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I don’t know what to do!

mayebaza

mayebaza

mayebaza

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My move from AMD to Intel has been a great, but I do miss the hyper threading in Photoshop when dealing with large files with something else start running in the background.

My plan was to upgrade my CPU to i7-3770K. I currently have a sweet overclocker 2500K running quietly at 4.8 and can benchmark at 5.2 on air. From what I have read, for me, Ivy would be a sideways move and a 5-10% upgrade at best. So, do I try and get my hands on a good over clocking i7-2700K before they start going up in value, or wait for the second batch of i7-3770K. Hopefully by then Intel would have resolved the interface TIM issue thing?

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why not go my route and hope it actually happens the way I hope it will.

3820 with cheap board and ram with good cooler then wait 12 months for an 8 core processor that will be a proper step up. Plus dunno if it's just me but I'm totally noob with overclocking and plopped this to 4.75-5.0ghz within one evening with the chip. The 3820 was from ocuks current batch.
 
bemaniac said:
why not go my route and hope it actually happens the way I hope it will.

3820 with cheap board and ram with good cooler then wait 12 months for an 8 core processor that will be a proper step up. Plus dunno if it's just me but I'm totally noob with overclocking and plopped this to 4.75-5.0ghz within one evening with the chip. The 3820 was from ocuks current batch.
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I'm interested in how you managed or wish to manage to get a 4.7Ghz-5Ghz clock on a 3820 that has a locked multiplier value of 43.
 
Clav said:
Because it's not locked to 43? 4.7-5 may be a bit ambitious but 4.3 - 4.5 has been reported without much trouble.
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-391-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1672

- Core Size: 32nm
- Socket: LGA2011
- Quad Core
- Frequency: 3.60GHz (3.90GHz TURBO)
- Multiplier: 36x (Upto 43x available)
- L2 Cache: 4x 256KB
- L3 Cache: 10MB
- TDP: 130W
- Heatsink & Fan NOT INCLUDED!
- 3yr Warranty
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sorry up to 43x available? that seems pretty locked to me.
 
It is locked to 43, but you up the bclk to 125 and you have a pretty decent speed :)

Reviews seem to get 5ghz no problems!
 
Ollie1132 said:
What did you have before you moved to Intel? moving to a 2700k would be as much a sideways move as going IB would be for you.
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AMD 955 BE(C2)@ 3.92GHz with 12GB DDR3-1600. Through neglect by my niece, it requires multiple updates every three months, this old chip performs this task much better than my 2500K.
 
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