like I said before, I'll run some numbers once I go back to work in a couple weeks.
well, I OCed my CPU on Wednesday (still haven't installed the IX yet, but wanted to test the CPU to see what it is capable of). stock boost is 3.8. I pushed it to 4.5 for a 19% OC. yesterday I purposely left the PC alone and let it run for a full day on the OC - I hit 125k ppd. my avg (when not using the PC) was about 95k prior to the OC, so this is an increase of 31.5% ppd. also, since this is a fairly mild OC for sandy bridge, my voltages are still fairly low at 1.27 so my power consumption should not be affected (too) much (my CPU core temps went up about 5-8C). note: this is with the CPU at 90% and both GPUs running - not solely the CPU at 100%. I haven't run any benchmarks yet to test stability, but I've had F@H running 24/7. so far everything works fine with no crashes.