What's so good about a Sandybridge?

[CosmicCommander]

I've recently been saving up to build a PC, and as of late have been challenged by advocates of the new "sandybridge" CPU architecture that I should immediately rewrite my plans in favour of this seemingly "ok" processor.

So, what the hell are the benefits of a Sandybridge over other processors?

 

[Ves]

i have a sandy bridge processor and it kicks total ass.

see for yourself http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=88

 

[Awwent]

Faster, less energy consumption and did I mention faster?

 

[deejay]

sandy bridge master race reporting in

 

[Mud]

Sandy wat?

 

[Arzalis]

Ridiculous over-clocking mainly. Not to mention, both of them are good, fairly priced CPUs even with stock speeds.