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Francois Piednoel (Dr Who?) is Intel employee and already told here that "I am not even sure that it will be called 975".

You are sure about 975 but Intel employee is not.. very interesting..



Current 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark06 and 3DMark05 world records are all done with such an engineering sample Core i7 CPUs that current retail Core i7 CPUs cannot match.




We benched that CPU and other CPUs in Chicago, Las Vegas and back home on motherboards with AM2+ socket and DDR2 memory. We published our first AM3 + DDR3 results last monday when NDA was lifted.
Quote Originally Posted by Sampsa View Post


Race has been on since 1999 and it will continue more likely another +10 years:



Being on top needs constant upgrades to your system. At one point it is ATI graphics card which can get the highest result and next it is NVIDIA. 3 years ago everyone used Athlon 64 platform but last couple of years it has been Intel dominating the scene. It has been always like that and will be.

Basically what we all need here in XtremeSystems are high-leakage chips which are out of spec for normal retail CPUs. I hope both Intel and AMD would introduce "Overclocking edition" of their CPUs and make use of those silicon dies which are currently being thrown away as "bad" ones, they are perfect for overclocking and reaching high frequencies:





Everyone would be happy here, but it is just a dream.
Just repeating ...

well, and the race is on 3DMark vantage now ... and with CPU from the stores
Sorry, I understand that you have few special chips ... so do I, Fugger showed he could get the 3DMark05 WR, it was very simple ... the instruction per clock advantage of Core i7 is so big that it comes easy.

Those scores will not validate anymore, as the big majority of XS members requested last months, after we did beat your scores. Thanks for not changing your opinion again.

Francois, World Record of 3DMark vantage ... just kidding :-P