Stock is only 2.8ghz though. Do you want to me test at 3.4ghz too?![]()
Seems fairly linear, slight advantage to a higher OC. 144 point improvement for 600 mhz (2.8 to 3.4). 310 points improvement for 1100mhz (3.4 to 4.5).
Read my edit. QPI link speed is higher, I think it gives it more points with a higher OC.
I know I looked too lol. Weird.
BTW, I picked up an I7 920 but I need to get a board.
I feel sad now. My Q8300 is being beaten by a freaking Pentium. Mind you, the Pentium was running at 4.4GHz.
The G6950 is extremely underrated. It's an I3 without HT, most people don't realize that. They run extremely cool and overclock like crazy. I was running the STOCK cooler for this benching, and even at 4.5ghz load voltage was 1.425v I only topped out at 70c core temps.
Temps were not even maxxed out anyway, still had 30c of room.
I figured out that the board is actually topping out on the base clock. It's a cheap H55 board. 218 was max. I could probably tweak some things to get higher but I just don't feel like it.