AMD's Upcoming Phenom II X2 555 BE Overclocked to 6.6GHz

Silicon Madness - The hardware craze

Complete with Youtube video of the feat,
which was made possible with the help of some liquid nitrogen(LN2). 6.6GHz, unlocked to quad-core.

http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009 [...] 55-be.html

If its a new revision im not at all surprised, one of the early massive overclockings of a PII was bringing a PII 940 up to 6.8GHz, the new stepping should improve leakage and therefore stability, plus getting 2 cores stable is easier than all 4, however this is all only really possible because the current AMD line up does not suffer from a cold bug.
http://blogs.amd.com/patmoorhead/2 [...] as-desert/

So.... we got another Phenom II quad to 6.6Ghz. Is there any significance to this?

I wonder how many home users have LN2 coolng on their rigs ? I'm guessing its a big fat zero.

I wish people would stick to "real world" practical cooling solutions that doesnt require BOC to turn up with a tanker everytime someone fancied overclocking their new CPU

Yeah it's a bit like car racing, NASCAR etc
Heavily modified cars racing, winner isn't necessarily the best on the actual road, but the event/competition is still cool.

But anywho, love the LN2 benches, but I wish more sites had 'fastest on air'. Often when I look for new processors I try to hunt down daily overclocks to see what I might be able to push.