Quote Originally Posted by sonofander View Post
I concur...

I went and returned my 965 and exchanged it for a 920.
My max stable oc on the 965 was 4.3 and guess what my max stable oc on the 920 is... Give up?

4.3

Guess for me the 965 was just a waste of money since I can do the exact same thing with my 920. With the exact same volts by the way.
All I know is 4.3 for $320 is WAY better than 4.3 for $1150. Seriously

And my ram, qpi and uncore speeds are almost identical to what they were on my 965 4.3 overclock.
So lost 200 pts on everest read, write and copy but I put $700 back in my pocket...
no brainer, huh?

Anyway, it's funny how context is so important. I was really dissapointed in a 4.3 clock on the 965 but I'm thrilled with the same clock on the 920
And you put in context too that you can't seem to use memory @ a frequency much then 1600, because after that you'll have to sacrifice CPU OC in order to get more mem speed. And because with high qpi speed and uncore speed 920 don't seem to get stable, you most likely won't hit ddr2000.
But for what you said, you are indeed correct.