Overclocking Core i7: Power Versus Performance
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Benchmark Results: Games
Since Crysis depends a lot on the graphics card’s performance, it doesn’t show substantial benefits with a highly overclocked Core i7 processor. Going up to 3.66 GHz makes sense, while 4.0 GHz provides hardly any incremental benefit.
Unreal Tournament 3 scales better with increasing processor clock speed.
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