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That comment of mine actually contains our best estimate currently.
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Who said SB could run 5.0 GHz 24/7 on air? There were a lot of places saying it reached that for benching (indeed it's difficult to find one that won't do at least 5.0), but for 24/7 in my experience, ~4.5-4.6v was the norm with ~1.3v. Anybody saying 5.0 on SB 24/7 would be the norm were way over-inflating their numbers.
(Reference.)chew* said:I would not go as far as to say cherry picked. I blind pulled with no windows testing 24 chips based on there VID, the 4th chip we tested (note not a pretested ever chip ) did 8.4
We still had twenty chips left to try out but really didn't care after the 4th one.......
On the Negative side: I don't want to kill the mood but we heard the same thing about sandy bridge and only 20% of the chip owners could get past 4.8ghz even with a noctua NH-D14, while i managed to get a 5.0ghz chip, that's all it can do on air, many of the poor souls who dropped a ton of money in nice boards and memory wanting to hit 5.0ghz ended up with 4.5ghz and higher than average voltages. To be garanteed anywhere near 5.0ghz on air and consider it do-able by the majority the overhead on a random chip(s) needs to be 5.5-5.7ghz on air, or 5.5ghz on the stock cooler. Sorry i bought into a lot of hype before i just don't want anyone else dropping money in something and being disappointed when i can relate how it feels when you realize you just can't do what they did because "Every chip is different".
Interesting note - they only tested four chips before getting the 8.4 validation. I like the last sentence:
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I think you mean Rampage = high end intel . Gene+Formula+Extreme are the board types