Firstly, we must apologize for taking so long for the SandyBridge review. Changing all the benches to Windows 7 SP1, testing with with various benches and determining which to use took some time. If you have any suggestions to improve it, please let us know.

Let's get started and check out what the new CPUs can do.

Testbed:
Motherboard:
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 (B2) (provided by Gigabyte)
Intel P67
ASRock 890GX Extreme 3 (provided by ASRock)
AMD 890GX/SB850
MSI P55-GD65 (provided by MSI)
Intel P55

CPU:
Intel Core i3-2100T (provided by Mindfactory)
Intel Core i5-750, i5-2500K, i7-2600K (provided by Intel)
AMD Phenom II X4 840/X6 1100T (provided by AMD)

CPU-Cooler:
Scythe Mugen 2 (provided by Scythe-Europe)

Memory:
G.Skill Eco 4GB Kit PC3-12800 (provided by G.Skill)
1333MHz CL7-7-7-20 CR1T 1.35V

Graphics Card:
AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB (provided by)

Power supply:
Enermax Modu87+ 500W

Hard disk:
Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 60GB (provided by Mushkin)

Case:
Cooler Master Stacker 831 Lite (zur Verfügung gestellt von CoolerMaster)

OS:
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64