I am hoping to get some input from you all. I've been waiting and waiting to play around with a 2nd Gen Intel CPU machine and finally got to do so today. It is a Lenovo m91p with i7 Core 2600. This machine has 4GB of RAM, runs Win7x64 and has a 10K WD Velociraptor HDD.
I use Photoshop Lightroom 3 and Photoshop Extended CS5 mostly and I have play with numerous machines in the past and I actually came up with my own way of timing a certain task to give me an idea how fast this "same task" runs on various machines.
To my utter disappointment, this i7 Core 2600 machine runs slower than a i7 870!!! By a lot! Have any of you out there experienced this? I am very puzzled. All the hype about how fast Sandy Bridge is.... and now I am not even sure if I want it.
Thanks in advance for your comments and advice!
I use Photoshop Lightroom 3 and Photoshop Extended CS5 mostly and I have play with numerous machines in the past and I actually came up with my own way of timing a certain task to give me an idea how fast this "same task" runs on various machines.
To my utter disappointment, this i7 Core 2600 machine runs slower than a i7 870!!! By a lot! Have any of you out there experienced this? I am very puzzled. All the hype about how fast Sandy Bridge is.... and now I am not even sure if I want it.
Thanks in advance for your comments and advice!