Originally Posted by trig

are you trying to be funny?

i doubt that's real, and if it is legit, my e8400 broke 10.2 seconds on the same test, on air...lolz

No it is completely legit. Its a bench made by Neil Breems (Brimzu) a respected overclocker. In case you did not know. Anyway you can look it up here

And yes I was joking because 6Ghz was on LN2. :D

Anyway my point was that a I750 gives a little more bang for the same money. Or I read the BT benches wrong in the article. So cheap has nothing to do with it. I then compared some basic components. And there was not much difference. Then I thought Bindi did not understand my post and I tried to explain it but..

well... :(

Because your Tyan board is a workstation-server using specific software. We always try to test with what people generally use, not specific scenarios, working to budgets not core-e-peen.

Thats understandable. But don't you want to know what Adobe Premiere does with dual and quad cores? aah never mind. I am just curious.

For a high end cooling test, I would personally use a top-down cooler to get the heat out of the socket area also.
I don't believe a Tower cooler can cool the CPU and its socket better than any top-down cooler.

I got my Celeron 325J at 90/65nm to 4.1GHz stable with an SI-128SE and a very loud Papst 120mm fan.
All the voltage circuits were very pleased with the extreme airflow.....my ears weren't, but then again I could hear it loudly behind a closed door...

it would have to be ln2 lol...but im amazed he couldnt crack 10 or even 9 seconds with a 6.2 ghz quad...we understand what your saying, just pointing out how that doesnt come across on that post...

Great article Bindi, thanks! I think this pretty much means I'll be getting an i5 750 then. I was holding out for AMD, just in case this 965 BE C3 was something a bit more special, but it seems for not much more I could do better with Intel. Also, considering I have no need for all the PCI-E lanes and extra memory bandwidth of the 1366 platform, I think 1156 with an i5 750 is the way forward for me.

However I will probably wait for the November Buyers Guide before I start ordering bits. Can you tell me if/when the guide will be out?

Cheers

Another failure.

Originally Posted by OWNED66
Another failure.

according to what standards?

Originally Posted by WildThing
However I will probably wait for the November Buyers Guide before I start ordering bits. Can you tell me if/when the guide will be out?

Cheers

No problem!

Nov Buyers guide will not change much. Only cost of memory will shift things a little. It's due out next week (I'm starting today)

Wait, maybe I've gone insane; are the clocks/settings of the overclocked i5 and i7 not mentioned anywhere during this review?

If not, surely this is pretty relevant? :-/

It's 6 months since this review and I for one am building a system with the 965 BE with an ATI 5770. This fits my budget perfectly and looking at many reviews around the CPU is a great performer at a brilliant price.

The 7/10 is one of the lowest scores I've seen but it's good to get a balanced viewpoint I guess.