Quote Originally Posted by onex View Post
hmm, i see,
this is quite shocking,
i wonder whether the same chip would run faster cooler.
i've seen these I5's reach 7Ghz here on the forum,
this might be bad news for steve, maybe it would be hard getting the 980 much further from the 4.8 mark on air.
i've heard electronic cicuit runs better on cold temperature, and see now why this 'kid' from the sub-zero cooling section here at the forum is building a 3.5-4.5KW cooling solution,
if a 920 running 4.5 can draw ~300-350? W then i'm not sure if a 980 (stock 3.33) would be able to reach 5 so easily with a 300W cooling mechanism,
taking u'r chip into account, a 3.46Ghz which has to have -101 to reach 5.6, i feel like a fool saying what i did few posts back,
computers are never linear, and thinking this way only comes when u'r unaware of other implications/complications,
this kind of thinking brings u into making many mistakes.

it's never the bigger, the faster, the better, it's all about the small things,
i'm wondering whether there is a way to see things, or approach things differently.

The 32nm dual cores hitting 7GHz wouldn't do much for this benchmark as the would probably need to be around 6.3-6.5GHz stable to run the bench. Where as I can just run my 980x at 5.9GHz+ and easily beat the dual core at 6.5GHz. As far as what Steve will hit on a single stage really depends on the chip some chips scale some don't. I had a few chips on single stage that only ran 5.3-5.4.