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Intel's upcoming Core i7 975 EE benchmarked

did you buy the bundle from ocuk?

if you did - email my trust with your order number and i will mail you one of mine and Locky's guides

are you on air or water?
 
No I bought them before the biostar even appeared on ocuk :( (I had actually suggested it in the new products suggestion thread a while before hehe). I'm using a noctua cooler though. I just want to get an idea of the voltages you're using, mine seems to get very hot when stress testing at 3.8ghz.
 
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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
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The i7 920 out performs the Q9550 in every real world (audio/DAW) test I have seen, especially when you start working at lower latencies. Sometimes by as little as about 10%, sometimes almost doubling it, but many of the tests do only have for running with HT on. Then take into account at how well it overclocks.
 
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
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i7 is Intel's first "true" quad core chip whereas C2Q are basically two Dual's on a single chip, it's also not limited by ancient FSB technology which even AMD have long since ditched.

i7 is certainly better than C2Q even without HT but C2Q is more than sufficient for most things out there at the moment.
 
w3bbo said:
HT is disabled to get higher scores in 3D benchmarks ;).
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not too sure about that, I defintely get a better cpu score with ht enabled on 3dmark 06. Although saying that, the first time I verclocked my computter, I broke 20k with ht disabled and now no matter what I do, I can't do it, even though I now get better cpu scores with ht enabled and lower clock speed.
 
I really don't see the point in this "exteme clocking" bs. They build a system that has to be cooled with liquid nitrogen to basically scrape through a benchmark.

So?

Its not like any of this means anything to regular overclockers using air or water. The new batches of cpu's may clock a little more but id doubt anything that significant on air or water.
 
Gerard said:
I really don't see the point in this "exteme clocking" bs. They build a system that has to be cooled with liquid nitrogen to basically scrape through a benchmark.

So?

Its not like any of this means anything to regular overclockers using air or water. The new batches of cpu's may clock a little more but id doubt anything that significant on air or water.
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Pushing tech to the very limit :) It isn't meant for daily use..
 
Duke said:
Pushing tech to the very limit :) It isn't meant for daily use..
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Yes but again what exactly is the point? If you could push it to the limit and have it be usable 24/7 i can see a point, but this epeen record breaking bs on a system thats barely scraping by being stable is pointless imo.
 
It's just exhibitionism. Nothing more, it's not meant to be practical.

How many people could use a Bugatti Veyron at full speed in the real world? It doesn't matter.
People doing 100s of kickups with a football, can't use that in a match, why bother.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean there is any reason not to do it to push the limit and try and beat other people. If people just sat back and didn't try and push things forwards where would we be?
 
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