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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11166 |   GX-Brandon (252) Jul 17, 2006 - 12:05 am
| | Scary part is those numbers are running with the P5W DH's Turbo Mode disabled. I know in the past the Turbo setting has brought a couple of percentage points in added performance. But yes, I have been experimenting with the FSB and Core 2 is definitely scaling well so far. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11143 | GX-Brandon (252) Jul 15, 2006 - 01:43 am » Edited on Jul 15, 2006 - 04:04 am
| I agree with deimos, if you saw our CPU scaling articles with GeForce 7800 GTX, you saw a 3500+ keeping up with an FX-57 one year ago:
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/athlon_64_geforce_7800_gtx_scaling/
If you look through our archives you'll find similar scaling articles for GeForce 6 generation, FX, etc, all the way back to the GeForce 2/3 IIRC, so it's not like this is some new occurance that we haven't documented. And if you check out our benchmarks with Pacific Fighters you'll find margins of 20%+ at 16x12, so it's not like there aren't cases of that out there. Also remember that many of Intel's press demos at IDF and other events were conducted with CrossFire rigs at 16x12, with 2 X1900 XTX's running in CrossFire at that res you're not nearly as GPU-bound as if you would be if you were running with just 1 card.
EDIT: What I really don't get about the hardocp review is how they suggest they're doing anything different than other sites. You can go back to our CPU reviews from last year or before that to see we ran a mixture of high-res and low-res testing. We've been showing for quite awhile that the slower CPUs run just as fast as the latest and greatest at 16x12, as you're obviously GPU-bound at that setting. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11143 | GX-Brandon (252) Jul 14, 2006 - 03:07 pm
| At the time I wrote that piece I saw Newegg.com selling the Core 2 Extreme for $1,300, listed as "in stock". You can see my news post about it on this site in fact.
Newegg has since removed that entry from their site, my guess is Intel has asked them to hold sales until the launch day 2 weeks from now. Flag this | Edit this post |
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