Nehalem Overclocking @ XS

[Movieman]

I can buy a far cheaper 920/940 chip if i want a 4GHz stable system....

And thats what the vast majority of the looking for.
4000mhz stable.
The machine makes a hell of a lot of computational power at that speed and statisfies maybe 90% of the people even here on this forum.
I know thats not what you want and I appreciate that fact.
I think where the issues come up is that the guys like yourself that have just had one hell of a run with the E8600's at over 6GHz were expecting the same if not more from i7 and it isn't there.
I can see that this is a letdown to the guys like yourself that strive for the very top speeds but the rest of us are happy campers with what we see.
That's why the two totally different viewpoints are seen in this thread.
Just different wants and expectations.
If I were in your shoes I'd pass on the i7 and keep playing with the E8600's at least for now.

[systemviper]

And thats what the vast majority of the looking for.
4000mhz stable.
The machine makes a hell of a lot of computational power at that speed and statisfies maybe 90% of the people even here on this forum.
I know thats not what you want and I appreciate that fact.
I think where the issues come up is that the guys like yourself that have just had one hell of a run with the E8600's at over 6GHz were expecting the same if not more from i7 and it isn't there.
I can see that this is a letdown to the guys like yourself that strive for the very top speeds but the rest of us are happy campers with what we see.
That's why the two totally different viewpoints are seen in this thread.
Just different wants and expectations.
If I were in your shoes I'd pass on the i7 and keep playing with the E8600's at least for now.

Common 4G stable...
and all that thruput

[T_M]

I think where the issues come up is that the guys like yourself that have just had one hell of a run with the E8600's at over 6GHz were expecting the same if not more from i7 and it isn't there.

Actually no, im thinking more w.r.t my more favoured QX series.
4GHz+ on air, 4.2GHz+ on water, 5.5GHz+ on LN2 and 8300points+ in 06 CPU test.
Now we have 965xe which is struggling to even get 5GHz in multi-threaded and the additional processing power netting around 9000points+ CPU test