First off great thread and awesome info!! Thanks for the heads up, I will definitely be getting a 965.... just gotta do a fire sale here and drop all the S775 stuffz (like 6 mobos and 11 cpus lol!). Got plenty of DDR3 ready..


Quote Originally Posted by Slovnaft View Post
Wow thanks for that clockspeed data. 5.5ghz 3d stable already? i'll def be splurging on a 965. can't wait to see those results, i wonder whether 5.5ghz i7 run will beat out a 6.5ghz E86 run on benches that don't value multithreadedness as much as 06?
Should be pretty close... Nehalem is supposed to be about 15% faster clock per clock (right?)... So the maths:

5500Mhz x .15 = 825

5500 + 825 = 6325Mhz equivalent E8600

But quad cores have some advantages in non threaded benches also since you can run certain process on certain cores thereby distributing the load. Not too mention by disabling a core or 2 you should be able to gain more Mhz...