Hardware Intel Core i5-661 & Core i3-530 CPU Review

Was that answer to the Atom with the built in gpu as from the pics ya that did look like one die or were you talking about the i3 because in that one pic it looked like the chip the guy was holding had two dies on it which is why I call it the superglue technique where as whenever AMD release something thats multi anything, its always been native and on a single die. Either way its still an interesting step and another way for Intel to control the market some more and what not.

 

Possibly the wrong site to post that comment

(Although I'm still running socket 939! Shush...)

 

there be no point in testing the onboard GPU as its going to be 16x faster then slow (this is from intel IGP charts), so now its faster then slow but still slow with DX10 support (no dx10.1 or dx11 be pointless thought)

ATI has had DX10.1 parts out for some time now, Nvidia stating that it does not car stance about DX10.1 or as much DX11 as well that be mostly due to the fact none of there cards have it (apart from the lame cards Nvida 240 or lower with DX10.1 that 47xx cards can beat and are cheaper to , re branded 8800gt>9800gt>GTX250>240 with an die shrink and slower clocks Quite sure its like that)

 

Enjoyed the article, nice to see 32nm parts appear on time, however am I the only one with quad-core apathy? Come on Intel, won’t we supposed to have had 10+-core chips by now?

On the graphics side, how do you think the overclocked Q6600, would have faired against the i3 / i5 at a more GPU bottlenecked resolution, such as 1920 x 1200 with AA in a single GPU config?

 

Stated in the article:

Sometimes I wonder if people actually read the articles or just go to the comments to moan about "missing" parts...

 

The Core i3-530 is listed at £85 ex. VAT, not inc, at Overclockers.co.uk.

 

£100. Not tooo bad I suppose, but more than we'd have liked. It's only because supply will be low and demand high for new stuff that OCUK are scraping in their 40-50% margin.

 

The rest of that pricing looks pretty high too. Any chance of some direct comparisons/numbers with the i3-530 and the X2 550 BE? Seems to me that the AMD combo is £140 with Asus M4A785TD-V EVO for IGPU and core unlocking goodness. On OCUK prices the i3-530 is around £180 with the Gigabyte UD2. Perhaps a better upgrade path awaits the P55 board, but for right here, right now budget bang-per-buck, what wins?

 

Sooo... you have a X58 test setup, but no results from any 1366-socket CPUs?

Strange.

 

Not sure how the 530 received a better value rating than the Athlon 620, particularly when factoring in Motherboard cost and the fact that the Athlon is easily overclocked. Cost is further exacerbated when one factors that the Athlon II x4 620 is capable of working with some older AM2 boards, thus not requiring a new MB or ddr3 memory upgrade. Furthermore, the 530 is still a dual-core, and lags behind (if only slightly) the athlon ii x4 in multi-threaded apps, which is made even more noticeable when the Athlon is overclocked. So, can someone elaborate on this?

 

The I3 integrated graphics is not compatible with the coming DirectX 11 upgrade. That scares me.