Core i7 overclocked to 4.2GHz easily
Because Core i7 Extreme has multiplier unlocked, so overclockers can easily OC to 4.2GHz by pulling up the multiplier. But like Phenom, the bus speed can not boost a lot. So we’d better drop our thought, they are not Core 2 anymore, so we may not have chance to see 500MHz+ bus speed.
If you read the everest benchmark chart and 3Dmark Vantage, the performance looks quite impressive.
Source: OC.com.tw
October 12th, 2008 at 2:12 am
VCore is absurd; too high! O_o
October 12th, 2008 at 2:26 am
How do you know?
the Vcore for i7 intels could be much higher than Core 2’s
October 12th, 2008 at 3:25 am
At 1.72V, r u kidding?
October 12th, 2008 at 11:33 am
the bus speed is running at 200mhz ????????? am I missing something…. looks like my ddr1 memory is coming back in fashion …..
October 12th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Easily on Extreme version but what about main-stream Ci7 with multiplier locked ?
October 13th, 2008 at 11:47 am
The Vcore seems way too high for me too. It looks more like a suicide run under LN2, just enough to raise the vcore and get it running at 4.2GHz.
Interesting nonetheless, but those are benchmarks, meaningless numbers to me. Where are the real life tests? Test video conversations between a Core 2 Quad Q9xxx and the i7. That’s what I want to see, a comparison between the current generation quad-core and what is coming up.
I want to see how much of an performance increase will the i7 bring with the integrated memory controller.
October 14th, 2008 at 12:32 am
..easily? LOL
Than was Deneb rev. C1 easily at 1.68V at 4GHz…
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:31 pm
The voltage does seem a little silly, but about the bus speed - I think with the new X58 chipset there’s a totally new bus design. There’s something called a umm.. quicklink or something? And that runs at ~4000-6500MHz inbetween the RAM and CPU, much like AMD’s hypertransport. I think they’ve got rid of the northbridge to do this, so it’s just the RAM & CPU on the superlink thing connected to the video card etc. on the Southbridge. My facts are probably a little off though. Also, we’re moving to tri-channel memory, so 3GB & 6GB configurations will be seen soon..
Just an extra thought, maybe the superlink crap is built into the main chip; explaining the high volts. Imagine a CPU with an inbuilt NB? I think i’m mostly correct on all this but I wouldn’t quote me.. go scan google ;).