EPTSome interesting notes:
- Overall, the ivy bridge ran a LOT cooler - didn't bother looking at the CPU temps, but the GPU temps for the i3 were averaging 63C and never went above 65C even under 100% load, while the i5 managed to hit 94C! max and averaged above 80C in SC2. Not sure how much of this is due to architecture and how much to the clean fans on the brand new i3.
- The Ivy Bridge also consistently used a lot less power - on average, the i3 GPU power consumption hovered around 5-8W, while the i5 were hitting 15W and averaging 12-14W.
- Both the i3 and i5 didn't max out on the dynamic GPU core clock in sc2 but did so in Oblivion, they were running at 600-800mhz in SC2 while pretty much hit their respective max. core clocks in Oblivion (950mhz and 1150mhz for the i3 and i5, respectively). Also, the GPUs were rarely under 100% load in SC2, both were hovering around a 40-80% load most of the time.
- The i5, with turbo boost, was flashing between 2.9ghz and 2.7ghz in SC2, so I guess that's the CPU pushed to the limit and adjusting between high demand single-threaded calculations and multi-threaded tasks while the i3 sat at a constant 2396mhz.
Meh, I gotta say I'm pretty disappointed, was hoping for a slight framerate boost in games with the x230i. Thanks for all the help.
