I make some more fun:
Here I compare a 12600 against an i980 on a x58 Sabertooth board with generic XP SP3.
This x58 board has onboard USB3 (Nec, 214MByte/s RW) and also 6 GByte Sata (Sata3).
Voila, geekbench 2 shows about 14000 points for the 12600 cpu and about 12000 points for the i980 cpu.
Hm, this means nearly no difference in speed in 11 years old cpu
Dietmar
PS: All USB works with the nice win8 driver from @Mov AX, 0xDEAD .