Can I easily overclock a Core i7-920 to match i7-965 performance?

The 920 should reach 3.7-3.8GHz fairly easily, and maybe 4 with some work. The 965 should also reach 3.8 pretty easily, 4 with a little more effort, and probably 4.2-4.3 with a bit more work. So the 965 will go a bit higher, but not a lot, and both will be extremely fast when overclocked.

Well if you mean stock performance you should be able to get pretty close. But remember that the i965 has a 6.4GT QPi where as the i920 has a 4.8GT QPI so it wont always reach the exact potential.

But 3.2GHz should be easily doable.

I just read this 10 minutes ago.


http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3471

yeah thats like getting an e8400 and overclocking it to e8500 specs. i mean even e2180's can do that..

too easy to get the 920 to 965's level.

Yes, u can easily overclock to beat i7-965 performance,
check this site out...

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2335840,00.a...