Quote Originally Posted by njitjk68 View Post
As you can see, the 10% and 20% overclock is a scam as Turbo mode will do more than that. ~200 more MHz for $50 - (-$49) = $99 may or may not be worth it to you. My opinion would be no and to just let Turbo mode do it for you, as these chips are beasts, even at stock, for pretty much any game out now and for a while to come.
Maybe. My guess is when they overclock they leave turbo mode on, so you could get a 10% overclock and turbo mode will still stack on top of that.

In most cases that's cool, but if you overclock too high and don't turn that off, the multiplier goes up by 1 in turbo mode. So you could have your system overclocked to 4ghz which may be at your limit, then all of a sudden your turbo mode kicks in and you start running at 4.2ghz and all hell breaks loose.

But yeah, I would save yourself the money and OC it yourself.

Also it should be noted that the new i7's don't use FSB anymore so when overclocking you adjust the BCLK (base clock). Doing so affects the QPI and memory controller, which for high overclocks means voltage adjustments. But you can overclock the i7 920 by ~30% and never touch voltage.