Overclocking Intel's Core i7 920

Written by Richard Swinburne

November 6, 2008 | 08:57

Tags: #920 #benchmark #bios #by #core #easy #eclipse #guide #i7 #i7-920 #overclocking #p6t #performance #result #step

Companies: #asus #intel #msi #test

Far Cry 2

Publisher: Ubisoft

Far Cry 2 is the latest first person shooter from Ubisoft, and while it continues the Far Cry franchise that Crytek started in 2004, this game is built on its own in-house engine and has no association - other than its name - to anything Crytek has worked on or is working on now. We used a retail version of the game and the in-built gameplay demo set to High-Very High settings under DirectX 10.

Far Cry 2

1680x1050 0AA 0AF, Very High Settings

  • Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (4x3.2GHz, 1,600MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (4x3.2GHz, 1,600MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9650 (4x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9550 (4x2.83GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9450 (4x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • Core 2 Duo E8500 (2x3.16GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9650 (4x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • Core 2 Duo E8500 (2x3.16GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9550 (4x2.83GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • Core 2 Quad Q9450 (4x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.66GHz, 1,066MHz FSB, DDR2)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.66GHz, 1,066MHz FSB, DDR3)
  • AMD Phenom X4 9950 BE (4x2.6GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Core i7 920 OC (4x4GHz, 1,600MHz DDR3, 3.6GHz QPI)
  • Core i7 965 (4x3.2GHz, Turbo disabled, SMT enabled)
  • AMD Phenom X4 9850 BE (4x2.5GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Core i7 965 (4x3.2GHz, 6.4GHz QPI, SMT disabled)
  • Core i7 965 (4x3.2GHz, 6.4GHz QPI, SMT enabled)
  • AMD Phenom X4 9750 (4x2.4GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
  • Core i7 965 (4x3.2GHz, Dual Channel, SMT enabled)
  • Core i7 965 (4x3.2GHz, 4.8GHz QPI, SMT enabled)
  • Core i7 940 (4x2.93GHz, 6.4GHz QPI, SMT enabled)
  • Core i7 920 (4x2.66GHz, 6.4GHz QPI, SMT enabled)
  • Core i7 965 (4x3.2GHz, Single Channel, SMT enabled)
    • 66.5
    • 66.3
    • 65.3
    • 65.2
    • 64.5
    • 64.2
    • 62.4
    • 60.4
    • 60.1
    • 59.4
    • 59.3
    • 58.4
    • 58.3
    • 58.1
    • 55.6
    • 55.6
    • 55.5
    • 55.4
    • 55.2
    • 54.3
    • 53.1
    • 52.5
    • 52.4
    • 51.6
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Frames Per Second - higher is better
  • FPS

Again, even on another motherboard, we're seeing poor performance in Far Cry 2, so at least we can rule out the motherboard and BIOS as a factor in this performance anomaly. The extra GHz and memory bandwidth generates a few FPS but not much - we suspect this is a driver issue, but neither Intel or Nvidia has commented to us about it yet.
Discuss this in the forums
YouTube logo
MSI MPG Velox 100R Chassis Review

October 14 2021 | 15:04