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Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K review - Hardware and Software Used

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/02/2011 02:00 PM [ 3] 0 comment(s)

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Hardware and Software Used

Now we begin the benchmark portion of this article, but first let me show you our test system plus the software we used.

Mainboard

Intel DH67BL with Core i5 2500K
Intel DP67GB with Core i7 2600K

Processor

Intel Core i5 2500K
Intel Core i7 2600K

Graphics Cards

GeForce GTX 580

Memory

2x4096MB DDR3 1333 MHz CAS9 Corsair Vengeance

Power Supply Unit

BFG 1200 Watt EX (DXX PCIe 2.0 model)

Monitor

Dell 3007WFP - up to 2560x1600

OS related Software

Windows 7 64-bit SP1 (RC)
DirectX 9/10/11 latest End User Runtime
Geforce 263.09 WHQL

Software benchmark suite

SiSoft Sandra
Lavalys Everest
3DMark06
3DMark Vantage
3DMark 11
Handbrake
Medialink Espresso
CineBENCH 11.5
Far Cry 2
Battlefield Bad Company 2

A word about 'FPS'

What are we looking for in gaming performance wise? First off, obviously Guru3D tends to think that all games should be played at the best image quality (IQ) possible. There's a dilemma though, IQ often interferes with the performance of a graphics card. We measure this in FPS, the number of frames a graphics card can render per second, the higher it is, the more fluently your game will display itself.

A game's frames per second (FPS) is a measured average of a series of tests. That test is often a time demo, a recorded part of the game which is a 1:1 representation of the actual game and its gameplay experience. After forcing the same image quality settings; this timedemo is then used for all graphics cards so that the actual measuring is as objective as can be.

Frames per second

Gameplay

<30 FPS

very limited gameplay

30-40 FPS

average yet very playable

40-60 FPS

good gameplay

>60 FPS

best possible gameplay

  • So if a graphics card barely manages less than 30 FPS, then the game is not very playable, we want to avoid that at all cost.
  • With 30 FPS up-to roughly 40 FPS you'll be very able to play the game with perhaps a tiny stutter at certain graphically intensive parts. Overall a very enjoyable experience. Match the best possible resolution to this result and you'll have the best possible rendering quality versus resolution, hey you want both of them to be as high as possible.
  • When a graphics card is doing 60 FPS on average or higher then you can rest assured that the game will likely play extremely smoothly at every point in the game, turn on every possible in-game IQ setting.
  • Over 100 FPS? You have either a MONSTER graphics card or a very old game.

Intel Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K




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