8199.5 MHz. That’s pretty bloody fast for a single core processor to pushed up to. A guy buy the name of TiN from XtremeLabs has achieved such a feat by pushing an old single-core Intel Celeron D 347 right up to almost 8.2GHz (the standard clock speed is just 3.06 GHz) to break the new speed record by just 16.8MHz.
TiN achieved such speeds thanks to a DFI LanParty UT P35 motherboard, OCZ RAM and a custom-made liquid nitrogen CPU cooler. He also apparently heated the processor up to 200°C to remove the integrated heat spreader attached to the chip. Unfortunately while huge clock speeds were achieved, no comparisons to other processors were made. I’m really interested to see how this CPU would perform in comparison to a top-of-the-line Intel Core i7 or i5 CPU.
Check out some nice pics of the process in the source link below.
