Quote Originally Posted by Boulard83 View Post
This seems exact. My tipical 24/7 oc is around 4.2 to 4.4ghz but i like to bench sometime and being stuck at 4.6-4.8ghz with a high end air is bad VS a 2500/2600K that can reach 5ghz on air. Even Water dont seems to really help with IB, you need exotic cooling to get more mhz.
Wait wait wait, frequency isn't everything. If it was we'd all be on Cedar Mill and Bulldozer. 4.55 GHz on IB = 5.00 GHz on SB in 3DMark11 with Lucid OFF. 2D doesn't show the gains as well as 3D does.