CPU gaming benchmarks: i7-860 to i7-3770k clock-for-clock and OC

[guskline]

RussianSensation: Interesting post. With the release of the Trinity and a legit peak at the PileDriver core it doesn't look like the full fledged 8350 PileDriver on Oct 23? will change the landscape much, if at all.

 

[Termie]

Hey all - this is an old thread of mine, and I'm glad there's still interest in it. While I can't do anymore gaming benchmarks due to my 860 now being in a small case, I could do some more cpu benchmarks at 3.5 if there are free and easy to use benchmarking tools people can suggest.

I already learned that IBT is a terrible application to benchmark with.

 

[guskline]

Termie: Thanks for the work you've already done. Outstanding. Funny thing about Intel Burn test. Strange piece of software, but even on my AMD OCs if it can't pass IBT for a 10x run I don't keep that as an OC.

 

[Termie]

Termie: Thanks for the work you've already done. Outstanding. Funny thing about Intel Burn test. Strange piece of software, but even on my AMD OCs if it can't pass IBT for a 10x run I don't keep that as an OC.

Oh, I agree IBT is great for stress testing. I run it every week or so just to make sure my system is stable (and it is). But the output really depends on threads, memory size, etc. It's way too much work to use it as a comparison benchmark.

 

[Lepton87]

he main draw will likely be hitting 5.0ghz overclocks due to Intel moving back to fluxless solder, allowing us to take full advantage of the more mature 22nm node

Source? Some Intel zealots exculpated intel of using a cheap, ineffective TIM instead of solder because of some thermal cycling, like it didn't exist before and just cropped up with IB. All it was about was saving a few bucs, even if that thermal cycling explanations at the most of extreme conditions is true, they could have used solder only on K series CPUs and shorten warranty to 2 or even 1 year. I presume that thermal cycling would be a corner case that would only avoid a few thousands RMAs. I wouldn't have cared if they had shorten I never had a CPU suddenly die on my, only slow degradation which isn't RMA material anyway due to two factors. But they do not care about enthusiasts market, at least not enough to make a truly different CPUs for us and lose some pennies on giving up consolidation of products.
1. You void warranty by overclocking (I've been a victim of insurance fraud for tens of thousands of dollars (easily almost my entire life savings, I live in a poor country where most of us earn at most 1/4th of what you Americans/Canadians do) so I could live with a multibilion dollar company losing a few bucks. Yes, It's me who's the bad guy, evil and all...

2. A degraded CPU almost certainly works at stock frequency so it's not RMA material.


Sorry for my sloppy English it's 1AM here and as you probably gleaned from the quality of my writing, I'm not a native speaker. I wish I could one day speak English as well as you guys but second language is just that, a second language which I don't believe you can ever truly master or even come close to an educated native speaker. Sorry for the OT. I really don't need an another infraction for thread "crapping" but somehow I'm feeling chatty right now.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I love and hate my i7 920 D0s. All three of them do 4GHz at 1.052Vcore (which is fantastic), but won't budge above that unless I throw gobs of voltage at them.

They are certainly starting to feel like my trusty old E6600s @ 3.6GHz