Core i7 975 XE Breaks 5 GHz Barrier, With Air Cooling
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Core i7 975 XE Breaks 5 GHz Barrier, With Air Cooling
Intel's newest high-end processor, the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition is gearing up for launch later this year, on course of which, it already passed a milestone. Xtreme Systems Forums member PcCI2iminal scored one with overclocking a Core i7 975 XE D0 stepping chip part the 5 GHz mark, 5015 MHz to be precise using only air cooling for the processor, with an ambient temperature of 20 °C as claimed by the overclocker.
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The Room Temp was 20 C. It doesn't mention the processor temp though.
Probably could have pushed the overclock higher if they disabled HT and all but 1 core; it would have ran a lot cooler!
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The Room Temp was 20 C. It doesn't mention the processor temp though.
Probably could have pushed the overclock higher if they disabled HT and all but 1 core; it would have ran a lot cooler!
Cores : 4
Threads : 4
Looks disabled to me...also that's not my way of overclocking, hyperthreading was created for a reason and I doubt that turning it off will give you an overall gain in performance.
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Cores : 4
Threads : 4
Looks disabled to me...also that's not my way of overclocking, hyperthreading was created for a reason and I doubt that turning it off will give you an overall gain in performance.
Scratch that part about HT. Now I see, Core Temp reports each core is around 30 to 34 C.
I mean if the overclocker disabled all but 1 core, it probably would push the overclock higher because the processor as a whole would run faster; instead of 4 cores operating each at ~30 C, you only have 1 core.
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