My performance is more-or-less the same as angelreaper (to name but one) who also used the 25 multi for his i7 970 4.5GHz run. What's more, I have low memory frequency so the throughput just isn't going to be as high. But this thread has nothing to do with performance... it's a frequency club.

And what zoson says is not true at all - his remark that LinX "doesn't really stress" a CPU is about the stupidest thing a person could say in a thread like this - LinX is a monster of a test for any CPU, HT or no HT.

As far as heat output is concerned, this is an interesting one. For starters, nobody can point at a result and say "your temps should be different." That's crass - my temps are what they are; I didn't choose them or make them myself, so how can I be expected to change them?! LOL really... I did read around a bit and found that the linpack library stresses the CPU very differently from Prime95. The Prime95 mindset is a very logical one: more threads equals more heat; however LinX doesn't appear to work like that.

And it's worth mentioning that other people have used very high bclk for their runs, and that will make a chip much hotter due to the necessary increas in VTT.