Intel’s next-gen Sandy Bridge platform (1155) has received plenty of attention over the last few weeks as images of it have been strewn across the web thanks to Computex 2010. But today we finally have a little more info to go with those specs. Coolaler was able to get their mitts on an engineering sample to glean some much sought after benchmark-age off of it. As hardware/PC builders have probably already gathered, the tested model — which ran at 2.5GHz and...

2 cores? What is this, 2005? 4 cores? Still yesterday’s news. 6-cores? Now we’re talkin’. In the mad race to the top of the processor heap, once achieving the fastest clock speed came and went with manufacturers moving their focus from speed to cores, the processor scene was upped multiple notches. What started as dual core and then progressed to quad-core would ultimately lead to the next logical advancement — 6-core. Such is the beast that...