Intel Core i7 940 Review

I bought the 920 simply because the benchmarks weren't showing any real performance boosts in games, which is the only thing I built the machine for. By not going with the more expensive CPUs I was able to get a third GTX280. I have the Asus Rampage II though so I can get more out of the chip when and if games will benefit from it, or even go to the 965 if it ever makes any sense to do so.

From what I read the 920 was overclocked at a higher base clock speed(190MHz) than the 940 (170)MHz), is it any wonder that the 920 overclocked at a higher speed. To be fair the 940 and the 920 should have been run at the same base clock speed otherwise you will get perhaps the results that you want rather than competitive results. This would have shown what the locked multiplier actually does when the base clock has been raised equaly to each CPU. In my opinion the results in this article are tainted.