Overclocking Performance

Without resorting to anything more than extreme than air-cooling, we were able to overclock the Core i7 980X Extreme past 30% to very remarkable 4.32GHz. This was achieved past increasing the voltage to ane.345v, the base clock to 160MHz, and the multiplier to x27. Cooling the animate being was the Prolimatech Mega Shadow, while the motherboard of option was our yr and a one-half quondam Asus P6T Deluxe.

Overclocking the Intel Core i7 980X processor to 4.32GHz immune for a 14% performance increase when compared to the default iii.33GHz configuration. This took the completion time of the MonteCarlo spreadsheet test from 8.56 to just seven.34 seconds. The chip was 44% faster than the Core i7 975 EE, 48% faster than the Cadre i7 950, 55% faster than the Cadre i7 920 and a whopping 72% faster than AMD's flagship Phenom II X4 965.

Far Cry two also produced steady gains when overclocking from iii.33GHz to 4.32GHz, every bit the 1024x768 resolution performance was increased by 10%. Although the Intel Cadre i7 980X Extreme was also faster than every other processor tested at 1920x1200, hither the difference was much less noticeable.

TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress saw an impressive 17% performance increase when overclocking the Intel Core i7 980X Extreme processor to 4.32GHz, improving the conversion time from six:44 to just 5:34 minutes. This is about 42% faster than information technology took the Core i7 920 to complete the aforementioned task, 34% faster than the Core i7 950 and 27% faster than the 975 EE.