Originally Posted by truehighroller1 (Post 1044946)

So is Tom's Hardware right about the chips throttling them selves back after they reach the 130Watt mark if it isn't an extreme model?? If this is true then I say F intel and I shall not buy one until they get that issue resolved or some one figures out how to get around the drawback because I have never spent $1000 on a chip and I never will.....

Originally Posted by truehighroller1 (Post 1044958)

Any one?? I would think right now this would be all the talk.. If this is true then what will be the limit on your over clocks??

Originally Posted by Sasqui (Post 1044982)

Yea, just reading that here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...em,2057-7.html

"Apparently, Intel has realized that the good overclocking potential of its processors has led ambitious users to choose less expensive models, relegating the faster (and more expensive) CPUs to the sidelines."

Let's hope some clever engineers at Gigabyte or ASUS, or whereever find a way to circumvent the "hard-wired" limit.

Originally Posted by Sasqui (Post 1044982)

Yea, just reading that here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...em,2057-7.html

"Apparently, Intel has realized that the good overclocking potential of its processors has led ambitious users to choose less expensive models, relegating the faster (and more expensive) CPUs to the sidelines."

Let's hope some clever engineers at Gigabyte or ASUS, or whereever find a way to circumvent the "hard-wired" limit.

Originally Posted by DarkMatter (Post 1044937)

Doing much better on this reviews than it did in the previews, especially on games. It's faster clock for clock now at least AND did you saw this?

http://www.guru3d.com/article/intel-...-965-review/18

3-way GTX280 SLI on i7 almost tripling performance of 3-way SLI on Core2!!

Originally Posted by jyoung75 (Post 1045016)

Some very interesting quotes from the tomshardware article http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...alem,2057.html. Nehalem performance is better than I expected, though I suspect overclockers are gonna boycott this processor due to the hardwired limits on overclocking:(

"In our benchmark suite, the Corei7 is 25% faster clock-for-clock than the Core 2."

"The Core i7 is going to leave Intel's rival AMD lagging even further behind. Put bluntly, you'd need two and a half Phenom X4 processors to compete with Intel's current Core i7 flagship model. They messed up on this part take out the Phenom X4 part and it is more realistic. The guy who wrote the article has fixed this error now.

"Overclockers shouldn't get their hopes up though: all standard models are equipped with an overclocking lock."

"Thus, it is entirely possible that a lower model Core i7 may offer excellent overclocking potential, but it will be constrained by the Overspeed Protection feature when its power dissipation triggers it. Obviously, Intel wants to prevent customers from buying an inexpensive processor and then overclocking it to very high or even extreme levels. Apparently, Intel has realized that the good overclocking potential of its processors has led ambitious users to choose less expensive models, relegating the faster (and more expensive) CPUs to the sidelines."

Originally Posted by Tatty_One (Post 1044880)

.....I already have good DDR3 so at least i dont need to worry about that.

Originally Posted by truehighroller1 (Post 1044992)

Thank you some one paying attention lol. Right, this IMO will make or break the deal for me because I am not buying a piece o shiat that is limited by the power it consumes. Talk about a joke... I will not spend $1000 to be able to go over 130Watts "or get a good overclock". I am also wondering if this is true,, then what would that option limit the over clock to ??

Originally Posted by Sasqui (Post 1045037)

Well they talk about the lower end models that draw 60wat stock, then you've got a theoretical 70w over overhead to reach the 130w limit.

...and like I said "Let's hope some clever engineers at Gigabyte or ASUS, or whereever find a way to circumvent the "hard-wired" limit."

If they can't then gone are the days where you can take a $200 CPU and get $1000+ worth of power out of it :mad:

Originally Posted by oily_17 (Post 1045035)

Yeah I was thinking of re-using my DDR3 as well but...



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My memory runs 1.8V+, so do we have to worry about this ? I seen this mentioned before but really never looked into it much.