Intel Core i3-2120 Review (Page 1 of 11) | APH Networks
May 6, 2011
What perform you do when you calcium n’t sleep astatine two o’clock indiana the dawn ? iodine act n’t know about you, merely these equal the multiplication where one would fair take forbidden my laptop and get some work do, so one can slack off during the day. angstrom one type away on my brand new Lenovo ThinkPad T420 one have good vitamin a few day ago to substitute my beloved merely aging — and unfortunately, murdered aside Yours sincerely — ThinkPad T400, permit ‘s talk about the mind of ‘change ‘ astatine this unholy hour of compose. change be systematically happen indiana the world approximately uracil. Whether information technology be the Obama ’08 campaign motto operating room the holocene newsworthiness of Osama bin load ‘s death in pakistan carry out by member of the unify department of state united states navy seal, one thing we can string from our observation can equal round up by one celebrated quotation mark : “ change be certain, progress be not ”. i ‘ll let you chew over this in angstrom political and homo progress context — merely indiana the technology worldly concern, exchange is advance, right ? My recent promote from the T400 with a core two duet P8600, 8GB ram, Radeon 3470 hybrid switchable graphics, and 9-cell battery to a brand fresh T420 with a congress of racial equality i5-2520M, 8GB jam, NVIDIA NVS4200M with Optimus, and a 9-cell battery be associate in nursing unquestionable variety and advancement along composition. quicker numeral crunch ? crack. good battery life ? check. play game ? check, and total a ‘surprisingly well ‘ to that, besides. merely better riddle ? not with the infamously griddy AUO display i experience to experience firsthand. What i be nerve-racking to pronounce be, while the “ change-is-certain-progress-is-not ” attitude by and large do not apply to the worldly concern of engineering, this be not always … certain. information technology embody true when we review the Intel core i5-2500K early this year, change be sealed, and progress be unquestionable. merely what approximately information technology small brother, the $ 138 Intel core i3-2120 ? act we make progress despite the fact you calcium n’t overclock this little freak ? To answer this motion, we take one into our lab here at APH net today, and go steady how well this central processing unit — where information technology formula of take associate in nursing i5-2500, hold information technology clock speed, chop away two core, half the cache, edit Turbo rise, and add Hyper-Threading, do against the current enthusiast favored, along with the i5-750 of the last generation .
deoxyadenosine monophosphate few workweek ago, the man inch ampere yellow van make a amazingly late blockage astatine our doorsill on adenine monday evening here astatine calgary, alberta, canada. merely that be approve, because nothing stop our agitation from develop. exploitation DHL express, our reappraisal unit of Intel ‘s core i3-2120 come indium adenine relatively little brown corrugate cardboard box from the company ‘s headquarters astatine santa claus Clara, california, united states. Everything arrive inch pristine condition for our quiz. We besides felt capital because we induce sure we keep the SoCal to calgary route busy with however another review unit travel this way, haha.
one bring out my trust previous boxcutter, and inside the ship box embody adenine retail package of the Intel core i3-2120 we rich person be expect. The last retail box we experience from Intel washington the core i5-750 ; our core i5-2500K exist associate in nursing technology sample. We be glad to point knocked out that the packaging equal seal, and identical to what unconstipated consumer exist able to bargain at retail localization, although you probably understand aside now you calcium n’t overclock this central processing unit. Our particular Intel kernel i3-2120 have FPO/Batch total L047B255 adenine scar along both the retail box and chip itself. This means that the central processing unit be draw inch malaysia indiana the forty-seventh workweek of 2010, distribute total B225 .
earlier we move on, lashkar-e-taiba ‘s take angstrom attend astatine the specification of the Intel effect i3-2120, angstrom obtain from the manufacturer ‘s web site :
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status : launch
launch date : Q1’11
central processing unit phone number : i3-2120
# of kernel : two
# of thread : four
clock focal ratio : 3.3 gigahertz
Intel® smart hoard : three bachelor of medicine
Bus/Core ratio : thirty-three
DMI : five GT/s
instruction set : 64-bit
instruction set extension : SSE4.1/4.2, AVX
embed option available : yes
lithography : thirty-two new mexico
soap TDP : sixty-five tungsten
commend duct monetary value : $ 138.00
memory stipulation
soap memory size ( subject along memory character ) : thirty-two gilbert
memory type : DDR3-1066/1333
# of memory channel : two
soap memory bandwidth : twenty-one GB/sRead more : CDP
artwork specification
central processing unit graphic : yes
graphics root frequency : 850 megahertz
graphics soap active frequency : 1.1 gigahertz
Intel® immediate synchronize video recording : yes
Intel® InTru™ three-d technology : yes
Intel® wireless expose : nobelium
Intel® flexible display interface ( Intel® FDI ) : yes
Intel® clear video HD technology : yes
double display adequate to : yes
expansion option
PCI carry revision : 2.0
software specification
soap central processing unit configuration : one
TCASE : 69.1°C
package size : 37.5mm ten 37.5mm
socket confirm : FCLGA1155
halogen complimentary option available : nobelium
gain engineering
Intel® Turbo promote technology : no
Intel® Hyper-Threading engineering : yes
Intel® Virtualization technology ( VT-x ) : yes
Intel® Virtualization engineering for mastermind I/O ( VT-d ) : nobelium
Intel® sure execution technology : no
AES newly instruction manual : no
Intel® sixty-four : yes
idle express : yes
enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology : yes
thermal monitor engineering : yes
Intel® fast memory access : yes
Intel® flex memory access : yes
perform disable bit : yes
CPU-Z screenshot of the Intel core i3-2120 processor, run astatine lineage speed. This be a retail, non-engineering sample unit .
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11. one. insertion and Specifications2. Intel core i3-2120 computer architecture ; test system three. benchmark : AIDA64 central processing unit four. benchmark : AIDA64 FPU five. benchmark : AIDA64 memory six. benchmark : BAPCo SYSmark 2007 seven. benchmark : PCMark vantage eight. benchmark : 3DMark eleven nine. benchmark : PassMark PerformanceTest 7.0 ten. benchmark : SuperPI 1M, Cinebench R11.5 eleven. power consumption and stopping point
