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Intel® Core™ i7 Processor - Vanilla vs Extreme Question

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

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Hello guys,

looking for a little info please . . . I'd like to know if Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme chips perform better clock-for-clock than a regular Intel® Core™ i7 chip? . . . I'm aware the more pricier Extreme chips have an unlocked CPU multiplier to make overclocking easier (similar to the AMD® Black-Edition right?) but I wondered if there was any other differences apart from that?

[Question]

Out of the two chips below . . . if the mutiplier wasn't altered and all other hardware was the same would the Extreme processor perform any faster? . . . I checked the offical Intel® webpages here and here and noticed that apart from the unlocked multiplier the Extreme chip has a 33% higher default QPI Speed? . . . would this be something that perhaps was so small that you would need a benchmark to "observe" it or does an increased QPI speed provide a noticable boost in performance over the vanilla Intel® Core™ i7? . . . I suspect not but it's always good to ask a question instead of making an assumption! :)

This is a "theoretical" question please so "theoretical" answers to this question would be great! . . . thanks in advance for any feedback that helps me answer the question above! :cool:

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[Not my Question]

Who buys an Extreme Processor not to overclock!
 
Why does the 965 have a higher QPI speed and how would it affect the effective performance? Doesn't answer your question but that's the only diff between the 2 that I can see.
 
Never saw this thread. :) As far as I'm aware Higher QPI comes with very little gain on single socket boards. It's more for dual socket motherboards where bandwidth is shared back and forth between sockets and the chipset.

Main gain of the extreme over the vanilla is just the unlocked multiplier, as the QPI between the cpu and chipset makes no\little difference
 
i just had a call from the police

i am sending them round to your house to find out why your 980X is running at stock.

they sounded very very cross
 
To be honest, there's no point overclocking it. If i had one, I'd not do it either, Not until i started to see it struggle. At which point i'd start clocking it
 
wannabedamned said:
To be honest, there's no point overclocking it. If i had one, I'd not do it either, Not until i started to see it struggle. At which point i'd start clocking it
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To be honest again. I wished I'd kept my i7 975 EE, the 980X is just two extra cores. But selling it paid a chunk towards the 980X.

Whilst the vast majority of PC games are ported from crappy consoles, it isn't even going to make an i5, i7 CPU struggle. I don't see no console getting any where near an i5,i7 for at least two years at the earliest.
 
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