Originally posted by: ganesh1
i surely would like to look at the faces of the sorry suckers who bought a 3.0 ghz chip for 999$$
) muahahahahahahha
I'm fairly certain those folks don't see it as having bought a 3
.2GHz chip (965 = 3.2GHz
)...they see it as having bought a >4GHz chip that requires some BIOS work upon installation.
Conceptually not too different from installing DDR3-2000 ram but the system defaults it to DDR3-1333 SPD settings until you go into the BIOS and set it to your liking.
When I bought my QX6700 I never viewed it as being a 2.66GHz chip purchase. From the beginning my mental frame of reference always viewed it as a 3.7GHz chip (meaning I felt entitled to achieve that overclock as a minimum, and I hit 3.73GHz and was quite satisfied).
Were I to buy an i7 system today my decisions would NOT be "do I get the 2.66GHz chip for $290 or the 3.2GHz chip for $1000?"...rather my decision matrix would be "do I get the 3.6-3.8GHz 920 for $290 or the 4.2-4.6GHz 965 for $1k?".
Although in my case the clockspeeds would be a little more disparate as I am a phase user, so while my 920 clocks would still be bclock limited to around 3.8GHz regardless of cooling my 965 would likely reach closer to 5GHz at -40C thanks to the unlocked multis.
If someone has the dough to buy a 965 system but doesn't care to clock it above stock clocks then trust me they don't need our pity, they are flyin thru life in a pretty stress free relaxed lifestyle. I'm pretty sure Brittany Spears has the absolute best computer money can buy, and I'm pretty sure it is not overclocked, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't need us to feel any pity for her suffering with an over-priced under-clocked computer
She'll get by. Lord I would love to (a) have the money, and (b) have so little demands on my time that I could buy extreme chips and run them at stock settings just because I can
(apologies in advance for making a Britney Spears analogy, I feel...sullied...just a little.)