Quote Originally Posted by BenchZowner View Post
By cherry chips we are talking about chips that do well under heavy cold ( LN2, Cascade, Dry Ice ) [ the latter applies to some not so common cases ].
Those chips generally do the same with the average chips on air / water cooling.

Having ( per say ) a 5.5GHz Core i7 and running it at 4 - 4.2GHz on air is a big waste, one way or another, especially if you consider the other options... most of the D0 revision i7's can do 4 to 4.2GHz on air, probably with less voltage as well ( since most cherrypicked i7's are high leakage voltage loving chips ).

I have 2 E8600's that do 4.8GHz 24/7 at approx 1.46V, one of them can bench @ ~6.2GHz on LN2, and the other runs flat out at... 5.9GHz... so, I decided to sell the second E8600, since it's of no use to me.

The same thing applies to this situation ( at least that's my feeling ).
We don't even know what chip it is, besides the fact that it is "cherry". But if it is indeed a 5.5GHz+ Nehalem based processor then yes, I agree completely. It would be a huge injustice to the chip's potential for it to go into a rig for 24/7 usage.