Quote Originally Posted by BringerOdeath View Post
I might have to do the same....Did they cross ship to you? My CPU gives me very low scores in benchmarks with HT on. My CPU scores are only 200 points higher in 3dmark with HT on and my shader scores nosedive....This happens even at stock speeds. If I turn Ht off I get huge gains although my CPU score stays at about 6500.....
Yes, they cross-shipped. It only takes 2-3 business days. I discussed my problems with the Intel tech first and he almost immediately said that it sounds like there is a cache problem on my chip and that I should RMA it. It took a few days to sort things out initially because I was doing this over the holidays, but after the holidays were done everthing was finished in 2 business days.

Honestly though, I am not sure that your chip is faulty. Getting the i7 920 to 4.0GHz+ is very good, and not a lot can do this. You just think that they can because all people that post on this forum go for the extreme OCs. A more realistic target for the i7 920 is 3.8GHz - 4.0GHz. As you can go past that you are okay.

The whole business with 3DMark06 may have to do with the OS more than anything. Are you running it in Vista or XP and do you have all service packs installed? 06 exhibits some strange behavior in Vista (at least Vista 64-bit) so I do not tend to run it in Vista. I tend to stick to XP for 06.

Also, keep in mind that 06 is quite old so anomalies are to be expected when running on newer hardware.