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Core I7 Question

As everyone has said, get the 920 and oc it. I have mine at 3.3Ghz atm. Will push it further when i sort out some decent cooling.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
is your G skill ram stable? i had sets replaced numerous times in the past and never got them stable at rated speeds.
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I've not had any issues with the ram so far. I've kept the ram at stock speed while overclocking though, not sure how it will fair when pushed.
 
Wait until next December for Westmere - the new 32nm die-shrink of Nehelam. It will be well worth it, by that type Socket 1366 boards will be cheaper substantially and DDR3 tri-channel will also have come down. Take it from an ex-insider :)
 
Stu said:
From reading around, many are hitting or getting close to 4GHz with a 920, but hardly anyone is breaking this ceiling. The Extreme editions are going higher, but are typically topping out at 4.2GHz... so not much better.
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Yeah. And a lot of those 3.8 - 4.0 clocks are not stable. Most seem to have HTT turned off, and/or other performance hits. Essentially slowing the processor down to get a higher clock rating.

I'm not bashing that at all. There's a great deal of enjoyment to be obtained from getting every last mhz out of the CPU. But it's only fair to go in with your eyes open.
 
magpie1966 said:
so what is the max , normal operation out of the 965 extreme?
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Well, there won't be one. Every chip varies, and every setup varies.

It's a new platform and it'll take a while before the motherboard BIOSs are updated to get optimum clocks from these.

I'm also afraid I've not followed it enough to get a good idea of it. There's an i7 overclocking thread on the forums started by good old Jokester, which I will be watching. Hopefully we'll be able to find out what people are getting from them.
 
Thanks, its just reletive to te question, is it worth spending the extra,

I'm gonna Water cool it , when a good block comes out, so I'm seeing what people think,
but I haven't upgraded for a long time and been saving up and the notes are burning into me, so the Extreme water cooled, Another question slighlty off subject, is there a
mach type cooling system on the horizon ? any one know?
 
magpie1966 said:
Thanks, its just reletive to te question, is it worth spending the extra,

I'm gonna Water cool it , when a good block comes out, so I'm seeing what people think,
but I haven't upgraded for a long time and been saving up and the notes are burning into me, so the Extreme water cooled, Another question slighlty off subject, is there a
mach type cooling system on the horizon ? any one know?
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The Extreme is really not money well spent unless you are into oc competitions. Spending the money on SSD drives or better GFX will give you a faster overall system.
 
I don't think that the difference is significant in real world use. Certainly not enough to justify the price difference.
 
ffallic said:
Think you got yourself a little mixed up. The pound dropping is making things more expensive over here.
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No it's not, the pound is rising against the dollar which of course lowers prices at your end, while both currencies are dropping against the danish currency, which makes it all great for me ;)
 
mmj_uk said:
Does the higher internal memory bandwidth of the i940 onwards make any significant difference?
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Only in real powerfully multithreaded applications, which is general about the i7, it doesn't shine completely unless it gets to go full steam ahead on multithreaded programs. The 32nm shrink should be extremely interesting, waiting for that one.
 
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