Las Vegas (NV) - When Intel released its Skulltrail platform, the main focus of the platform was on overclocking capabilities. Dual-socket motherboards traditionally have not been a prime target for overclocking, and so this was an interesting proposition from Intel. 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.
Gulp!
Day late and a Dollar short, story of my life
Thats some EXTREEEEME grammar!
I wouldn't say that this means intel is ahead of the game, due to the insanely high clock voltage and cooling method. I would imagine that an AMD Phenom with the same voltage and cooling could be atleast clocked to 5GHZ+ , which would result in an overclock of about 2.8ghz. The cooling and voltage add about 2ghz of OC potential, with normal cooling the cpu can only be OCed by about 800mhz.
now run cinebench 10
i bet that guy would get like 40,000
btw, TFBundy he's talkin abt just the power. If you run a pure multithreaded application, that would run nearly as fast as a 48GHz single core. Dont be so naive. (well that is pseudo-theoretically, it will probably scale about 75%-80% but not more,)
As I said, Hz != measure of processing power, Hz = measure of FREQUENCY; & you can't add frequency like that. If I play A4 at 440Hz, then get another piano to play A4 at 440Hz, we don't suddenly get A5@880Hz - we still have A4. just louder.
If you were using gigaflops and said "I have one core at x, so 4 cores give me 4x" that's all fine and dandy, but using frequency like that is just a bit special.