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Overclockers Push 8-core Skulltrail To 6 GHz: Dual-socket Overclocking Confirmed

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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.

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mi1ez 21/04/2008 14:57
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Quote :"Vince" was able to run all eight cores at 6006 MHz - or a total of 48 GHz of processing horsepower.


How does this equate to 48GHz of processing power?

Come on Theo!

spuddyt 21/04/2008 16:09
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6x8 = 48
not that there would ever be an app that could USE that....

mofnet 21/04/2008 21:47
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of course there is, i use one everyday.. lightwave by newtek, it can utilise 16 threads out of the box.. and renderers can use as much power as you can throw at them and then some... look up raytracing and radiosity and you'll see what i'm talking about...

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