Quote Originally Posted by Petra View Post
I just realized that your i3 at 3.5GHz was churning out more PPD than my E8400 at 3.6GHz... by several thousand points.

That's pretty impressive (then again, I haven't been keeping track of the i3's/i5's).
Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised for an $85 chip.
It's also undervolted by 2 notches in bios.
I've never tried to push it but it runs very cool (stock heatsink no less) so I'd imagine it could do better.

My i7-860 on the other hand won't overclock at all.
Even bclck of 140 at stock volts isn't stable.
Does vastly better with turbo disabled of course but I'm not willing to do that since it works so well for daily use.

The i3s, if you didn't know, do not have turbo.
The dual-core i5s do but they're so much more expensive I'm not sure what Intel is thinking the market for them might be.