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Core i7 Overclocking and Graphics Performance Update

By Vijay Anand - 5 Nov 2008

Results - SYSmark 2007 Preview v1.04

Results - SYSmark 2007 Preview v1.04

SYSmark 2007 is perhaps the closest to real-world multi-tasking usage one can get and looking through the various workloads it's clear that the clock speed advantages in the 3D content creation workload scaled the most with the higher clock frequencies. For a 20% overclock, the actual performance benefit was a cool 18%. On the other end of the scale, video content creation was hardly benefiting from the overclocked frequencies which is quite unlike the nature of such workloads. On an overall perspective, gains were on average 10%. As detailed in our main review, you're better off disabling HyperThreading in everyday usage.

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