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- Dec 25, 2004
I'm planning on building an SR-2 Classified system for folding@home work. I'm trying to find out how overclockable the Westmere Xeons are. I know with the i7 920/930/950 CPUs, you are going to top out around 3.8 - 4.2 Ghz folding stable.
The higher I can clock them, the more points I can get. But if the top end is only a few hundred Mhz between the cheapest and the most expensive, I'll be getting the $600 chips, not the $1700 ones.
I do know the L chips are 40-60W, the E are 80W, and the X are 95-130W.
Also, I'm probably looking at 3 months between buying the first CPU and the second.
Thanks!
The higher I can clock them, the more points I can get. But if the top end is only a few hundred Mhz between the cheapest and the most expensive, I'll be getting the $600 chips, not the $1700 ones.
I do know the L chips are 40-60W, the E are 80W, and the X are 95-130W.
Also, I'm probably looking at 3 months between buying the first CPU and the second.
Thanks!