Time To Upgrade: Should You Dump Your 2007 PC?

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Intel agressively promotes its Core i3/i5/i7 series, but we wonder: Does it make sense to replace a three-year old high-end PC? In the end, quad-core processors were already pretty powerful in 2007. We created a brand new system and a 2007 PC to compare.

Benchmark Results: Synthetics

Synthetic benchmarks typically reveal the raw performance capabilities of components or systems, but they often have only limited meaning in real-life applications. Looking at these results, we can see that performance has basically doubled on average between 2007's 2.66 GHz Kentsfield-based Core 2 and this year's 2.93+ GHz Lynnfield-based Core i7.

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos