Tell me about it. I adopted i7 one week after it's official release (actually less than that, only about 4 days). I did pay less for my i7 940 than some other people paid for it but still, I am extremely pissed over this and will likely never get over it until I move to a new system. But because of the price I paid, I am not planning on moving anytime soon so it looks like I'll be reminded of this for a very long time.Originally Posted by SteveRo
Based on my reading - all this thread, several others and my own experience - I don't think there is anything different between 920, 940 and 965 except the multi locks.
Random chance (maybe week of manufacture?) determines best oc regardless of how much you paid for your i7.
I am not completely happy about this actually.
I personally do not feel that Intel does any sort of binning on these chips.
dejanh already has his os in memory - the os just doesn't know it yet. (SSD)Not just yet, need to move there though soon but put off still by the high price/low capacity of these drives, especially for the really good ones like Intel. The damn HDD is crippling my system performance. Still though not as fast as loading the whole OS into the memory
Finally, a note about lower voltages for higher base clocks/lower multipliers vs. the other way around...
This is strange, and I found this strange from day 1 when I started overclocking i7 back in the beginning of November. Usually having unlocked multipliers means that you can achieve higher clocks with lower voltages and a cooler system as you are not required to overclock basically everything else in the system. However, with i7 this definitely does not seem to be the case. I'd say maybe that is where the problem in differentiating i7 920 from i7 940 from i7 965 really is...multiplier is almost meaningless especially in the case of i7 940 vs. i7 920.
I use the R2E not P6T board. My Turbo settings are located under the Advanced tab in the BIOS, under CPU Configuration option.
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