Intel Core i7-870 Lynnfield Processor
SuperPI is the benchmark of choice for many overclockers. It’s lightweight to download and can give a quick indication on how good a system is at number crunching. Once again, testing was performed a total of 5 times, with an average being calculated from the middle three results.
PassMark is a popular benchmarking suite which test all aspect of PC hardware.The CPU test examines Mathematical operations, compression, encryption, SSE, 3DNow! instructions and more. Each CPU test was performed a total of 5 times, with an average being calculated from the middle three results.
In the above tests, the i7-870 was clearly the highest performing CPU thanks in part to the 2.93GHz clockspeed. These results would no doubt increase significantly were I to apply the massive overclock this CPU is capable of. One should however bear in mind that the i7-870 is the range topper in it’s class as opposed to the i7-920 which sits itself on the bottom rung of the ladder. That said the flagship AMD Core lagged way behind the competition in this run of benchmarks which shows, for now at least, Intel still hold all the aces.
