Aydan wrote:
> Have a look at the 800 series of the i7 in the 1156 socket.
> They're just as fast.

http://tinyurl.com/y8bdj8a

For whatever reason, Tom's Hardware only has data for the Core i7 870, 
the most powerful 800-series model. Comparing this against a 900-series 
model with identical clock speed (and several other parameters, as it 
happens) produces this chart.

It seems the 900-series has higher theoretical bandwidth and ALU power, 
and yet on a couple of the benchmarks it gets beaten. But then, if a 
task takes almost 5 minutes to complete, does anybody care about 2 
seconds one way or the other? The long and short of it is that, yes, 
these two CPUs are in fact quite well-matched.

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