Monday, April 27th 2009
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Core i7 975 XE Breaks 5 GHz Barrier, With Air Cooling
Intel's newest high-end processor, the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition is gearing up for launch later this year, on course of which, it already passed a milestone. Xtreme Systems Forums member PcCI2iminal scored one with overclocking a Core i7 975 XE D0 stepping chip past the 5 GHz mark, 5015 MHz to be precise using only air cooling for the processor, with an ambient temperature of 20 °C as claimed by the overclocker. Its cooling was care of a Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120. Its partners in crime were Biostar TPower X58 motherboard, and Corsair Dominator DDR3-1866 memory. At that speed, the setup made it through a CPU-Z validation. PcCI2iminal was further able to put the chip through SuperPi 1M at a speed of 4750 MHz, where its crunch time was measured 8.672 seconds. For more pictures and screenshots, head over to the thread at Xtreme Systems.
53 Comments on Core i7 975 XE Breaks 5 GHz Barrier, With Air Cooling
I wont belive it till i see more benchmarks
Although this makes my panties wet, I still think the reality is most people won't see that kind of overclock. Still though, dayumn
is it worth getting the d0?
if i could afford one id do it fuck having good meals ill survive on bread and water to get one
So when exactly is "shortly"?
My friends PH II 940 hits 4.3 same setup, and at 1.5 V, and ive seen one hit 4.6 on pretty much the same, suicide @ 4.8 on air @ PHII, so, when every one is hitting 4.2 on theese, THEN im impressed, dont say this is a awesome feat, just that i want more proof before im blown away by the 975 XE
Even then, the objective behind Istanbul is parallelism, not that a numerically high count of cores makes it better in the client platform. Again, there is no 6-core client CPU from AMD, in the foreseeable future.