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Core i7 975 chip hits over 5ghz on air cooling!

By Justin Robinson
09:51 Apr 28, 2009 | 15 Comments
Tags: Core | i7 | 975 | overclocking

Well slap my nipples and call me Harry - Intel's Nehalem CPU rocks the clocks!

For too long have we lusted after incredibly high overclocks without the need for extreme cooling, and Core i7 has done that for a decent while, but now it does a whole lot more.

The Nehalem 975 chip is a cherry-picked CPU, the best of an already great processor that is guaranteed to clock well at stock levels, but when overclocking these babies you've an excellent chance of reaching the limits of the architecture.

Thanks to the intrepid folks over at XtremeSystems this has been done - they reached just over 5GHz on only a Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme 1366 cooler!

Of course, this wasn't very stable and only ran long enough to nab a screenshot, but they did manage to eke out a SuperPi run at 4750MHz.

While we sit around nervously anticipating our own chip to play with, head over to the thread at XtremeSystems to read more, and the initial heads-up via Tweaktown.

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15 Comments

nesquick Apr 28, 2009 11:01 AM	This Is Madness!!!
RaRaDawg Apr 28, 2009 11:18 AM	OMFG! WOW LOL! AWESOME NO WORDS!
LordBug Apr 28, 2009 12:51 PM	Actually RRD, you just used three abbreviations and three words. Bah hah, bah hah. :)~
Lazzarus2nd Apr 28, 2009 3:03 PM	Actually, actually LB, he used 4 words, one initialism and one acronym. :P
Krispy89 Apr 28, 2009 3:06 PM	5 ghz WITH AIR COOLING!?! This is indeed madness. This might become standard on all new pc's in about roughly 5 years time. Who knows, maybe sooner.
LordBug Apr 28, 2009 3:18 PM	Shit, you're right Lazz. But going for the initialism slant, jeez you're a bit of a smartarse. :P
MrPodgy Apr 28, 2009 3:40 PM	water cool the sucker and we can see what this baby has!!! i'm really curious to see what it can do on submerged also and dice.
TheFrunj Apr 28, 2009 4:29 PM	Podgy, you want to see what it can do while submerged? It's gonna drown! Or make a very loud pop noise. http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k151/cburn25/42prosessor1.jpg -JR
.:Cyb3rGlitch:. Apr 28, 2009 6:04 PM	I personally only consider overclocks which are stable. Great achievement nonetheless.
nesquick Apr 28, 2009 6:44 PM	Justin can you get one of these D0 chips and see what you can get it to :D
Tezlin Apr 28, 2009 7:35 PM	Oh my.
TheFrunj Apr 28, 2009 9:10 PM	nesquick, I'm trying! Intel are getting me one, but I don't have an ETA as of when - really excited to get to play with it though ^-^ -JR
t8y Apr 29, 2009 11:28 AM	plenty of places selling the Xeon w3520, hint hint...
N3M3SiS Apr 29, 2009 3:12 PM	Wowzers, while not completely stable that is still very impressive! Would the w3520 be an even more superior chip?
nesquick Apr 29, 2009 5:32 PM	theres people with w3520's on OCAU with 4.2-4.3ghz on close to stock vcore, I am actually considering getting one.

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