Quote Originally Posted by zoson View Post
I'm not expecting 2011 to do any better OC than 1155. Same architecture + more cores = more heat and more volts required for similar clockspeeds.
2011 socket seem best in OC,

Today, we just witnessed an overclocked LGA2011 processor. The processor runs on the Intel X79 Express chipset mainboard with a regular heatsink. We observe the temperature at IDLE, it reads around 45 degrees.

A check on the CPU monitor shows that the CPU is running at a multiplier of 41X with CPU CLK set to 120MHz. This gives us a reading of 4.92GHz. The memory was running DDR3-2400 at CAS 10. CPU Vcore was 1.51v.

From the readings, it looks like the new Core i7 would be a pretty good overclocker. Who cares about LN2 when you can achieve such high speeds even on AIR. The retail processor should do better
http://en.ocworkbench.com/tech/intel...g-5ghz-on-air/