Originally Posted by
ziddey
you have a very special e6600, and you're failing to see that most everyone else doesn't have as good a chip as that. in your case, definitely stick to your e6600.
as for es not being representative of the production models, it's already been well established. that said, from preliminary looks of production samples, e6850's are performing similarly to es models, and the lower models are suffering. personally, i had a e6750 l719a hit 8x400=3.2 with 1.37v actual under load. 8x420 wouldn't even stabilize with 1.5v, so it looks indeed like it hit a sharp wall somehow.