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Re:Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2 by Gladdyu on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @01:54PM (#9931186)
It's too bad they haven't included actual performance comparisons. The Celeron (from '06) running at ~8GHz will most definitely be outperformed by any modern i7 running at stock speeds.
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Re:Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2 by Eiriksmal on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @03:07PM (#9931642)
In what kinds of tasks? Single-thread performance has increased very slowly since the Core 2 Duo era. 8GHz is blazing-fast, even for an "old" processor.

eg. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1335

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Re:Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2 by zokier on Thursday July 23, 2015 @05:36AM (#9934759)
I would put my money on the i7: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1260?vs=93
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