Intel to Retaliate to AMD Phenom II Overclocking Feat, Plans Demonstration at CES '09

[Leeghoofd]

I think this is what we should do BUT in Germany a lot of guys are complaining you will never find a retail i7 chip doing that. I think that's more the problem of the things you just showed. it is simply a 1:100.000 chance beeing able to reproduce that and I think only few overclocks had this kind of "cherry-picking" until now. 1:100 or even 1:1000 is fine for me but I think these results are based of something far behind. correct me if I'm wrong of course
And if it comes out AMD's chip in the demonstration short before is the same they will have a lot of guys complaining as well.
I say we should not make overclocking based on such cherry picked pieces, even it is fun to see. We should still compare retail chips with each other...

Well indeed good point, we still have to compare what the big crowd finds in the shops... I seem to recall a Phenom on air at 3ghz on display, while still most peeps can hardly hit that with better cooling then that crappy stock cooler used then... And now many peeps are reversing this back on Intel because Dr WHO is suspicious about the results being leaked... And the fact that he told us something about cherry picking...
C'mon guys this is somehow part of marketing...Just use plain logic here : if you are aware that the competition in the boot next to you can produce big numbers, would you just open a boxed CPU and let her rip... no way you want to equal that or better that.

That's what makes PC's fun , the competition and rivalry makes these rigs faster and faster... sometimes at a pace that my wallet absolutley not can dig lol

It's nice to see the big shots fight it out. But you, me and him will get good CPU's, but the luck to get one of these is pretty low... no matter if the prices evolve in the right manner we will have plenty of power to mess with even if it's an AMD or Intel product...

I'll await real numbers done on watercooling or so by the masses... 4Ghz and more on an I7 for folding seems to be amasing to me...

Bring it on !!!
Like said before 2009 might be very interesting with new CPU's and GPU's being released with promises of big leaps in performance