E8600 Overclock Record Broken, 6.70 GHz a Reality

[maroon1]

Andre Yang, a civil engineer doing his PhD. in the US obtained a high-performing Core 2 Duo E8600 processor, he succeeded in overclocking this chip to a stellar 6.70 GHz clock-speed (FSB 672.16 x 10.0). The processor uses liquid-nitrogen (LN2) cooling and surprisingly this processor was overclocked on a motherboard with the Intel X48 chipset, the ASUS Rampage Extreme when previous record-holders across several recent processors made use of either the Intel P35 or P45-based motherboards.

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[Preacher]

That's crazy, 672 FSB holy moly.

 

[veg1992]

Whats the voltage reading? Didn't come up?!

But very nice.. man I want to overclock a Core Architecture processor, its so satisfying!!

All I need is a sponsor to buy LN2 and a lucky chip with a low VID and I could do crazy stuff like that.

 

[Drizzt]

He didn't disable a core???
Don't people usually disable a core when running these insane clocks?

 

[Ric0h]

I am curious, but all this crazy overclocks are just for fun?

Or are they for some type of research to get better chips in the future?

 

[veg1992]

Just to beat records

Once you get sponsored (if you I should say) they'll buy top of the line stuff, and extreme overclocking stuff, then the overclocker does his/her thing