You are just fishing for compliments aren't you?
At first I was: ZOMGWTF, a 6 core CPU, this is going to hurt.
But then I was: Mmm. Ok?
According to this: PCmark, Cinebench
My little i7 920 remains faster than any stock CPU that doesn't cost a thousand pounds. *cough980cough*
My primary interest is also rendering, which is where I expected any 6 core CPU to run circles around, however Cinebench also rendered faster???
And that's with the 4Ghz overcloak. I know that the computer is perfectly stable at 4.2 as well but I just happen to like round numbers.
Well my overclock is different because I had to lower some voltages and lower the FSB settings due to an overheating issue, im thinking my motherboard is defective, was reaching 127F(limit is 130F im told) on the northbridge at normal voltages and speeds, so if I wanna overclock it I have to lower the FSB and increase the CPU multiplier, but doing that also lowers the HT/NB speeds and ram speed, IF I could increase the FSB speed then im guessing the bench results would be higher..
I come to that conclusion about the motherboard being defective only because I know someone thats overclocking the living crap out of the same motherboard I have(2800NB clock/2500HT clock, and some ungodly 350ish FSB) but his motherboard NB is still steady at 113F...
I dont feel like taking the motherboard BACK OUT to take off the heat pipe heat sinks , apply thermal paste and put everything back on tighter, ill do it eventually..
Currently I have it back down to 3.5ghz, everything else the same, it still gets a 6.0ish Cinebench score, im also actually thinking about going back to a socket AM2+ motherboard that can run this same CPU with a BIOS update..