Intel would be proud that their 8-core platform has been overclocked to 6GHz by some overclockers on XtremeSystems forum.
All I can say is, wow! Those 8-cores at 6GHz gives you a total of 48GHz of processing power.
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Overclockers Push 8-Core Skulltrail to 6GHz
Intel, Processors 1 Comment »Intel’s Core 2 Extreme X7900 In The Wild
Intel, Processors No Comments »Intel and AMD both seem to be evolving pretty well, with faster processors coming out every few months. The latest high end laptop processor from Intel was spotted by Techware Labs, they were able to throw it in a computer and do some bookmarks on it.
This isn’t that interesting, we all know what to expect, [...]
Intel’s Penryn to Reach 4GHz
Intel, Processors No Comments »Intel’s Penryn offering will be quite enticing to those in the know about technology. According to a Softpedia article, Intel said that the Penryn class may reach beyond 4GHz. Amazing.
Intel is really destroying AMD and the Penryn processors are no joke, they are 45nm parts and are very good at power management and speed. AMD’s [...]
AMD Starts Website Against Intel
AMD, Intel, Processors No Comments »“AMD Break Free” is a new site that AMD just opened. When you go to this site you get a splash screen that says “European Commission Reveals the Truth About Intel.” This seems to be a campaign against Intel regarding a “monopoly.”Now I don’t know enough about the hard numbers to say whether or not [...]
2.33GHz Intel Wolfdale Gets Benchmarked
Core 2 Duo, Intel, Processors 1 Comment »This upcoming Intel processor won’t be out for another few months but HKEPC got a hold of one and benchmarked it.
The Wolfdale chip itself features a 2.33GHz clock speed with 6MB L2 cache and a 1333MHz FSB. Specs sound pretty amazing and the performance isn’t exactly a revolution in most tests however isn’t any slouch.
Many [...]
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Overclocked to 5.13GHz
Intel, Processors, Quad-Core No Comments »Truly an amazing feat. A QX6850 has been overclocked to an astonishing 5133MHz using a EVGA 680i motherboard.
This clock speed was accomplished using liquid nitrogen cooling and bumping the voltage to 1.65v.
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Pentium 4 at 8.18GHz
Intel, Processors No Comments »OC Team Italy has successfully overclocked a Pentium 4 631 to 8.18GHz. OH MY! Since the multipliers are locked on this processor they had to bump the FSB all the way up to 545MHz. A 173% overclock.
This is pretty amazing, I just wonder what they used to cool it. I am always fascinated by overclockers, [...]
Intel Metro Laptop Video
Intel, Notebooks, Video No Comments »Everyone has seen Intel’s cool Metro concept design, its pretty gosh darn cool but here is a video of it:
[via Gizmodo]