05/14/2009 Stress test. This is with Intel turbo boost on.
What back peddle? You claimed you had 8 cores... I merely pointed out truthfully that you don't. You have only four and that motherboard does not support eight. You and your machine may be fooled into thinking there are eight but that is because of time splitting one into to two.... or four into eight. The one I see backpeddling is you. I suspect others who are familiar with how the Intel i7 works are in agreement with me, not you.
And where is the upgrade path with that monitor.
I don't anticipate upgrading a monitor that is cutting edge... so much that no one else is selling one of this configuration, brightness, resolution, backlight system, etc, yet. The iMac, as currently configured will display to both the 27" built in and an external 30" 2560 x 1600 display either mirrored or as a separate screen.
Upgrade path for the processor? Drop in a 6 core whenever I want.
The i7 in the iMac is socketed too... and you can drop in a 6 core just as easily as well. People have upgraded other Macs by processor replacements in the past. They are not difficult to open.
Doing it your way with your pretty little lists and stuff, trying to inflate my price, 6 months after the fact, is what is screwing you up.
I'm not screwed up nor did I "try to inflate" your prices... I priced what I found today... and took the lowest I found. Given the state of the economy, I would suspect that six months ago, the prices would have been higher. That's it. You merely tossed out a price. You claimed you paid $250 for an i7 that we would have to pay $1000 for. prove that. I listed exactly what came up on Google. Nor did I make them up as I went along. I matched the specs you provided as best as I could, given the limited information you provided, and merely added what the iMac already included in the base 27" iMac model to meet the challenge criteria.
Your BestBuy anecdote is meaningless... you laugh at what you laugh at which is weird. For my part, I point and laugh at you. You look foolish. So what. I don't believe you did that and I don't believe you were shadowed by the "store's Mac geek throughout the store." I really don't believe you found an Intel i7 processor that would clock to 3.8GHz for $250 six months ago...
You do know that I can turn off hyperthreading in the bios, which is what I did months ago during initial OCing. I’ve seen my four cores. I actually studied the chip before buying. Imagine that! This is just another example of you putting words in someone’s mouth so you can knock them down. But that’s what you do. The six core will be a socket 1366 part, won’t fit the iMac as far as I know. My wife saw me laugh in the store...LOL. Now why does this look like mom and dad defending their son after he said something stupid on the internet. Can’t the guy defend what he said without you two guys? I don’t mind the tag teaming, it’s actually funny. And the guys watching this know the act also. I’ve watched the act for years. As for the chip, 3.8 is easy for a C0 stepping on a good mobo, the D0 stepping which came out later is even faster. Ask anyone. I have no reason to lie.
You do know the fastest desktop i7 costs around a grand, right? It runs at 3.3, right? So what do you think Intel would charge for an i7 at 3.8? This is why hardware enthusiasts oc. As for being familiar with an i7...I own one. Do you? Didn’t think so.
05/14/2009 Stress test. This is with Intel turbo boost on.
I just looked back and it was an i7 920, and it could have sold for around $250. But it was a 2.66 GHz part running 130W. I really hope there is seriously good cooling involved because 3.8 GHz is absolutely pushing the limit on a 920.
BTW, the QPI on the 920 only has a 4.8 GT/s rate vs. 6.4 on the two high-end i7s and the several higher Xeons. So much for that amazing bandwidth.