Intel's upcoming Core i7 975 EE benchmarked

explicit4u · 3 Feb 2009 at 13:51

Fugger gets the first honours

It seems like Intel is getting one step closer to unleashing its second Extreme Edition Core i7 processor within the near future, as well known overclocker Fugger has posted some early benchmarks and overcklocking results for the Core i7 Extreme Edition 975 which comes clocked at a default speed of 3.33GHz.

Although this is hardly a huge step up from the current 965XE part which is clocked at 3.2GHz, the new 975XE seems to overclock much better. Using a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme motherboard, Fugger managed to push the 975XE D0 engineering sample at 5259MHz without any problems and with the help of a pair of Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards, him and his partner Mikeguava managed to break 47,000 in 3DMark 05 which is a new world record.

It's likely that Fugger will achieve even higher scores with this CPU given time and it looks like all the overclockers out there will have a new toy to play with in due time. As there are other chips in circulation already, we'd expect more benchmark results to pop up over the next few weeks.

The new enthusiast CPU is ready to be launched in Q2, and more specifically is rumored for launch in June. All in all, it looks like these two overclockers can enjoy their world record for a few more months before the free-for-all begins.

You can find the results and more details of the test setup here

Hairboi · 3 Feb 2009 at 14:01

5.3ghz O_O

555BUK · 3 Feb 2009 at 16:52

EE = ££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££

Ging3r · 3 Feb 2009 at 17:14

The people who will have bought the 965, will now feel they want the best and go buy the 975, Just more money for Intel

Van Diemen · 3 Feb 2009 at 19:07

Could result in a price drop on the current i7 SKUs

Stu · 3 Feb 2009 at 19:48

explicit4u said:
Fugger gets the first honours

Although this is hardly a huge step up from the current 965XE part which is clocked at 3.2GHz, the new 975XE seems to overclock much better. Using a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme motherboard, Fugger managed to push the 975XE D0 engineering sample at 5259MHz without any problems and with the help of a pair of Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards, him and his partner Mikeguava managed to break 47,000 in 3DMark 05 which is a new world record.
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I wonder if this bodes well for the soon to be released 920 D0 stepping?

Ranger07 · 3 Feb 2009 at 20:19

Interesting he only has it on 4 threads, HT disabled.

Lightnix · 3 Feb 2009 at 20:21

Stu said:
I wonder if this bodes well for the soon to be released 920 D0 stepping?

Hopefully so, I'm also hoping that it'll push the prices down on the Core i7 line. With any luck, they'll discontinue the 965 and bring in a standard edition '960' where the 940 is now and push everything else down a price segment.

Also, on another forum, loads of people were assuming the D0 stepping was just being introduced to cripple the 920 (as it was only reported for that CPU at the time). :rolleyes:

Stu · 3 Feb 2009 at 22:39

Lightnix said:
Also, on another forum, loads of people were assuming the D0 stepping was just being introduced to cripple the 920 (as it was only reported for that CPU at the time).

To be fair, the same thought had crossed my mind, as the 920 must be taking the bulk of the i7 market and making the 940 redundant. However, maybe they have sold so many 920s that they are starting new runs that may as well use the latest silicon/stepping.

AWPC · 3 Feb 2009 at 22:59

965XE already does 3.33Ghz as standard with the Turbo Mode enabled anyway, also check out his volts. 1.5 is a lot and most people will never use anywhere near this amount.

Tweaker · 4 Feb 2009 at 00:57

Intel is releasing 2 more CPUs called the 950 and 960 clocked at 3.06 and 3.2 ghz both with 4.80 GT/s, so i guess they will have the new stepping as well and replace the 965 and 940.

Spectator · 11 Feb 2009 at 19:30

Im curious to see if they change the contacts on the top of these new CPU's.

I still cant shake the feeling all I7 are the same and those contacts are used to program/re-program stock as required

If someone sorted that challenge Intel would be forced to change things. So this could be pre-emptive?

VARDY · 11 Feb 2009 at 19:43

looks like we will be seeing some higher overclocks when these are released

RIZZEE · 11 Feb 2009 at 19:56

impressive

Adam123 · 14 Feb 2009 at 01:15

My Intel P4 is running at more than that on Air :O

Locky · 14 Feb 2009 at 08:33

Ranger07 said:
Interesting he only has it on 4 threads, HT disabled.

yep no skill in that what so ever, I can get a 920 to run at over 5ghz with HT turned off in the Bios-Star board and run a few benchmarks, no where near prime stable though.

RaiderX · 14 Feb 2009 at 08:35

if your not going to use HT, may aswell buy a core 2 quad as thats basically all it is with no HT

rjk · 14 Feb 2009 at 17:37

fugger is fail

get him to do it with HT on then i will give a damn

anyone can overclock the hell out of a super cherry picked 'show off sample'

more to the point - unlocked multipliers mean only one thing...

fisher price overclocking
any noob can overclock an extreme chip with next to no effort

the point of overclocking is to take a slow chip and to make it fast

im sure the new i7 will be fantastic and overclock to 200GHz

but i would like to see fugger sat down in front of a non cherry picked pentium dual core on a p5q and pc2 6400 ram and see what he can get that to

rjk · 14 Feb 2009 at 17:39

RaiderX said:
if your not going to use HT, may aswell buy a core 2 quad as thats basically all it is with no HT

then there is this...

rjk · 14 Feb 2009 at 17:39

Locky said:
yep no skill in that what so ever, I can get a 920 to run at over 5ghz with HT turned off in the Bios-Star board and run a few benchmarks, no where near prime stable though.

not in the breadbin of fail you cant!!!

nice sig btw! lol