Las Vegas (NV) – When Intel released its Skulltrail platform, the main focus of this extreme computing platform was on overclocking capabilities. Dual-socket motherboards traditionally have not been a prime target for overclocking anyway, so this was an interesting proposition from Intel anyway. Now we know that Skulltrail has lots of headroom.

Overclocking with advanced air-cooling can take Skulltrail from 3.2 GHz to 4 GHz. 4.5 GHz is reportedly manageable with a modest water-cooling system. Not surprisingly, there is a lot more capability in this platform if take an extreme Skulltrail a bit more extreme.
 
According to this forum post on XtremeSystems, one of big overclocking community sites, „Vince“ was able to run all eight cores at 6006 MHz - or a total of 48 GHz of processing horsepower. Eight cores clocked at 6 GHz is something we didn't expect to see in quite some time.
 
Our congratulations not only go to Vince, but also to the Intel engineers who created a processor that can remain stable at a clock speed that is 2.8 GHz faster than the shipping clock.

Sweet

Apr 17, 2008 13:06     

Was this just a one time shot at 6 GHz or was this a stable running 6 GHz?
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Nice OC

Apr 17, 2008 13:54     

Makes me start to feel my OC to 4gz my my Q6600 is not going to be near the top much longer.
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LN2

Apr 17, 2008 14:12     

"the Intel engineers who created a processor that can remain stable at a clock speed that is 2.8 GHz faster than the shipping clock." LOL...How much liquid nitrogen did he have to use?
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Whoa

Apr 17, 2008 21:35     

If its not so that he would have to use a lot more but its probably not so whatever. Also think nitrogen not enough maybe liquid helium or something more colder even though its usually ok sometimes or not.
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It might not be "used" at 6 GHz, but if a CPU and a...

Apr 18, 2008 00:53     

It might not be "used" at 6 GHz, but if a CPU and a company proves able to reach that, a nice boost in advertising is expected.
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