bridge-e in a multi-threaded tests like the Cinebench test for battlefield 3 guys remember this is a custom run-through so the results might not have the same kind of consistency but I believe them to be well real world accurate so battlefield 3 seems to care about multi-threading you can see here our 3930k performs extremely well even running with the big dog in this test which is the 3770k at its maximum overclock and remember a 3930k is good for at least you know a reasonable overclock to four point mid gigahertz as well so there's more performance to be squeezed out of it now unlike some CPU reviews I've gone with realistic settings 1080p high details so that's why you're not seeing much difference in terms of the performance of these processors let's face it they're all pretty close everything here uses Sandy Bridge everything here uses Ivy Bridge and this is the lone AMD CPU in the test so you can see the fx-8150 doesn't do that well but everything else is pretty close when it comes to the max FPS with the 3770k max OC winning and everything else here is pretty similar when it comes to the minimum FPS as well dicing max because I meant average so the red bar is average and the blue bar is the minimum so this is all sort of within margin of error and this is the one that's really lagging behind in this case if you want to see those numbers a little bit better there you go running with my usual which are two settings you can see again there's not much separation here in terms of performance with the exception of the 39:36 3930k which shows its prowess again with its multi cornice as well as the 3770k being the clear winner again and the 8150 being the lesser performing part out of all of the parts in this particular test i'm using yeah my usual settings I think I already said that now it should be noted that while I am using realistic settings for the games I'm using maybe a bit of an unrealistic configuration these are dual 79 70s overclocked at 1.07 5 gigahertz 8 gigs of RAM MSI z77 AGD 65 bored i used an msi x79 something-or-other DD 65 for LGA 2011 and then I used a crosshair 5 formula for the AMD test bench I'm using an SSD for my boot drive Patriot wildfire and that's pretty much it let's get into the Skyrim results so Skyrim as you can see doesn't really like the 8150 very much and really benefits from better IPC and higher clock speeds as you can see here more than it benefits from multiple cores so the clear winner in this guy is the 3770k due to its overall faster than the other stuff Ness so guys actually I changed my mind about the quick sync and Media encoder media converter 7 results I'm just going to do a general overview of what special about Ivy Bridge and we're going to wrap this one up that's just a performance overview so Ivy Bridge in general what's special new 22 nanometer manufacturing process reasonable overclocking although it does get pretty toasty you're going to want something like a Corsair h 100 or nhat to keep it pretty cool if you want to go over around 4.5 gigahertz performance wise yes it's better than Sandy Bridge I don't have a Sandy Bridge box to represent here it is better than FX however FX has you know some pretty aggressive pricing going on and considering how many cores are included there's something to be said for that and oh yeah right other stuff lucid virtu MVP is supported on the on the similar timeframe released z77 chipset you've also got support for overclocking hyper threading turbo boost as well as better onboard graphics so the better onboard graphics not only effects if you're using onboard graphics but also effects if you are choosing media converter 7 and you're using the IGP in order to convert your media which is like way i'm not going to spoil it but it's way way faster than any other way of doing it especially with the new Ivy Bridge processors using the HD 4000 graphics virtue MVP basically is just a way to use the onboard graphics to improve performance and games alone my experience it didn't make that much of a difference on the spotty consistency of the results of that particular technology made it not that appealing to me the z77 platform with an Ivy Bridge also supports PCI Express 3.0 which means your latest generation 79 hundred series 7800 series and 600 series graphics cards are going to be able to really stretch their legs even if you're using a mainstream platform that only supports 8 X 8 X bandwidth that is equivalent to pcie 2.0 16 X 16 X so thank you for checking out my belated Ivy Bridge 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