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Sandy Bridge Pentium reviews....

lathode said:
Better than the Sandy Bridge Celeron.

edit: My bad, was too eager to be a smart ass ;) Didn't realize they were continuing the Pentium name with SB.


http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=53491
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=53422

Looks pretty similar to the i3 except for a slower clock speed and less advance options for media playback/encoding.
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It should - as it's the replacement for the old Pentium/Celeron DC, which are finally going away along with LGA775 itself.. The issues with multimedia playback/encoding are largely related to the chipset chosen for the review piece - H61. H61 is, like G41 before it, a low-end chipset/CSM chipset. If you want better multimedia playback without losing features, both Z68 and H67 are better chipset choices. While Celeron DC/Pentium DC were gimped C2Ds, Pentium-Gs are, in fact, gimped i3s. While i3 *does* have better performance than the G, it also doesn't cost enough less than i5 to justify purchasing it instead of the quad-core i5, despite HTT's presence in the dual-core i3. (Genuine quad-core beats 2 physical + 2 virtual performancewise, all else being equal.)

That's the other reason that Pentium-G makes sense, in fact - it uses the same LGA as the rest of Sandy Bridge (1155); therefore, as both Pentium Dual-Core and Celeron Dual-Core before it, it makes for a great *placeholder* CPU while waiting for prices to drop on i5, if not i7. (And with LGA1155 hanging around another year, price cuts there will happen - it's all a question of when, and by how much.)
 
You have heard the term name recognition that is why the Intel® Pentium® processors are still being produced. There are places in the world where saying that you have a Pentium processor means more than you would believe. This is the reason we still make a Pentium processor otherwise we would be happy with the Intel Core i3 (entry level), i5 (mainstream user), and i7 (enthusiast/power user).

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team
 
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