Legit Processor Reviews

Intel Unveils Sandy Bridge: Core i7 2600K, i5 2500K, i5 2400, i3 2100 CPUs

Manufacturer: Intel
Product: Core i3, Core i5, Core i7
Date: Sun, Jan 02, 2011 - 11:05 PM
Written By: Brian Wallace -
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Microsoft Excel 2010

Microsoft Office Excel 2010 is a powerful and widely used tool with which you can create and format spreadsheets, and analyze and share information to make more informed decisions. It allows you to import, organize and explore massive data sets within spreadsheets and then communicate your analysis with professional-looking charts. Excel 2010 also provides tools to “see” important trends and find exceptions in your data.

The Black-Scholes model is used to calculate a theoretical call and put price using the five key determinants of an option's price: stock price, strike price, volatility, time to expiration, and short-term (risk free) interest rate. The workload is execution of approximately 300,000 iterations of Monte Carlo simulation using the Black-Scholes basic option pricing formula in Microsoft Excel 2010. In addition, the workload uses Excel lookup functions to compare the put price from the model with the historical market price for 50,000 rows to understand the convergence. The input file is a ~70 MB spreadsheet.

Excel 2010

Intel is dominant in this Excel benchmark with the Core i7 2600K taking the top spot here. Notice how close the Core i5 2500K and i5 2400 are to the 4 core 8 thread Core i7 875K! The Core i3 2100 is right on the heels of the QX6700 CPU. Keep in mind that the i3 2100 processor uses 49w less at idle and 112w under load than the QX6700!

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Review Index
Page 1 - Enter Intel Sandy Bridge Processors
Page 2 - Architecture Improvements, Turbo Boost 2.0, and AVX
Page 3 - The Lineup, Intel Core i3, i5, and i7
Page 4 - Intel Core i3 2100, i5 2400, i5 2500K, i7 2600K
Page 5 - Intel DP67BG Burrage Motherboard and Intel BXXTS100H CPU Cooler
Page 6 - Power Consumption
Page 7 - The K-Series and Overclocking
Page 8 - Sandy Bridge Overclocking: How To
Page 9 - Test Setup
Page 10 - SiSoft Sandra 2011b
Page 11 - wPrime
Page 12 - Microsoft Excel 2010
Page 13 - x264 HD Encoding
Page 14 - Handbrake
Page 15 - Sony Vegas 10
Page 16 - Cinebench 11.5
Page 17 - 7-Zip
Page 18 - iTunes 10
Page 19 - Folding@home
Page 20 - Left 4 Dead 2
Page 21 - Starcraft II
Page 22 - FIFA 2011
Page 23 - Final Thoughts & Conclusion