[Sanmayce]

Thanks,
as for turbo CORE/BOOST AFAIK it is a complex internal tweak not only increasing CPU frequency but RAM timings and who-knows-what-else, my point is that I want to see how the CPU-RAM system responds to a particular test/program i.e. to gather stable results.

In order to feel how fundamental is sorting (I still don't get why major benchmarks lack it) here comes my newest phrase-checking package 'Dumbino', made last night it is the first (free and open-source) English phrase-checker:
http://www.sanmayce.com/Downloads/index.html#Dumbino

In a few words: MJ test Quicksort helps one understand how different CPU-RAM systems would behave on a really heavy load, by heavy I mean my current corpus of four-word-phrases (879,557,846), the MJ Quicksort test sorts 206,908,943 - in 'Dumbino' package I gave 140,222,335 phrases (after ripping the Google-books US n-gram corpus 400GB in size). Now in order to phrase-check (spell-check uses 1-grams) an entire ebook consisted of 42,208 4-gram phrases Dumbino mixes them with those 140,222,335 and resorts them, thus all familiar and unfamiliar phrases pop-up in SUB-LINEAR time!

@Neuromancer: When you have time (this year) I would like to hear your opinion on this subject (monstrous phrase-checking) which has been, is and will be in my sight for a long time.

Wanna salute all with one of my favorite video-songs ever: P!nk - Funhouse, the pianist is so joyful and charming.

[Sanmayce]

Just wanted to throw a look at x79 and it is amazing it blows houses away:
Gigabyte X79 UD3, i7-3960X 4590MHz, Quad Channel at 1020MHz at 9-11-10-28 clocks:
Sandra says for memory bandwidth 49GB/s, i.e. 4x12 (with limit 4x12.8), it simply silenced me.

The info was taken from:
http://www.ninjalane.com/reviews/mot...d3/page10.aspx

[Sanmayce]

To see how Gigabyte 990FXA UD5, AMD 1090T is positioned against the Gigabyte X79 UD3, i7-3960X from the above post:

Stock Phenom II X6 1090T 'Thuban':
Core speed 3214MHz, Bus speed 200MHz, dual channel at 803MHz at 9-9-9-28 clocks
Sandra says for Integer Memory Bandwidth: 12.54GB/s

Overclocked Phenom II X6 1090T 'Thuban':
Core speed 4125MHz, Bus speed 250MHz, dual channel at 1000MHz at 9-9-9-24 clocks
Sandra says for Integer Memory Bandwidth: 19.28GB/s

Stock i7 3960X 'Sandy Bridge-E':
Core speed 3600MHz, Bus speed 100MHz, quad channel at 800MHz at 11-11-13-28 clocks
Sandra says for Integer Memory Bandwidth: 39GB/s

Overclocked i7 3960X 'Sandy Bridge-E':
Core speed 4590MHz, Bus speed 127MHz, quad channel at 1020MHz at 9-11-10-28 clocks
Sandra says for Integer Memory Bandwidth: 49GB/s