We ran our tests at default and 4.6GHz on an un-optimized Windows 7 64-Bit system. These results are just a guide line for a
similarly configured system. Your results may vary depending on your system components and testing conditions.
CPU
Cinebench
11.5
Super Pi 8M
3DMark11
Heaven Xtreme
Preset
Hard Reset
DX9
Just Cause 2
DX10
Wprime
1024
AMD FX 8350
6.95
4.36.885
9809
2041.885
80
142.54
260.832
Core i7 3970X
Default
10.22
1.59.143
10820
2070.292
100
159.21
147.779
2080.915
104.7
168.73
112.351
Physics: 12171
Core i7 3970X @
4.6GHz
13.42
1.31.697
11130
Physics: 15295
100MHz, but given the types
of benchmarks one runs with
these CPUs; a 100MHz is all you
need. We’ll take the 5.5GHz over
the 5.4GHz any day.
As far as memory
overclocking is concerned, we
couldn’t entirely be sure if the
3970X has a better IMC than
the outgoing 3960X. Reason
being, that on the board we
tested on, 2133MHz seemed
to be the limit regardless
of timings or frequency and
as such we’ll have to hold
of judgement regarding
memory overclocking until
we test this on a more refined
motherboard such as the
Rampage IV Extreme. Once
again, with the benchmarks
that one runs with such a
CPU, memory overclocking
is important, but not as
important as just sheer clock
frequency. We’d even argue
that finding the one CPU that
can operate memory reliably
(all channels) at 2,666MHz but
is limited to 5.4GHz, is going to
show lower performance all
around when compared to the
5.5GHz CPU that has its IMC
limited to 2,133MHz.
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